COUNTER RELEASE 5: an independent review Dave Jago, Mark Sandler, and Alicia Wise Contacts:
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Contents Executive Summary ......................................................................................................................................... 3 What We Learned ........................................................................................................................................... 4 Query logs and FAQs ................................................................................................................................... 4 Audit reports ............................................................................................................................................... 5 Survey responses: libraries and consortia .................................................................................................. 6 Survey responses: publishers ....................................................................................................................10 Librarian Focus Groups .............................................................................................................................16 Uses of COUNTER information..............................................................................................................16 Things that can be done with COUNTER 5 that were not possible before ...........................................17 The transition from R4 to R5.................................................................................................................18