Tasha Mellins-Cohen
Harvest season
“I’ve set up my system to harvest COUNTER Reports on the 15th of each month but I keep seeing errors. Why can’t I download my reports?” “Why did Release 5.1…
Consultation: Reporting to Multiple Institutional Identities
We have been working for a while on a project to standardise and streamline how publishers manage usage reporting where a single user can be tied to lots of institutional…
COUNTER newsletter, November 2025
Where has the year gone? Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the US, and we hope that everyone else is looking forward to December and the end of 2025.…
Consultation: Pathways to Compliance
We 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…
Why COUNTER doesn’t have a chatbot… yet
“Tasha, why doesn’t countermetrics.org have a chatbot to answer questions about COUNTER? I’m sure AI can use all of the publicly available information that you already have, like the friendly…
Protecting the COUNTER API
The internet is a dangerous place. Internet traffic is full of automated bots, scripts, and other malicious actors. Therefore it is legitimate to protect any resource that is exposed to…
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…
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…