Consultation: Pathways to Compliance
24 November 2025We shared an update from our working group on Pathways to Compliance in October. Today, we’re pleased to say that we have some draft best practice guidelines for our community to review. We know that full COUNTER compliance can be a major technical challenge. Our new Pathway identifies incremental steps that non-compliant publishers could take to make their usage reporting easier to access and more valuable to report consumers.
Have your say
We want to make sure that the Pathway serves everyone, so we really want to hear from you. Whether you are a small publisher considering joining the Pathway, or a librarian looking for better reporting, please send us your feedback!
COUNTER members are also eligible to sign up for the series of webinars we’ll be running in January on all three of our best practice consultations – this one, one on reporting to multiple institutional identities, and of course one on reporting generative and agentic AI usage.