Helotes, Texas — 28th October 2024 — Extrica, a leading provider of innovative Open Access scientific research publishing solutions for academic and research institutions, is thrilled to announce its partnership with Scholarly iQ to integrate ORCA capabilities into its platform. This collaboration will empower Extrica and stakeholders in the academic community with transparent COUNTER processed usage metrics for trusted reporting and insights.

The ORCA reporting tool from Scholarly iQ provided Extrica with a simple, self-service implementation for tracking user engagement and interests, enabling more informed decision-making and strategic planning. By signing up for ORCA, Extrica has access to comprehensive reporting functionalities embedded with trusted COUNTER processed data and integration with the leading IPInfo database of organisations and locations by IP address. In the first month of reporting ORCA has provided:

• Item level analytics of over 5,000 articles across 18 titles
• COUNTER processed metrics for over 23,000 Unique Item Requests
• Global reach across 146 countries
• Attribution to over 2,000 educational organisations and a further 5,000 businesses worldwide (not including hosting and ISP providers)

“We are excited to partner with Scholarly iQ to bring ORCA reporting to Extrica,” said Mangirdas Ragulskis, Chief Executive Officer at Extrica. “This integration aligns perfectly with our mission to enhance research effectiveness and accessibility. ORCA's robust analytics capabilities and trusted, community supporting metrics will allow us and our clients gain deeper insights into usage and our OA community.”

“We are thrilled to partner with Extrica to bring trusted COUNTER analytics for Open Access publishing,” said Gary Van Overborg, CEO at Scholarly iQ. “This collaboration proves that working with established community standards for consistent, comparable and credible usage metrics is also achievable for OA publishers with ORCA. The ORCA service seeks to lower cost and technical barriers to accessing trusted usage so that OA publishing can be directly valued alongside other publishing models.”

Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Executive Director, COUNTER commented “We're excited to see Scholarly iQ and Extrica building on COUNTER's Global Item Reports to deliver trustworthy usage metrics to Extrica's library customers. One of our priorities with Release 5.1 of the Code of Practice was to embed open access as part of the mainstream of our work, and initiatives like ORCA show us why it was so important to do that.”

For more information about Extrica and its new ORCA reporting capabilities, please contact Stuart Maxwell at info@scholarlyiq.com.

About Extrica
Pioneering open-access publisher, dedicated to publishing peer-reviewed journals across engineering, basic sciences, health sciences, and social sciences. As a trusted platform for authors, editors, and researchers, we offer technological solutions for all research stakeholders that drives scientific research forward.

About Scholarly iQ
Celebrating 20 years, SiQ provides unrivalled expertise for trusted usage analytics. SiQ’s fast, easy, platform independent implementation delivers valued data insights to customer, sales, editorial, marketing and partner stakeholders. Questions about COUNTER, Open Access, Impact, Data or wider Business Intelligence? Trust SiQ to have you covered.