We are largely guided by who is putting those URLs on their reading lists.
For copyright reasons we have all our reading lists managed centrally in
https://victoria.rl.talis.com/index.html and we have ~ ten years of
history.
In theory we could look to see who is authenticating against which parties
in OpenAthens, but I'm not sure we've ever done that.
cheers
stuart
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On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 at 07:31, Eric Lease Morgan <
00000107b9c961ae-dmarc-request_at_lists.clir.org> wrote:
> 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?
>
> --
> Eric Morgan <emorgan_at_nd.edu>
>
Received on Mon Mar 23 2026 - 15:46:59 EDT