Purpose

Provides summarized activity by platform and metric type.

🔵 The data in this report is duplicative of the data in the COUNTER: Platform Master 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”

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.

 

Definition of fields

📄 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
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