Sharon,

Please go to the following website to learn about the
COUNTER initiative.
http://www.projectcounter.org/

For e-journals, this is the current standards document.
http://www.projectcounter.org/code_practice.html

COUNTER-compliant statistics are the only way to go.  This
ensures your data is the same as other publishers.  The
miminum reports we expect are Journal Report 1 and
Database Report 1.

Thank you so much for asking!

Sincerely,
Linda

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:09:20 -0500
  Sharon Landers <firemom82@AOL.COM> wrote:
> Hello. I work for a publisher and we are researching the
>feasibility of providing
> usage statistics to our institutional subscribers. If
>anyone is willing and has
> the time to either post a message to this list or send
>me a direct email with
> your thoughts on what type of information you, as a
>librarian, would most like
> to receive in a usage statistics report from a
>publisher, I would greatly
> appreciate your assistance. Please include the type of
>information you need
> as well as the format in which you need to receive it.
>Any other thoughts
> would be beneficial as well. We don't currently provide
>usage statistics, but
> since we are receiving more and more requests to do so,
>we obviously want to
> provide that service if that is what our subscribers
>require.
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
>
> Sharon Landers
> firemom82@aol.com
>

Linda Wobbe
Head, Collection Development
Saint Mary's College of California
1928 Saint Mary's Road; PO Box 4290
Moraga, CA 94575-4290
(925) 631-4232; (925) 631-4229
(925) 376-6097 fax
LWobbe@stmarys-ca.edu