COUNTER Release 5.1 reports are available from the My Docuseek page. For backward compatibility, we provide a SUSHI endpoint for both Release 5 and Release 5.1 COUNTER reports. See below for more information on Docuseek and SUSHI.
Supported reports:
- PR: Platform Master Report
- PR_P1: Platform Usage Report
- DR: Database Master Report [Note: this option only shows if you have licensed a Docuseek collection]
- DR_D2: Database Access Denied
- IR: Item Master Report
- IR_M1: Multimedia Item Requests
PR: Platform Master Report: The Docuseek platform provides access to the Docuseek collections as well as some additional products that we host, including the Global Environmental Justice Documentaries and The GOOD DOCS collection. We can report total item investigations (a user reaches a film page and the player loads) and total item requests (the user starts playing the film). If a user starts playing a film, pauses, then begins playing the film, this does not result in duplicate views (we consider these "results" in COUNTER parlance), so there is no distinction between "unique" and "total" requests. We do not track searches per se. We count film page loads as a "search", which is also how we interpret a COUNTER "investigation", so the Searches_Platform metric will match the Total Item Investigations.
PR_P1: Platform Usage Report: Some metrics in the COUNTER 5 standard have no meaning for Docuseek. since we only track item investigations and item requests, the PR_P1 report is effectively redundant to the PR report.
DR: Database Master Report: We treat Docuseek collections as "databases". The Database reports only show as a report option if you have licensed a Docuseek collection. These include the Docuseek Complete, Essential, K-12, Canadian, International and Fiction Collections, The Health and Health Care Collection, The Sustainability Collection, The Icarus Films Fiction Films Collection, and the Global Environmental Justice Collection, as well as distributor-specific collections. Series and samplers are not considered a "database". Single title licenses are lumped together in an "Non-collection titles" category. Note: If a title has been pulled from a collection, but your license is still active, and the title has views, it will be tabulated as part of a "Non-collection titles" category.
DR_D1: Database Search and Item Usage: This report is not available at this time. We do not track searches in our collections ("databases"), so cannot report on the different types of searches for this report. The "Investigations" (for us, the user visits the film page and the player loads) and "Requests" (the user starts playing the film) are available via the DR report.
DR_D2: Database Access Denied: We determine an "access denied" event as a user loading a page for a title that the institution does not have a license for. In those cases, the user sees the Docuseek preview player. "No license" is reported on the DR_D2 report. Docuseek does not place limits on usage of licensed contents, so there is no Limit_Exceeded data.
Report Filters and Attributes:
Begin_Date and End_Date: If the Begin_Date or End_Date is in the current month, it will be forced back to the previous month. That is, COUNTER data is not reported for the current month.
Access_Method: This is always "Regular". Data mining is not relevant to Docuseek.
Access_Type: This is always "Controlled". A user must be authenticated to view content.
Limit_Exceeded: There is no limit to views for licensed Docuseek content, so this metric is not available.
Data_Type: This is always "Multimedia", the only kind of content available on Docuseek. There is no option to select a Data_Type.
Total Item Investigations: We count "impressions" (where the page loads with a player) as an "investigation". In other words, a user went to the film’s page as the result of a direct link or clicking on the title link in search results.
Total Item Requests: We count "plays" (where the user clicks the Play button on the player) as a "request". The user landed on the film page, and began watching the film. This should always be greater than or equal to “investigations”.
Unique_Item_Investigations and Unique_Item_Requests: We do not distinguish between Total and Unique investigations and requests, so these options are not available as Metric_Types
URI: The Docuseek URL for the film
YOP: The "film year" as provided to us by the film's distributor. Usually this is the copyright year of the film.
No_License (Metric_Type): These are failed requests. For Docuseek, these are cases where a user gets to a title page for which the institution does not have a license, and sees the preview player.
COUNTER SUSHI
Docuseek supports SUSHI access to COUNTER reports. The values required for COUNTER SUSHI access are available via the My Docuseek page, on the LTI etc tab. Only account admins have access to this tab. While only Release 5.1 reports are available for display and download, Docuseek provides a SUSHI endpoint for Release 5 and for Release 5.1. Use the appropriate endpoint for the desired report format.
If you have additional questions about Docuseek's implementation of COUNTER 5.1, please email
Docuseek support.
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