Add Data Type category for the Title Report in COUNTER 5 section of analytics
The Master Title Report of COUNTER 5 includes ebook and journal titles. It is difficult to use this master report in analytics without having a data type or section type option to differentiate between which titles are journals and which are ebooks. The master title report is useless in analytics without this option. Please add the data type or section type category from the COUNTER 5 Master Title Report into the Analytics Usage Report.
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Christine McEvilly
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Has there been any updates or work-arounds on this topic? I'm setting up SUSHI for the first time and certain item counts just don't seem to work in the sub reports. This is very basic if you want to be able to use the master reports for ACRL or cost per use
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Lynne Jones
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Can we get an update on this? It's been under review for over a year. This seems like it should be pretty basic functionality to add and would be extremely helpful. My library's director always wants to know what percentage of our use is articles vs. everything else, and it's impossible to give an easy, accurate answer without being able to include data type in analytics reports. Not all vendors with journal offerings have a TRJ1 report available for 2019, and it would make life a lot easier if we could just load the title master report for vendors instead of having to load multiple reports for the different content formats offered.
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Debbie Herman
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Now that Newspapers and OA journal titles have been removed from the JR1 report in COUNTER 5, having the ability to filter the Title Report to collect newspaper usage, etc. for the ACRL annual survey would be extremely helpful rather than having to manually run the reports on each vendor's admin. site.
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Lachlan Young
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Yoel, the idea is referring to the Data_Type and Section_Type attributes as specified in the COUNTER R5 standard:
https://www.projectcounter.org/code-of-practice-five-sections/3-0-technical-specifications/#commonattributesData_Type allows you to take the usage data included in a TR master report, and break it down by the kind of resource represented (e.g. Book, Journal, Report, Thesis_or_Dissertation, Newspaper_or_Newsletter, Other).
Section_Type similarly allows you to break down usage reported by chapters, articles, full books, or other kinds of sections.
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Hello. Thank you for your idea. Please explain why it is not sufficient in this case to use the field "Material Type Indicator" in folder "Usage Data Details - Release 5" in the "Usage Data" subject area. You can filter it by "begins with TR-" to get the title reports.
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