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Date formatting and text strings
The Code of Practice requires publishers to offer tabular versions of their COUNTER reports. Most providers offer two formats: tab separated files (.tsv) and Excel files (.xlsx). We also specify…
Baking best practices into the Code
We’ve pulled in some of our recent work on best practice guidelines to the Code as part of the fix-and-feature Release 5.1.1. These are new features which are either optional,…
COUNTER for repositories
The Code of Practice for Research Data (CRD) was a milestone in data evaluation practices. It made it possible to report comparable usage counts across repositories and other data platforms.…
COUNTER’s bot repository
For many years, COUNTER’s list of bots and spiders was hosted in a GitHub repository that we didn’t control. As part of the fix-and-feature Release 5.1.1 of the Code of…
Code of Practice Release 5.1.1
We have published the latest fix and feature release of the COUNTER Code of Practice, R5.1.1. Read R5.1.1 Read the full details on GitHub New features and links to best…
OAEBUDT, a Scholarly Communications Data Space
A network of publisher, library and open infrastructure organisations interested in open access (OA) book usage data came together in July 2022. The group aimed to create governance, trust, and…
Workshops highlight standards needed for tracking provenance, attribution, and usage in the AI ecosystem
In May 2026, NISO, COUNTER, and Cambridge University Press & Assessment hosted a series of invitation-only workshop discussions exploring how the information standards community should adapt to the growth in…
Multiple platforms, one report
After the COUNTER Conference, one of our publisher members asked whether they could reduce librarians’ workloads by offering reports for all of their platforms (websites) in a single report. The…
Retiring Release 5
One of the questions that comes to me reasonably frequently is about when Release 5 will be retired. The answer, of course, is “it depends on what you mean by…