Go to www.sciencemag.org Select Librarians from the top menu, right above the AAAS/Science navigation bar

Manage Your Usage ReportsTo check usage for any of your AAAS e-resources:

Select COUNTER Usage Reports from the left-hand side menu entitled Help for Librarians

Librarians

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LIBRARIANS

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• COUNTER Usage Reports

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Enter your User Name and Password

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Manage Your Usage Reports cont’d.

To access your Usage Reports:

For Science, Science Classic, Science Signaling and/or

Science Translational Medicine

For ScienceNow

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2 Export COUNTER Usage Report*

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If you choose COUNTER Usage Report you will find: Journal Reports, Additional Detail Report(s), and Unsuccessful Attempts Report(s)

If you choose any Extended-Detail Usage Report you will find: The most-read articles for the month and articles for each AAAS/Science e-Resource

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COUNTER Usage ReportThis monthly report tracks Journal article usage (HTML and PDF) and is cumulative year-to-date. You can export this report to Excel.*

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COUNTER Usage Reports give you calendar YTD (year-to-date) totals which are also broken out by abstract, HTML, and PDF. See following pages for individual report details.

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YTD totals

Science

Science Classic

Science Signaling

Science Translational Medicine

TOTaLs for Science

broken out by HTML & PDF

COMbiNED TOTaLs for

Science and Science Classic broken out by HTML & PDF

For institutional subscribers to Science

For institutional subscribers to Science and Science Classic

Journal Report 1: Available for Science (1997 to current issue) and Science Classic (archive: 1880 to1996). Your report includes statistics for either Science only, or if you subscribe to both, for Science and Science Classic.

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TOTaLs for

Science

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COMbiNED TOTaLs for

Science and Science Classic

sEPaRaTE TOTaLs for Science, Science Classic, Science Signaling, and Science Translational

Medicine broken out by HTML & PDF

additional-Detail Report(s)This section breaks out each e-Resource separately (Science, Science Classic, Science Signaling, and Science Translational Medicine).

COMbiNED TOTaLs for Science, Science Classic, Science Signaling, and Science Translational

Medicine

Unseccessful attempts Report(s): This report shows all unsuccessful requests for all AAAS/Science e-Resources your institution does not subscribe to.

Journal Report 3, 3a, 3b, and 3c: Each e-Resource is further broken out by category.

Journal Report 4: Available for Science. Total searches per month.

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CaTEgORY bREakDOwNs: Table of Contents, abstracts, Full-text PDF requests, Full-text HTML requests, Full-text total requests

Science Translational Medicine

COMbiNED TOTaLs for Science Classic, Science Signaling and Science Translational Medicine broken out by HTML & PDF

COMbiNED TOTaLs for

Science Classic, Science Signaling

and Science Translational

Medicine

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Extended-Detail Usage Reports – showing article usage statistics and top 10 articles for a given monthAvailable for each AAAS/Science e-Resource

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Science Online + Science Classic

Total-Usage statistics for the month

Science Online + Science Classic

article Usage by Topic for the month

Science Online + Science Classic Top 10 articles for the month

(your institution)

Science

Extended-Detail Usage Reports for Science

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(your institution)

Science Translational Medicine Total-Usage statistics

for the month

Science Translational Medicine article Usage by Topic

for the month

Science Translational Medicine Top 10 articles for the month

Science Translational Medicine

Extended-Detail Usage Reports for Science Translational Medicine

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Science Signaling Total-Usage statistics

for the month

Science Signaling Detailed article Usage

for the month

Science Signaling Top 10 articles for the month

(your institution)

Science Signaling

Detailed Usage for Database of Cell signaling

for the month

Detailed Article Usage in Virtual Journal

for the month

Extended-Detail Usage Reports for Science Signaling – overview – see following pages for details

Full Text HTML and PDF counts include content from The Database of Cell Signaling Literature Section, Virtual Journal, and Overviews from the Database of Cell Signaling

CaTEgORY bREakDOwNs: abstracts Full-text HTMLs Full-text PDFs searches performed Database of Cell signaling (Data Requests) Number of unique iP addresses used to access this content

all-new primary research articles

Full-text articles and full-text overviews in

HTML and PDF

Overview of your institution’s Science Signaling usage broken down by catagories.

Detailed article Usage in Science Signaling Literature broken down by categories.

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(your institution)

Science Signaling

Extended-Detail Usage Reports for Science Signaling cont’d.

Detailed article Usage in the Virtual Journal: The Virtual Journal uses indexing software to analyze the contents of participating journals, identifies the articles related to Signaling Transduction, and adds them to the Virtual Journal. Access to the articles is provided by participating publishers hosted by HighWire Press.

Detailed Usage for Database of Cell signaling Data Requests: Usage for Data Requests that are NOT full-text articles. This ever-growing database of Pathways and Independent and Dependent Components is updated regularly and can be searched by subject, scope, and model organism.

Participating Journals

Requests for other than

full-text articles

For Science Signaling – 2 additional sections

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Extended-Detail Usage Reports for Science Signaling cont’d.

Export usage statistics into an Excel document

Begin by clicking on the tab-delimited version link located within the COUNTER Usage Report1

A screen will pop up with the tab-delimited data. In the scroll down File menu, click save Page as... or save as... and name the page 2

Save as a Text File (*.txt)3

ScienceStats.txt

Text File

File

Open a blank Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. From the File menu click Open. From the drop down menu select Text Files. Find and open the text file you named when saving the usage statistics. 4

Text Files

Once you open the Text file, the Text import wizard will appear. Start import at row 6, then click Next. Make any choices you’d like from Steps 2 and 3. Then click Finish. You can now manipulate the data to your preference within Excel.

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