COUNTER compliance and SUSHI
APA offers COUNTER Release 5 usage reports for APA PsycNet® compliant with the COUNTER Code of Practice and verified by an independent audit. Compliance with the COUNTER 5 standards ensures that APA provides librarians and administrators with consistent and comparable usage statistics that help demonstrate the value of the APA content.
COUNTER 5 metrics for APA databases, journals, articles, books, and multimedia are available starting with February 2019 usage data. These reports may also be obtained via the Standard Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI).
This latest COUNTER Code of Practice is designed to make usage reports simpler, while improving flexibility and depth of reporting. To learn more about the new reports, metric types, and other changes in Release 5, please consult COUNTER’s Friendly Guide to Release 5 for Librariansopens in new window.
APA’s COUNTER 5 Reports can be accessed from the APA PsycNet Admin Centeropens in new window, or by logging into the Usage Statistics Portalopens in new window with your current APA admin username and password. The portal, developed by APA’s authorized usage stats provider, Scholarly IQ, has an updated user interface and a new dashboard.
For more information on accessing COUNTER 5 reports and configuring or harvesting SUSHI for APA PsycNet, please visit the APA Learning Commonsopens in new window.