M.7-3 Automatic access is not logged for usage statistics of individual documents or data.
- Short Title: M.7-3 Automatic access is not logged for usage statistics of individual documents or data.
- Source Documnent: DINI Certificate for Open Access Publication Services 2019
- Source Document Link: https://doi.org/10.18452/21759
- Publishing Organisation: DINI Working Group "Electronic Publishing"
- Date of Publication: 2020-08-21
- Topic: Access/ integration
- Keywords: access, logging
- Addressed Stakeholders: data service providers
- Full Text: This can be done e.g. by evaluating the web-server log’s user agent field, by comparing hits to the robots.txt, by using lists of known robots, or by employing heuristic methods. This requirement only applies if statistics are published.