Have Your Say
Consultations about policies, practices and updates to the Code of Practice
Have your say: optimising for OA
Libraries are under pressure to shift to OA while at the same time increase their reliance on data driven decision making. One key challenge is that the shift to open…
Usage metrics aggregation
Back in the mists of time (read: before Tasha started at COUNTER), we produced some guidelines for aggregating usage metrics. They were used by consortia and national bodies to describe…
Consultation webinar recordings now available
The COUNTER team ran three member-only webinars in January 2026, one for each of our open best practice consultations. We’re now making the recordings available for everyone, to help you…
NISO Plus and our AI consultation
As if to prove how quickly AI moves, we’ve an update for you on our AI metrics best practice consultation. Tasha’s agreed to take part in the upcoming NISO Plus…
Consultation: AI metrics
As many of you know, our Advisory Committee has been building some best practice guidance for generative and agentic AI usage metrics. Today we’re sharing the results of that work…
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…
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…
Share your thoughts in our 2025 survey
Share your thoughts about COUNTER in our 2025 survey. The COUNTER community is at the heart of COUNTER, both in reaching the point we are at today and how we…
Survey shows continued happiness with COUNTER
The COUNTER community continues to be happy with COUNTER. In our latest satisfaction survey 86% of respondents said they were happy or very happy with what COUNTER is doing. This…