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Annual General Meeting and COUNTER Conference 2026
We will hold our Annual General Meeting online on Thursday 11 June 2026 at 14:45 GMT (15:45 CEST, 09:45 EDT). All COUNTER members are invited to attend to receive the Directors’…
Best practice guidance: Pathway to Compliance
One of our strategic objectives is to reduce barriers to compliance with the COUNTER Code of Practice, particularly for smaller groups who lack technical expertise. As part of those efforts,…
Best practice guidance: AI usage
We’ve been developing best practice guidance for usage metrics associated with generative and agentic AI. Today, we’re pleased to be able to publish the new guidelines. This was open to…
Kazakhstan conference features keynote on COUNTER and AI
Tasha will be a keynote speaker at the XIII International LibConf 2026 in Taraz, Kazakhstan on Thursday 23 April. The conference theme is “Age of AI: International Experience and the…
Extended Friendly Guide to Tech
Tasha’s been working her way through the Friendly Guides on our Education pages. As well as making them more accessible, she’s revising and extending them to answer more of your…
Don’t forget your COUNTER conference proposals!
If you have an idea for a presentation at the COUNTER conference, don’t forget to submit it. The deadline for conference proposals is this Friday, 17th April. The main theme…
Looking back on UKSG 2026
Last week was the 49th UKSG Annual Conference & Exhibition, and it was – as usual – fabulous. This year was also the first time that COUNTER’s been able to…
Join our working group on OA usage metrics
At our last Advisory Committee meeting we agreed to start a new project. In April, we’ll launch a new best practice working group on usage metrics for open access. Our…
COUNTER newsletter, March 2026
As always, we’ve had a busy couple of months here at COUNTER. If nothing else, the new listserv is keeping us on our toes with more than 500 people signed up and…