Overview
Serials Solutions® 360 Counter provides a complete solution for assessing e-resources.
Although usage statistics from content vendors are widely available, it has been extremely challenging for libraries to assess the usage and cost of journals, databases, and vendors.
360 Counter makes it easy to get answers and make decisions using this information. Using 360 Counter you will be able to:
- Aggregate COUNTER-compliant reports from your vendors
- Retrieve costs from the 360 Resource Manager Cost Management feature (included)
- Standardize journal titles using Serials Solutions Knowledgebase (included)
- Compare usage and costs between different providers
- Customize reports and share them with stakeholders
- Make more informed acquisition decisions
- Optimize the value of your electronic collection
- Archive results for historical perspective
Relative effort spent processing and assessing COUNTER reports
360 Counter dramatically reduces the time it takes to process and analyze usage data received from COUNTER-compliant reports. After you have downloaded and prepared your reports, 360 Counter takes over. 360 Counter aggregates data, inserts costs, associates subjects, standardizes titles, calculates usage and costs, and automates analysis. You then can customize reporting based on the criteria that's most important for your library. The outcome is better data, better information, better analysis, and better decisions.
Leverage the power of the Serials Solutions knowledgebase and 360 Resource Manager
360 Counter leverages the power of both the 360 Resource Manager Cost Management feature and Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks. After 360 Counter aggregates the COUNTER reports that you download from your vendors, it incorporates resource costs from 360 Resource Manager Cost Management.
360 Counter then uses Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks to standardize variations of a title into one common title, thereby making it easy to assess and compare titles from different vendors. For example, if Vendor A reports JAMA is searched X number of times and Vendor B reports that the Journal of the American Medical Association is searched Y number of times, normalization reveals that the journal was used X + Y times.
360 Counter then uses the included Serials Solutions knowledgebase to standardize variations of the same title into one title, thereby making it easy to assess and compare titles from different vendors. For example, if Vendor A claims JAMA is searched X number of times and Vendor B states that the Journal of the American Medical Association is searched Y number of times, standardization reveals that JAMA was used X+Y times.
360 Counter works with your local holdings to deliver local results
Serials Solutions populates your knowledgebase with the bibliographic metadata for your holdings, thereby reducing errors and redundancy, and saving you time and effort. Journal titles in Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks also are associated with one or more subjects, and librarians can assign weighting factors to these journal titles.
360 Counter calculates cost-per-click by title, database, subject, and platform, then presents the results in customizable report formats. 360 Counter reporting tools then provide your library's stakeholders with the information they need to make better decisions and optimize the value of your electronic collection.
360 Counter then calculates cost-per-click by title, database, subject, and platform, and provides the results in customizable report formats. 360 Counter reporting tools provide your library's stakeholders the information they need to make better decisions and optimize the value of your electronic collection.
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