Access_Types in COUNTER release 5.0 & 5.1

Release 5.1

COUNTER 5.1 now includes a definition for 'Free_To_Read' that covers both permanently and temporarily free content from Springer Nature. Hence, all three COUNTER Access_Types (Open, Controlled, Free_To_Read) are now applicable to the content we publish. Additionally, the same title may appear more than once in a report if its Access_Type changes over time. 


Release 5.0

We do not report, or allow filtering on, the Access_Type “Other_Free_To_Read”. 

This is because none of the platforms that we report usage data for are of the Host_Type “Repository” or “Data_Repository”

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