Gathering the needles: evaluating the impact of gold open access content with traditional subscription journals

The Project COUNTER, known as the Code of Practice, is the standard that ensures vendors and publishers can provide their library customers with consistent, credible and comparable usage data. Utilizing the Project COUNTER Release 4 JR1-GOA report, two librarians explore these data in comparison to journal package subscriptions represented via the JR1 reports. The intent of the study was to assess the overall picture regarding article usage. The methodology and the initial outcomes of the study are provided, along with future plans and opportunities arising from the study findings.