Manage Your COUNTER 3 Usage Reports: For Institutions
To check usage for any of your AAAS e-Resources:
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Go to www.sciencemag.org
Select Librarians from the top menu, right
above the AAAS/Science navigation bar
LIBRARIANS
YOUR ACCOUNT
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Select COUNTER 3 Usage Reports from the
left-hand side menu entitled Help for Librarians
YOUR ACCOUNT
• COUNTER 3
Usage Reports
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Manage Your COUNTER 3 Usage Reports: For Institutions cont’d.
YOUR ACCOUNT
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To access your
Usage Reports:
For Science, Science Classic,
Science Signaling and/or
Science Translational Medicine
YOUR ACCOUNT
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Enter your User Name
and Password
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Manage Your COUNTER 3 Usage Reports: For Institutions cont’d.
COUNTER Usage Report
This monthly report tracks Journal article usage (HTML and PDF) and is cumulative year-to-date.
(You can export usage reports to Excel, see details on pages 12 and 13.)
Institution:
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If you choose COUNTER Usage Report you will find:
Journal Reports, Additional Detail Report(s), and Unsuccessful Attempts Report(s)
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If you choose any Extended-Detail Usage Report you will find:
The most-read articles for the month and articles for each AAAS/Science e-Resource
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Manage Your COUNTER 3 Usage Reports: For Institutions cont’d.
YTD totals
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COUNTER Usage Reports
give you calendar YTD
(year-to-date) totals
which are also broken
out by abstract, HTML,
and PDF. See following
pages for individual
report details.
Science
Science Classic
Science Signaling
Science Translational Medicine
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COUNTER Usage Reports cont’d.
Journal Report 1:
Available for Science (1997 to current issue) and Science Classic (archive:
1880 to1996). Your report includes statistics for either Science only, or if
you subscribe to both, for Science and Science Classic.
TOTALS
for
Science
For institutional subscribers to Science
COMBINED
COMBINED
TOTALS for
TOTALS for
Science and
Science and Science Classic
Science
broken out by
Classic
HTML & PDF
For institutional subscribers to Science and Science Classic
Additional-Detail Report(s)
This section breaks out each e-Resource separately (Science,
Science Classic, Science Signaling, and Science Translational Medicine).
TOTALS
for Science
broken out by
HTML & PDF
COMBINED TOTALS for
Science, Science Classic,
Science Signaling, and
Science Translational
Medicine
SEPARATE TOTALS for
Science, Science Classic,
Science Signaling, and
Science Translational
Medicine broken out by
HTML & PDF
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Manage Your COUNTER 3 Usage Reports: For Institutions cont’d.
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COUNTER Usage Reports cont’d.
Unsuccessful Attempts Report(s):
This report shows all unsuccessful requests for all AAAS/Science
e-Resources your institution does not subscribe to.
COMBINED
TOTALS for
Science Classic,
Science Signaling
and Science
Translational
Medicine
COMBINED
TOTALS for
Science Classic,
Science Signaling
and Science
Translational
Medicine
broken out by
HTML & PDF
Science
Translational
Medicine
Journal Report 3, 3a, 3b, and 3c:
Each e-Resource is further broken
out by category.
CATEGORY BREAKDOWNS:
Table of Contents, Abstracts,
Full-text PDF requests,
Full-text HTML requests,
Full-text total requests
Journal Report 4:
Available for Science. Total searches per month.
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Extended-Detail Usage Reports –
showing article usage statistics and top 10 articles for a given month
Available for each AAAS/Science e-Resource
Extended-Detail Usage Reports for Science
Science
(your institution)
Science
+ Science Classic
Total-Usage Statistics
for the month
Science
+ Science Classic
Article Usage by Topic
for the month
Science + Science Classic Top 10 Articles for the month
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Manage Your COUNTER 3 Usage Reports: For Institutions cont’d.
Extended-Detail Usage Reports for Science Translational Medicine
Science Translational Medicine
(your institution)
Science
Translational Medicine
Total-Usage Statistics
for the month
Science
Translational Medicine
Article Usage by Topic
for the month
Science Translational Medicine Top 10 Articles for the month
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Manage Your Usage Reports cont’d.
Extended-Detail Usage Reports for Science Signaling – overview – see following pages for details
Science Signaling
(your institution)
Science Signaling
Total-Usage Statistics
for the month
Science Signaling
Detailed Article Usage
for the month
Detailed Usage for
Database of Cell Signaling
for the month
Detailed Article Usage
in Virtual Journal
for the month
Science Signaling Top 10 Articles for the month
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Manage Your COUNTER 3 Usage Reports: For Institutions cont’d.
Extended-Detail Usage Reports for Science Signaling cont’d.
Science Signaling
(your institution)
Overview of your institution’s
Science Signaling usage broken
down by categories.
CATEGORY BREAKDOWNS:
Abstracts
Full-text HTMLs
Full-text PDFs
Searches performed
Database of Cell Signaling (Data Requests)
Number of unique IP addresses used to access this content
Full Text HTML and PDF counts include content from The Database of Cell Signaling
Literature Section, Virtual Journal, and Overviews from the Database of Cell Signaling
Detailed Article Usage in
Science Signaling Literature
broken down by categories.
All-new primary
research articles
Full-text articles and
full-text overviews in
HTML and PDF
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Manage Your COUNTER 3 Usage Reports: For Institutions cont’d.
Extended-Detail Usage Reports for Science Signaling cont’d.
For Science Signaling – 2 additional sections
Requests for
other than
full-text articles
Detailed Usage for Database of Cell
Signaling Data Requests: Usage for
Data Requests that are NOT full-text
articles. This ever-growing database
of Pathways and Independent and
Dependent Components is updated
regularly and can be searched by
subject, scope, and model organism.
Detailed Article Usage in the Virtual Journal: The Virtual Journal uses indexing
software to analyze the contents of participating journals, identifies the articles
related to Signal Transduction, and adds them to the Virtual Journal. Access to
the articles is provided by participating publishers hosted by HighWire Press.
Participating
Journals
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Export usage statistics into an Excel document
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Begin by clicking on the tab-delimited version link located within the COUNTER Usage Report
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A screen will pop up with the tab-delimited data. In the scroll down File menu, click
Save Page As... or Save As... and name the page
File
ScienceStats.txt
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Save as a Text File (*.txt)
Text File
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Export usage statistics into an Excel document cont’d.
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Open a blank Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. From the File menu click Open. From the drop down
menu select Text Files. Find and open the text file you named when saving the usage statistics.
Text Files
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Once you open the Text file, the Text Import Wizard will appear.
Start import at row 6, then click Next. Make any choices you’d like from Steps 2 and 3. Then click Finish.
You can now manipulate the data to your preference within Excel.
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