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Open access book usage data – how close is COUNTER to the other kind?

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Volume 34 (2021): Issue 1
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Open Access
|Apr 2021
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Table 1

GA and R5 data selection

Google AnalyticsCOUNTER R5
Supplied byGoogleIRUS-UK, Jisc
Report/filter

  • Event category: Bitstream

  • Filters used:

    • Exclude ‘.jpg’ from Page (part of the URL after the domain name)

    • Bot filtering: exclude all hits from known bots and spiders

  • COUNTER R5 Item Report

  • Filters used:

    • Repository: OAPEN DSpace

Data usedTotal EventsTotal_Item_Requests
FrequencyDailyMonthly
Period15 April 2020 to 31 July 202015 April 2020 to 31 July 2020
Description1617
Figure 1

Comparing R5 to GA

Figure 2

Comparing usage of the top 15 countries

Figure 3

Percentage of top five countries in GA and R5

Table 2

Ranking of GA and R5 compared

RankingNumber of titlesPercentage
Difference < 10306%
Difference < 509820%
Larger difference37274%
Total500100%
Figure 4

Ranking of 50 titles in GA and R5

Table 3

Ranking and downloads of Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility

GAR5
Rank283
Number of downloads27,9621,274
Figure 5

GA usage of Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility

Table 4

Ranking and downloads of Access Controlled

GAR5
Rank4119
Number of downloads12,4571,083
Figure 6

GA usage of Access Controlled

Table 5

Ranking and downloads of Frankenstein

GAR5
Rank53
Number of downloads8,5835,675
Figure 7

GA usage of Frankenstein

Table 6

Ranking and downloads of The Myths That Made America

GAR5
Rank623
Number of downloads8,2992,098
Figure 8

GA usage of The Myths That Made America

Table 7

Ranking and downloads of Ethnicity, Race and Inequality in the UK

GAR5
Rank71
Number of downloads7,82810,511
Figure 9

GA usage of Ethnicity, Race and Inequality in the UK

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.539 | Journal eISSN: 2048-7754
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Language: English
Page range: 9 - 9
Submitted on: Nov 11, 2020
Accepted on: Dec 9, 2020
Published on: Apr 28, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 issues per year
Keywords:
open access books,
usage data,
COUNTER,
Google analytics,
downloads,
impact measurement

© 2021 Ronald Snijder, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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