eJournal interface can influence usage statistics: Implications for libraries, publishers, and project COUNTER
eJournal interface can influence usage statistics: Implications for libraries, publishers, and project COUNTER
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10.1002/asi.20405
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发表时间：
2006-07-01
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Price, Jason S.
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作者：
Davis, Philip M.;Price, Jason S.
出版商电子界面的设计可以对电子期刊使用统计产生可衡量的影响。一项对来自美国、英国和瑞典32家研究机构的6家符合COUNTER标准的出版商的期刊使用情况的研究表明，即使在控制了出版商内容的差异之后，PDF与HTML的浏览比例在出版商界面上也不一致。当出版商要求用户在访问PDF版本之前查看HTML版本时，或者当链接机制（如CrossRef）将用户引导到全文而不是每篇文章的摘要时，全文下载的数量可能会被人为夸大。这些结果表明，从COUNTER兼容的出版商的使用报告是不直接可比的，在其目前的形式。一种解决方案可能是修改出版商编号，其中“调整因子”被认为是代表其界面带来的好处或缺点。一些接口和链接协议的标准化可以消除这些差异，并允许更准确的跨出版商比较。
The design of a publisher's electronic interface can have a measurable effect on electronic journal usage statistics. A study of,journal usage from six COUNTER-compliant publishers at 32 research institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden indicates that the ratio of PDF to HTML views is not consistent across publisher interfaces, even after controlling for differences in publisher content. The number of full-text downloads may be artificially inflated when publishers require users to view HTML versions before accessing PDF versions or when linking mechanisms, such as CrossRef, direct users to the full text rather than the abstract of each article. These results suggest that usage reports from COUNTER-compliant publishers are not directly comparable in their current form. One solution may be to modify publisher numbers with "adjustment factors" deemed to be representative of the benefit or disadvantage due to its interface. Standardization of some interface and linking protocols may obviate these differences and allow for more accurate cross-publisher comparisons.