Table of Contents
Foreword
Conventions
1 Introduction
2 Overview
3 Technical Specifications for COUNTER Reports
4 COUNTER reports
5 Delivery of COUNTER Reports
6 Logging Usage
7 Processing Rules for Underlying COUNTER Reporting Data
8 SUSHI for Automated Report Harvesting
9 Audit
10 Other Compliance Topics
11 Extending the Code of Practice
12 Continuous Maintenance
13 Transitioning from Previous Releases or to New Reporting Services
14 Change History
Appendices
Appendix A: Glossary of Terms
Appendix B: Changes from Previous Releases
Appendix C: Vendor/Aggregator/Gateway Declaration of COUNTER Compliance
Appendix D: Guidelines for Implementation
Appendix E: Audit Requirements and Tests
E.1 General Auditing Requirements
E.2 The Required Audit Outputs
E.3 The Required Audit Tests
Appendix F: Handling Errors and Exceptions
Appendix G: List of Federated Search Products
Appendix H: Sample COUNTER Master Reports and Standard Views
Appendix I: List of internet robots, crawlers and spiders
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Appendix E: Audit Requirements and Tests
Appendix E: Audit Requirements and Tests
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E.1 General Auditing Requirements
Audit Philosophy
Third Party Hosts and Vendors
Auditing and Test-Scripts
1. Frequency of the Audit
2. COUNTER Usage Reports for which an Independent Audit is Required
3. General Conditions for Carrying out an Audit Test
E.2 The Required Audit Outputs
E.3 The Required Audit Tests
Stage 1. Report Format: Checking the report layout and file-format against the COUNTER Code of Practice
Stage 2. Data Integrity: Checking the usage numbers as reported
Platform Reports
Master Report: PR
Standard View: PR_P1
Database Reports
Master Report: DR
Standard View: DR_D1
Standard View: DR_D2
Title Reports
Master Report: TR
Standard View: TR_B1
Standard View: TR_B2
Standard View: TR_B3
Standard View: TR_J1
Standard View: TR_J2
Standard View: TR_J3
Standard View: TR_J4
Item Reports
Master Report: IR
Standard View: IR_A1
Standard View: IR_M1
Stage 3. Report Delivery: Checking delivery of the reports
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