About RSC Usage Reports

The RSC has adopted Release 2 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for producing usage reports for its journals. The RSC usage reports service is provided through MPS Technologies in collaboration with IBM SurfAid. 

RSC usage reports are secure in that a username and password, unique to your institution, are required to access your usage reports homepage. Librarians or other authorised users should apply for their username and password by completing the Usage Reports Registration Form. 

RSC usage reports are updated on, or shortly after, the 15th day of each month. Registered users receive notification by email as soon as their updated reports are available.

What's Included in RSC Usage Reports?

RSC usage reports contain statistics from January 2005, are updated monthly and include:

• Site Overview
  Your usage reports homepage, providing a summary of the total usage of the RSC website by your institution in tabular and graphical form with links to your various reports.
  
• Full-Text Journal Article Requests - COUNTER-Compliant
  Month and year-to-date totals of the number of full-text article requests by month and journal. The year-to-date totals include the number of pdf and html article requests.
  
• Item Requests - COUNTER-Compliant
  For each journal, month and year-to-date totals of the number of requests for table of contents, abstracts, full-text articles (html plus pdf), full-text html articles and full-text pdf articles.
  
• Searches - COUNTER-Compliant
  This report gives the total number of searches of the RSC journals collection, by month and year to date.
  
• IPs and Page Views
  This report gives the total page views of the RSC website by month and year to date for each IP address at your institution that the RSC has registered. The first 50 IPs are individually listed on the report web page, but all IPs are listed by downloading this report in csv format.  

Notes on COUNTER Statistics

1. For a given journal, COUNTER statistics are reported for content published from 1997. 

2. For the RSC Journals Archive, COUNTER statistics are reported for all content published between 1841 and 1996 and are not broken down by individual journal titles. 

3. Reports for usage of Chemistry World and RSC Databases are not available.