Purpose
Provides full-text activity for books, excluding open and free to read content, as total item requests and unique title requests. Total Item Requests provides insights to overall activity, while Unique Title Requests provide comparable usage across book and reference work platforms.
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🔵 The data in this report is duplicative of the data in the COUNTER: Title Master Report and the COUNTER: Book Usage by Access Type Report. |
Report Notes
This COUNTER Report is based on the COUNTER Code of Practice Release 5.1.0.1 (Reference: Code of Practice - COUNTER Metrics).
The access filter will automatically filter the report to only show products that distributed the content, and this filter will only show available values.
This report provides a limited display of engagement events which includes the the current year to-date and previous two years. For example, if today is 02-Dec-2024, then all engagement events are included for 2024 up through 02-Dec-2024 at 00:00:00 UTC and all engagement events for 2023 and 2022.
Definition of filters
| Filter Name | Description | Usage Notes |
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Date Range (Required) |
Date range for when requests took place | Use to set a date range, relative date (e.g., “last month”), or specific dates. |
| Metric Type | A multi-versatile filter used to define the scope of requests to view | Defaulted to “Total_Item_Requests or “Unique_Item_Requests” |
Definition of fields
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📄 VitalSource is unable to provide normalized field names to ensure report aligns to the COUNTER Compliance Standards. To support end-users who use VitalSource Analytics & Insights reporting, normalized values have also been included in this documentation for cross-reference. |
| Field Name | Description | Normalized VST Field Name |
| Institution_Name | Name of the company where usage is attributed (Manage Company Name) | Institution |
| Institutional_ID | Unique identifier for the company (Manage ID) | Institution ID |
| Reporting_Period | Date range covered in the report results, represented as “Begin Date = YYYY-MM-DD; End Date = YYYY-MM-DD” | Date Range |
| Created | Date the query is run (YYYY-MM-DD) | Query Date |
| Title | Name of the content accessed | Item Name |
| Publisher | Name of the publisher (Manage Company name) | Publisher |
| Publisher_ID | Unique identifier for the publisher (Manage ID) | Publisher ID |
| DOI | Digital Object Identifier associated with the content (where available) | DOI |
| Proprietary_ID | VitalSource ID associated with the content (VBID) | VBID |
| ISBN | ISBN associated with the content | ISBN |
| Print_ISSN | Print ISSN associated with the content (where available) | Print ISSN |
| Online_ISSN | Online ISSN associated with the content (where available) | Online ISSN |
| URI | Universal Resource Identifier associated with the content (where available) | URI |
| YOP | Year Of Publication for the content | Publication Year |
| Platform | Platform used to access the content | Platform |
| Data_Type | Categorization for the type of content | Content Type |
| Section_Type | Chapters/sections that are accessed in a given session | Section Type |
| Access_Type | Type of access being logged | Access Type |
| Access_Method | Method used to access the content | Access Method |
| Metric_Type | Type of activity being counted | Request Type |
| Counter Date | Month where the activity is attributed | Counter Date |
| Counter_Metric | Count of requests based on metric type (by month) | Request Count |
| Reporting_Period_Total | Total count of requested based on the metric type | Request Count (Total) |