October 2025
Aggregated content: Data Types and Parent Data Types
What is aggregated content, anyway? We use the word aggregated a lot in COUNTER! Individual pieces of content (items) are often aggregated into titles, and titles and items are often…
IP address protection
For years we’ve been told that browsers were going to build new IP address protection (“obfuscation”) into their technology. That would have put up barriers to IP authentication, one of…
Recording of UKSG webinar on usage metrics with OA and AI
Tasha spoke at a recent UKSG webinar about “Usage metrics for OA, AI, and more: building on solid foundations”. The webinar has already been viewed more than 300 times and…
New guide linking hosts, reports, and data types
You loved our recent guide comparing reports to standard views. Tasha’s put together a similar document for you, on another tricky question. As we say in the Friendly Guide to…
Pathways to compliance: updates from our working group
We spun up two working groups at the first meeting of the new COUNTER Advisory Committee earlier this year. One was on generative and agentic AI, and the other on…