News
COUNTER Commits to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure
COUNTER is a community-led organisation and our Code of Practice is the industry standard for usage metrics. Today, we are pleased to announce that we are committing to the Principles…
COUNTER Validation Tool: Request for Proposals
Our Validation Tool is an essential service to the community, helping publishers and libraries validate Release 5 COUNTER Reports. It It is free to use, and we encourage all report…
Annual General Meeting 2024
The Directors’ Reports, including financial accounts, and the draft minutes from our Annual General Meeting on 15 May 2024 as part of the COUNTER Conference can be downloaded from the…
Reflections on the first COUNTER conference
Tasha and Siân reflect on our first ever COUNTER Conference, which was held last Thursday.
Find us at: publisherspeak UK 2024
Tasha is going to be at the publisherspeak UK 2024 conference on the 21st of May in London. Created by the Kriyadocs team, “this event will bring together stakeholders from…
Consultation: Code of Practice for Research Data
Background The COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data provided a key milestone in data evaluation practices by making it possible to report comparable usage counts across platforms. Over the…
Policy Consultation: Syndicated Usage
We know that content syndication is becoming ever-more popular, and that means COUNTER needs to find a way to allow people to share COUNTER-compliant usage reports from the syndicated platform…
Introducing COUNTER Metrics
COUNTER has been around since 2003, and we’ve always been known as Project COUNTER. That’s been creating some confusion, with some people thinking that ‘Project’ must signify that we are…
Infra Finder: a new hub for open infrastructure and standards
Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) has launched their latest tool, Infra Finder, which is foster discovery, adoption, and investment for open infrastructure services. COUNTER is delighted to be one of…