What's new?

About Physicians Postgraduate Press Usage Reports

Registration Information

Password changes/retrieval

What's New?

What is COUNTER?

Project COUNTER is an industry initiative that provides guidelines for the measurement, creation, and distribution of online usage reports to institutional subscribers. See http://projectcounter.org for more information.

Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc., publisher of The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, has made a commitment to provide the COUNTER compliant usage reports to our subscribers.

What are the features associated with COUNTER Release 3?

• Further improvements to the reliability of the COUNTER usage reports
• Mitigates the potential inflationary effects on usage statistics of federated and automated search engines, internet robots, crawlers, etc.
• Provides tools that will facilitate the consolidation, management and analysis of the COUNTER usage statistics
• Improved COUNTER usage reports for library consortia
• Improved reporting for journal archives

What is SUSHI and how does it relate to COUNTER Release 3?

• The SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) protocol has been incorporated into the COUNTER Code of Practice
• SUSHI has been developed by NISO (National Information Standards Organizations) in cooperation with COUNTER
• SUSHI allows for the automated retrieval of the COUNTER usage reports into local systems, making the harvesting and aggregating of usage reports much less time consuming for the librarian or library consortium administrator
• Several SUSHI client tools are currently available through various vendors
• For more information or assistance with taking advantage of this new service, please contact the publisher at usagehelp@psychiatrist.com

How do I access the new Usage Report Service for The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry?

Institutional subscribers who have a currently active paid subscription with IP (Internet Protocol) authentication to the Publisher’s website, www.psychiatrist.com, may log in with the username and password assigned by the Publisher. To log in, go to our homepage at http://www.psychiatristreports.com.

Institutional subscribers without a current usage report membership may contact the Publisher at usagehelp@psychiatrist.com to obtain a username and password to activate their usage report membership.

Is the Usage Report Service for The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry compliant with Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases?

Yes, the Usage Report Service for The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry is compliant with Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases. This version of the Code of Practice is mandatory beginning on September 1, 2009 and is the version with which vendors must comply.

About The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry Usage Reports

What types of COUNTER reports are available?

The following COUNTER defined reports have been developed and are available:

Journal Report 1: Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by Month and Journal
Database Report 1: Total Searches and Sessions by Month and Database

Each report provides a unique view into the Journal’s online usage data and is formatted to the guidelines that COUNTER has provided.

What type of information does the Usage Report Service provide?

The reports defined above detail counts of successful requests made from the IP addresses you provided to the Publisher when you placed your order. The usage data is confined to content related pages including abstracts, table of contents, searches and full-text article downloads.

What date ranges are now available?

COUNTER compliant usage data will be provided to institutions beginning with January 2009.

Define these file types: HTML, PDF, CSV and XLS.

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) - The coded format language used for creating hypertext documents on the World Wide Web and controlling how Web pages appear.

PDF - A file format created by Adobe to provide a standard form for storing and editing printed publishable documents. Because documents in PDF format can easily be seen and printed by users on a variety of computer and platform types, they are very common on the World Wide Web. To view files of this type, download the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free from Adobe's Web site - http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.

CSV (Comma Separated Variable) - The simplest form of file for holding scientific, or other, data. Data is listed in columns in a text file, each value being separated by a comma. Each new line represents a new set of data.

XLS - Excel format spreadsheet.

XML (Extensible Markup Language): A text format designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML. (from http://www.w3.org/XML/)

When will the usage reports be ready for viewing each month?

Monthly usage reports will be available within 4 weeks of the beginning of the month as per COUNTER standards. A notice will be sent out each month when the usage reports are on the report portal.

How is usage activity assigned to an account?

Usage activity is assigned by IP address to each account that contains that IP address. Activity will be assigned to each account if the IP address falls under multiple accounts.

Registration Information

How do I register for The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry’s Usage Report Service?

You may register for the Journal’s Usage Reports Service by contacting the Publisher at usagehelp@psychiatrist.com.

*Please be advised that it may take up to 48 hours for your registration to be activated and for your first batch of reports to be made available.

Password Changes/Retrieval

How do I change my password?

You may change your username or your password by contacting the Publisher at usagehelp@psychiatrist.com.

*Note: Password changes may take up to 48 hours to take effect.

How can I retrieve my password?

To retrieve your password, go to http://www.psychiatristreports.com/Docs/Password.aspx and provide your username.