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 of building our global community in the Directors’ Report for 2024. With a tiny team of just two people, both part-time, we have expanded COUNTER’s footprint to literally thousands of organisations around the world. Beyond our much-valued members, we supported nearly 1200 organisations in their COUNTER implementation efforts, as well as responding to queries and concerns from over 7000 individuals.
This map shows the countries where COUNTER has organisational contacts, including members. These are the groups we supported in their implementation efforts in 2024. The shading ranges from pale blue (one or two organisations per country) to dark blue (hundreds of organisations per country).
We’d love to see more of the map turn blue in 2025, and have introduced completely free membership for libraries and publishers in the Research4Life countries in an effort to open up participation. We are also continuing our community outreach efforts, including offering the members-only COUNTER Conference again in 2025 and introducing in-depth education via COUNTER Academy.
There’s more about this and our other objectives in the Directors’ Report, which you can access from the button below.
