| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| COUNTER Code of Practice for Articles | A COUNTER standard for the recording, consolidation and reporting of usage at the individual article level of Journal Articles hosted by Publishers, Aggregators, Institutional Repositories and Subject Repositories. |
| COUNTER Code of Practice for e-Resources | A code of practice that allows the usage of online information products and services to be measured in a credible, consistent and compatible way using vendor-generated data ( https://www.projectcounter.org/code-of-practice-sections/general-information/ ) |
| COUNTER Robots | Internet robots, crawlers, spiders, etc., listed in the COUNTER Code of Practice ( https://www.projectcounter.org/code-of-practice-sections/general-information/ ). Downloads by these applications are subtracted from the total downloads as part of a process to calculate COUNTER-compliant usage statistics. |
| COUNTER-compliant usage statistics | Usage statistics which conform to the criteria laid down in the latest COUNTER Code of Practice |
| CSV format | Comma separated values - a file format for data tables suitable for import into spreadsheets such as Excel. One of the usage report formats prescribed by the COUNTER Code of Practice Release 4. |
| DoubleClicks | Requests to download an item where the mouse is clicked twice within thirty seconds are designated as "double clicks" and only counted as one request. |
| FilteredDataOut (Total downloads) | Net figures for downloads after subtraction of COUNTER Robots, IRUS-UK Exclusions and Double Clicks. These figures form the COUNTER-conformant usage statistics. |
| Ingest | Process of collecting data on item downloads from participating repositories and uploading it to IRUS-UK. |
| IRUS-UK Exclusions | An additional list of internet robots, crawlers, spiders, etc., used by IRUS-UK in addition to the COUNTER list. Downloads by these applications are subtracted from the total downloads as part of a process to calculate COUNTER-conformant usage statistics. |
| non-COUNTER-compliant usage statistics | Usage statistics which do not conform to the criteria laid down in the latest COUNTER Code of Practice |
| ORCID | ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a persistent identifier for humans, similar in many ways to a Digital Object Identifier or DOI, which uniquely identifies objects. |
| PIRUS Code of Practice | A Code of Practice for recording and reporting usage at the individual article level established as an outcome of the Jisc-funded PIRUS (Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics) project ( http://www.projectcounter.org/pirus.html ) |
| PIRUS2 project | The Publisher and Institution Repository Usage Statistics (PIRUS2) project ( https://irus.jisc.ac.uk/r4/about/pirus2/ ) aimed to develop a global standard to enable the recording, reporting and consolidation of online usage statistics for individual journal articles hosted by Institutional Repositories, Publishers and others. |
| RawDataIn | Total of items downloaded from participating repositories. These data are received by IRUS-UK each day using the "Tracker Protocol" and are processed to remove robots and double clicks, resulting in COUNTER-compliant usage statistics. |
| Shibboleth authentication | A method of managing access to online resources ( http://www.shibboleth.net/ ) |
| SUSHI | Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative - an automated protocol for harvesting electronic resource usage data ( http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi ) |
| Total downloads | The total downloads that we report are the net figures for downloads from a repository since participating in IRUS-UK after subtraction of COUNTER Robots, IRUS-UK Exclusions and Double Clicks. These figures form the COUNTER-compliant usage statistics. |
| Total no. of items downloaded | This is the number of individual articles, theses, etc. that has been downloaded from a repository (some once, some multiple times), since that repository participated in IRUS-UK, not how many times they have been downloaded. |
| TSV format | Tab separated values - a file format for data tables suitable for import into spreadsheets such as Excel. One of the usage report formats prescribed by the COUNTER Code of Practice Release 4. |
| UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research | An organisation which manages access to online resources and services for education and research in the UK via Shibboleth ( http://www.ukfederation.org.uk/ ) |
