COUNTER | PIRUS

"The PIRUS Code of Practice has been established to provide a COUNTER-compliant standard for the recording, consolidation and reporting of usage at the individual article level of Journal Articles hosted by Publishers, Aggregators, Institutional Repositories and Subject Repositories. PIRUS builds on the COUNTER Code of Practice and COUNTER will be responsible for its development, ongoing management and implementation. To have their usage statistics and reports designated PIRUS-compliant vendors and services will have to provide usage statistics that conform to this Code of Practice. Vendors that are already COUNTER-compliant will find it relatively straightforward to conform to the PIRUS standard. In addition to what is already provided for COUNTER, the key additional metadata requirements for PIRUS- compliance will be: the article DOI, which allows usage to be recorded, reported and consolidated unambiguously for each journal article. The ORCID identifier, which allows articles to be unambiguously allocated to a particular author The PIRUS Code of Practice provides a standard that enables any organization hosting journal articles to report in a credible, consistent and compatible way the usage of these articles to authors, their institutions and their funding organizations. It also enables vendors to consolidate usage of articles on different platforms into a global usage total ..."