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.

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

Statistics are available in Counter 5.0 format until 2024 and in Counter 5.1 format from 2025 onwards.

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.

OpenEdition is registered with Counter Metrics: https://registry.countermetrics.org/platform/9fd59d9f-a669-4756-a4b0-1efeeaf14746

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. Item and Books: Differences 5.0 / 5.1
  • 3.6. User session
  • 3.7. No_License
  • 3.8. Limit_Exceeded
  • 3.9. Searches_Platform
• 4. Sushi API
• 5. Counter 5 and Access_Type
  • 5.1. Counter 5 .0 Access_Type and OpenEdition Freemium
  • 5.2. Counter 5 .1 Access_Type and OpenEdition Freemium
  • 5.3. Summary table of Access_Type
• 6. Dates and availability of reports
• 7. Certification

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