An *animated* illustration of COUNTER r4 statistics generated with a fairly simple case of one search in a Discovery service and three clicks in the results and full text. The slide shows which actions count towards Search, Result Clicks, Record Views, and Full Text views, statistics in PR1, DB1, and JR1 reports. Download to see the animations.

1. EBSCO Discovery Platform
Wiley Result
Gale Result
CINAHL Result
Search term
submitted
COUNTER
Report
Regular
Searches
Searches
Federated
Result
Clicks
Record
Views
Full
Text
EBSCO PR1 1 1 1
EBSCO DB1:
CINAHL
1 1
EBSCO DB1:
Gale
1 1 1
EBSCO DB1:
Publisher
Provided
Indexing
1 1
Wiley JR1 1
EBSCO JR1 1
Results List
Wiley Full
Text
OpenURL
Hosted
FT
Click 3
Result Clicks count each time a user clicks a link from the search result
to the detailed view, a link resolver, etc.
Record View counts the abstract/detailed records explicitly viewed
from the database.
http://support.epnet.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=7460
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One search; Three clicks; One record view; Two full text
views.
Click 1
Click 2
EBSCOhost
Full Text
COUNTER R4 Illustration
Athena Hoeppner | University of Central Florida | athena@ucf.edu