As you are well aware, researchers are increasingly using a variety of platforms to access and share the literature and some of this usage is hidden. The same article may be available from a variety of places:
*Publisher’s platform
*Social Network Sites such as Mendeley and Research Gate
*Full text aggregator platforms such as EBSCO
*Institutional Repositories

Information Power Ltd, working with COUNTER, has been commissioned by CrossRef and Elsevier to undertake research into ‘Distributed Usage Logging’. This is a method of reporting that would give a much more complete picture. It enables publishers to provide reports of “total usage” regardless of where that usage happens. Such reports could also provide information about shares, tweets, and citations on Wikipedia, etc.

Thank you for taking the time to complete this short survey which will help us to discover what such additional data would be useful to you.


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Please tell us who where you are from (please select only one).

You can only complete the survey from the perspective of one role. If you have more than one role in your organisation, for example responsibility for the library and institutional repository, please complete the survey twice, one for each of your roles.

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