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Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:44:04 +0100
From: Gill CHESTER <g.chester@JISC.AC.UK>
Subject: New PALS group on Usage Statistics

> Following the Report of the Joint Funding Councils' Libraries Review Group
> (1993) the Publishers Association, the Association of Learned and
> Professional Society Publishers and JISC set up a group to discuss matters
> of mutual interest.  This group became known as Publisher And Libraries
> Solutions Committee (PALS).  In 1996 PALS meet for the first time and
> agreed to establish five working groups to review issues ranging from
> 'Fair Dealing in Electronic Content' to 'Inter Library use of Digital
> documents'.  These working groups were very successful and produced useful
> reports.  Continuing on this success, the JISC/PA group agreed to
> establish a new group to look at 'Usage Statistics' .  The group is
> chaired by Richard Gedye and is made up of representatives from UK
> academic libraries and publishers.  The aim of this group is to develop a
> code of practice for vendor based electronic journal usage statistics.
> This will include which data elements should be measured, possible report
> outputs, the measuring of remote usage of licensed products and usage via
> cache and mirrors
>
> Further details can be found at
> http://www.jisc.ac.uk/curriss/collab/c6_pub/#uswg
Copies of previous report produced by the first set of JISC/PA groups can be
found at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/curriss/collab/#c6