Tasha Mellins-Cohen
Beta test the new Validator
Since COUNTER’s validation tool was first built, we’ve relied on volunteer efforts – and particularly Bernd Oberknapp – to keep it running. Over the years the tool has become increasingly…
Our global community
One of COUNTER’s strategic objectives is to “foster and grow an engaged community to increase adoption and use of COUNTER metrics worldwide”. We talk about our progress towards this objective…
Audit extensions: what happens when they expire?
Following on from our post earlier this year about audit extensions, this post explains what happens when they expire. In February we shared a post about audit extensions as we…
COUNTER on ORIGINal Thoughts
The ORIGINal Thoughts team invited us to contribute an article explaining the background to COUNTER and how normalised metrics can be used more effectively by publishers. Here’s just a snippet…
COUNTER Newsletter, May 2025
We sent out the latest COUNTER newsletter today. Here’s what we said We are just three weeks away from our second annual COUNTER conference and AGM on 5th June and…
Syndicated usage and goodbye to DUL
On Tuesday 22 April, Tasha participated in an STM Association webinar. She spoke about our syndicated usage best practice guidance and how the new guidance replaces the old Distributed Usage…
Find us at: Fiesole Retreat 2025
Tasha will be in Florence for the Fiesole Retreat 2025 in April – drop her a line if you’d like to schedule time to chat. On Tuesday the 8th of…
Choosing the right COUNTER report
Anyone who’s attended one of Tasha’s presentations in the last three years knows that she always recommends using the COUNTER Reports rather than the standard views. We built Release 5…
Reminder: media library closure
As announced in November 2024, we have now closed the COUNTER media library. All videos relating to the current Code of Practice are available via this website.