EVENTS
COUNTER engages with many events throughout the year, both our own and those organised by other people. This page holds information from our annual Conference and occasional webinars. COUNTER events are member benefits, so check our Members page to see if your institution is a member. If not, we make selected videos from the Conference and webinars available a year after the event.
If you want to know where to find us at in-person or other digital events that aren’t organised by COUNTER, you’ll find that information on our news pages and social media.
COUNTER Conference
COUNTER Conference and AGM 2025
The 2025 COUNTER conference happened on 5th June 2025.
- Measuring usage in an open access world
- Facilitating direct access to usage data
- Reporting COUNTER metrics for Open Access journals
- The new COUNTER Validation Tool
- Annual General Meeting
- One-potato-two-potato…choosing the best metric for your analyses
- Monitoring the Evolution of Usage in SciELO Brazil Publications Through COUNTER Metrics
- Using PowerBI to visualise COUNTER metrics
Videos of the conference will be available to the wider community in June 2026.
COUNTER Conference and AGM 2024
The 2024 COUNTER conference was held on 15th May 2024. Videos of presentations are now available:
- The power of institutional repository usage statistics: demonstrating research impact – Hannah Reidy and Laura Wong, Jisc
- Why evaluate one-time purchases – Charlotte Hertzberg, Malmo University
- Aligning standards: Bringing the COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data and COUNTER Release 5.1 together to enhance normalization – Iratxe Puebla, DataCite
- Introduction to COUNTER audits – Kathryn Hodgkinson and Andy Flint, Audit Bureau of Circulations
- From Raw to Relevant: Selecting and Adjusting COUNTER Statistics for eResource Evaluation – Matt Jabaily, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
- Using COUNTER statistics to determine user preference – Ilda Cardenas, California State University, Fullerton
- Visualizing OA Analytics: Empowering Publishers To Tell Their Story – Lettie Conrad, LibLynx
- How Do Book Authors and Readers Experience Open Access? – Ani Bezirdzhyan, University of Michigan
Other events
We run occasional webinars on topics of interest to the community, usually late in the year.
2024: Introduction To COUNTER Reports
Tasha and Siân explained how to navigate COUNTER’s Platform, Database, Title and Item Reports, and why Tasha doesn’t recommend standard views. We also got to grips with the different COUNTER metrics.
2023: COUNTER Release 5.1
Learn about Release 5.1 of the COUNTER Code of Practice! We covered:
- What’s changed from Release 5 and why the change was made
- What report providers (publishers, aggregators, technology providers) need to do to remain compliant
- What report consumers (libraries, consortia, funders) should do to prepare
- How R5.1 is optimised for OA