HOW WE WORK

Our Committees and Working Groups

There are four standing committees supporting COUNTER in different ways:

• The Board of Directors is responsible for delivering our mission to bring the knowledge community together to agree and adopt the global standard for measuring and reporting content usage through normalised metrics.
• The Executive Committee oversees our operational activities, and has responsibility for our strategic objective of ensuring COUNTER is operationally resilient and financially sustainable.
• The Education Committee helps us deliver engaging education to our members and non-members, as part of our strategic objective to foster and grow an engaged community to increase adoption and use of COUNTER metrics worldwide.
• The Advisory Committee is a broad consultative group which helps us gain insight into the challenges and wishes of the COUNTER membership, as part of our strategic objective to maintain, develop and extend the Code of Practice as a foundation for normalised, community-defined usage metrics.

As well as the committees, we have a small and very technical Code Team. They focus on maintaining and developing the Code of Practice and associated tools and technologies. Our committees can also spin up Best Practice Working Groups. Those are small project teams which help us develop solutions for specific challenges (e.g. syndicated usage reporting).

If you’d like to know who’s involved in our committees, check out the People page.

The Terms of Reference for our committees were last updated in March 2025.

Participation in COUNTER Metrics committees and speaking on behalf of COUNTER is guided by our Code of Conduct.