Swets Blackwell achieves COUNTER level 2 compliance
Swets Blackwell achieves COUNTER level 2 compliance
Swets Blackwell has announced that it is the first subscription agent member to achieve level2 compliance with COUNTER's international e-journal usage standards. Swets has signed a formal declaration of compliance with COUNTER, an international initiative launched in March 2002 designed to serve librarians,publishers and intermediaries by facilitating the recording and exchange of online usage statistics.
COUNTER's (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources)specifications included data elements already collected by SwetsWise, Swets Blackwell's Web-based modular service for the procurement, access and management of subscriptions and online information. Covering over 7,660 full-text publications from 272 publishers, SwetsWise' participation also dramatically increases the number of titles and publishers for which COUNTER-compliant usage reports are now available (www.projectCounter.org).
