Minneapolis, Minnesota based East View Information Services (EVIS) announced today that it will provide COUNTER compliant usage statistics for its Universal Databases™.

The COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) usage reports tell East View's customer librarians about East View's online titles and how they are used at a particular library. The Universal Databases™ from East View Information Services are the world's largest collection of current and historical foreign language materials from Russia, Ukraine, and other former Soviet bloc states.

"COUNTER compliance represents acceptance into a high-end club of information providers." said Kirill Fesenko, EVIS Online Publishing Director. "COUNTER reports help libraries learn how their patrons use licensed databases."

COUNTER's standardized reports will be a valued service to East View customers worldwide - some of the world's largest academic libraries. Reports will be available in customer directories on the East View website.

COUNTER provides consistent standards and protocols to measure the usage of online books, reference works, journals and databases. Having this information will help librarians track their electronic resource usage and provide guidance for promotions. It will aid librarians to review their internet integration and support their library instruction programs.

To achieve Certification for COUNTER Compliance East View committed to technological and organizational changes. East View implemented special modules and testing at the same time updating and maintaining their comprehensive and dynamic Universal Databases™.

In committing to COUNTER and its standardized reports, East View furthered its support of forward looking libraries that are leaning more heavily on online resources every year. As more patrons access library resources from the web, directors and managers of libraries of every size will need clear, standardized usage reports to guide their investment in online material and to market collections to their communities.

For more information contact:
East View Information Services
10601 Wayzata Boulevard.
Minneapolis, MN 55305 USA

Kirill Fesenko,
Online Publishing Director
Kirill.fesenko@eastview.com

Ronald Levitus,
Director Marketing and Communications
Ron.levitus@eastview.com.

About COUNTER
COUNTER is an international standard to report usage of electronic resources. Visit: http://www.projectcounter.org. to learn more about COUNTER.

The COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases contains a detailed description of the COUNTER format and definitions for usage reports. (http://projectcounter.org/r2/COUNTER_COP_Release_2.pdf)

About East View Information Services
East View Information Services began business in 1989 and has become the world's leader in providing high-quality information services from Russia and the Newly Independent States. Since 2002, East View added one of the world's largest digital libraries of Chinese information, the China National Knowledge Infrastructure produced at Beijing prestigious Tsinghua University to its offering.

East View serves a wide range of organizations from individual researchers to academic libraries and intelligence agencies, private, military and administrative. Opening the door to information sources, providing up-to-the-minute news on current events, and the changing political winds around the world, continues to be East View's distinguishing service. East View also offers a wide and deep collection of cultural background and historical information that was previously obscure in Western nations. Researchers rely on East View for information updates on new legislation and draft legislation, for elusive market data or financial figures, or for official standards, industry directories or advertising opportunities in foreign media.

East View is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, with major offices in Russia and Ukraine. With over 120 employees East View has developed a reliable and extensive acquisition network capable of satisfying the most sophisticated (as well as simple) information needs.