OpenEdition Counter 5 Service Documentation

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This documentation is available in French and English. Expand the “Read the Docs” panel at the bottom of the sidebar to see the different versions.

Cette documentation est disponible en français et en anglais. Cliquez sur le menu “Read the Docs” en bas à gauche pour accéder aux différentes versions linguistiques.

This application allows institutions and consortia subscribing to OpenEdition Freemium for Journals or OpenEdition Freemium for Books to access their usage statistics for the OpenEdition platform in Counter 5 format.

OpenEdition’s Counter 5 service is regularly certified by an independent audit.

The COUNTER Code of Practice for Release 5 is available on Counter Website: https://www.projectcounter.org/code-of-practice-five-sections/abstract/.

The Code of Practice 5.0.1 has been translated into French thanks to the efforts of the Inist-CNRS and the Couperin.org consortium: https://www.projectcounter.org/telecharger-ici-le-code-de-bonnes-pratiques-counter_v5_fr_5-0-1-en-version-pdf/

Counter 5 reports are available:

• as tsv files, accessible at https://counter5.openedition.org;

• in json format accessible via Sushi protocol at the following address: https://counter5.openedition.org/api/doc.

Counter 5 Documentation

• 1. Credentials
  • 1.1. Counter 5 Service
  • 1.2. Sushi API
• 2. Available Reports
  • 2.1. Platform Reports
  • 2.2. Title Reports
• 3. Metric types
  • 3.1. Investigations / Requests
  • 3.2. Total_Item_Investigations and Total_Item_Requests
  • 3.3. Unique_Item_Investigations and Unique_Item_Requests
  • 3.4. Unique_Title_Investigations et Unique_Title_Requests
  • 3.5. No_License
  • 3.6. Limit_Exceeded
  • 3.7. Searches_Platform
• 4. Sushi API
• 5. Counter 5 and OpenEdition Freemium
• 6. Date of report availability and response time
  • 6.1. Dates and availability of reports
  • 6.2. Response time and caching
• 7. Certification

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