On Mar 13, 2026, at 6:51 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nd.edu> wrote:
> How is your library collecting COUNTER reports and making decisions against them?...
To everybody who sent me examples of how COUNTER reports are being used in your work places, "Thank you!" If there is anybody else who would like to chime in, then please don't hesitate to do so.
On a similar but different note, how does one go about learning who is using the things being "COUNTed"? And even if COUNTER reports do not point to individuals, then how do you learn the characteristics of the people using your (our) very expensive subscription services? For example, do a handful of people dominate the use of a given resource? To what degree do humanities folks regularly use engineering things and vice versa? To what degree is a given resource used almost exclusively by undergraduates, while that resource used only by faculty. Etc.
In short, how does one go about learning who or the characteristics of who is using our subscriptions?
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Eric Morgan <emorgan_at_nd.edu>
Received on Mon Mar 23 2026 - 14:31:34 EDT