Tasha Mellins-Cohen
The new COUNTER Validator
In early June we invited our community to be part of the public beta for the new Validator. The same day, Beda Kosata gave a live demo of the Validator…
Find us at: Future of Scientific Publishing
Tasha will be in London for the Royal Society’s Future of Scientific Publishing conference in July – drop her a line if you’d like to schedule time to chat.
How COUNTER Metrics and CLOCKSS work together to support open access: Highlights from our webinar
On the 24th of June, Tasha had the pleasure of participating in a webinar featuring Alicia Wise, Executive Director of CLOCKSS. Together they explored how usage metrics and digital preservation…
Exception codes for when R5 reports are no longer available
In recent weeks the Code Team has been talking about which error code is the best one to use when publishers stop offering Release 5 reports. Some publishers have already…
COUNTER membership from 2026
COUNTER’s membership structure has stayed broadly the same since we were founded back in 2003. Over that time the knowledge community has undergone huge structural changes. As part of our…
Annual General Meeting 2025
The Directors’ Reports, including financial accounts, and the draft minutes from our Annual General Meeting on 5 June 2025 as part of the COUNTER Conference can be downloaded from the…
Harvesting multiple reports
We know that some report consumers (libraries) want to collect or harvest lots of reports at one time. That can cause some difficulties where report providers (publishers, aggregators) have rate…
At the beach!
The COUNTER office will be closed from the 16th to the 20th of June as our team takes a well-deserved holiday. Please be patient: we’ll be replying to messages when…
Allocating spaces on the first COUNTER Academy
We announced the launch of COUNTER Academy in April, and have had an overwhelming response to this new educational offering. Thank you to everyone who expressed an interest. In this…