Usage reporting
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Available COUNTER usage statistics reports
| Report type | Springer Admin Portal | nature.com Administration Account |
| BR2: Book chapter downloads by month | x | - |
| BR3: Book chapter denials by month | x | - |
| JR1: Journal article downloads by month | x | x |
| JR1 GOA: Gold Open Access article downloads by month | x | x |
| JR1a: Number of successful article downloads from a Nature or Scientific American archive collection by month | - | x |
| JR2: Journal article denials by month | x | x |
| JR3: Journal and Page Type* Reports by month | - | x |
| JR4: Reports how many internal site searches were made by users for each collection within a calendar month** | - | x |
| JR5: Journal article downloads by Year of Publication | x | x |
DB1: Total Searches, Result Clicks and Record Views by month by database*** | x | - |
| DB2: Access Denied by month, database and category*** | x | - |
* Page Types are broken down into: Table of Contents, Abstracts, Full Text PDF, Full Text HTML, and Full.
** including saved searches, modified searches, and searches with zero results.
*** available for AdisInsight, Nano and SpringerMaterials.
Additional reports available via nature.com
These are a series of additional reports, not required by COUNTER, but made available to help with usage analysis.
- All usage Report: Year-to-date summary of customer usage for both subscribed and unsubscribed journals.
- IP address Report: Report of full-text article content for all Nature Research
journals. The report does not specify whether your institution has access to journals from which articles are viewed - Full text article download by IP Report: Report shows exactly which articles have been successfully downloaded from within your IP range each month.
- Mobile usage by institution: Report allows you to see the number of successful
article downloads in each title made via mobile device. - All Usage Report by Year of Publication: Report enables customers to see the
number of successful full text article downloads within their institution, by title and year of publication. - How many times the different page types were successfully delivered to users for each journal within a calendar month. Text Total.
