Purpose
Provides summarized activity by platform.
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🔵 The data in this report is duplicative of the data in the COUNTER: Platform Usage Report. The data in this report is an abbreviated view of the COUNTER: Title Master 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 |
| Metric Type | A multi-versatile filter used to define the scope of requests to view | Defaulted to “Total_Item_Requests or “Unique_Item_Requests” |
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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. |
| Monthly Breakout |
A filter used to include or exclude a month-by-month view of data
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Defaulted to “Include” |
| Data Type | Categorization for the type of content | Defaulted value, as VitalSource only offers one selection |
| Access Method | Method used to access the content | Defaulted value, as VitalSource only offers one selection |
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 |
| Institution_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 |
| Platform | Platform used to access the content | Platform |
| Data_Type | Categorization for the type of content | Content 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 | Request Count |