In today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Executive Director of COUNTER Metrics (formerly Project COUNTER), which plays a critical role in enabling consistent usage metrics reporting.
Last week’s STM news raises questions about whether scholarly publishers are prepared to radically improve content distribution. Is content syndication the end game?
An interview with the team behind the new Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice.
The technology developed to create a crypto-currency may be used to solve two intractable problems in scholarly publishing: authenticating users and counting usage.
Today, we grapple with privacy issues as consumers, as citizens, and as voters. As an industry, we should be thinking about how to draw not only on policy but also on technical architecture to balance privacy and innovation. When the stars align, an entirely different architecture for the control of user data is possible. What would such a shift mean for scholarly publishing and academic libraries?
If the Journal Usage Factor were run like an election, it would be a system where each party runs its own polls, hoards its own votes, provides no paper trail, and has the power to ignore any appeal.
The Usage Factor may come with unanticipated consequences: article spam and malfeasance.
Project COUNTER releases its third Code of Practice for the counting and reporting of usage data. Is COUNTER also promoting overconfidence in its products?