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Why COUNTER doesn’t have a chatbot… yet
“Tasha, why doesn’t countermetrics.org have a chatbot to answer questions about COUNTER? I’m sure AI can use all of the publicly available information that you already have, like the friendly…
Survey reveals high satisfaction with COUNTER
Our latest satisfaction survey has revealed that 89% of respondents are either happy or very happy with what COUNTER is doing.
Protecting the COUNTER API
The internet is a dangerous place. Internet traffic is full of automated bots, scripts, and other malicious actors. Therefore it is legitimate to protect any resource that is exposed to…
Aggregated content: Data Types and Parent Data Types
What is aggregated content, anyway? We use the word aggregated a lot in COUNTER! Individual pieces of content (items) are often aggregated into titles, and titles and items are often…
IP address protection
For years we’ve been told that browsers were going to build new IP address protection (“obfuscation”) into their technology. That would have put up barriers to IP authentication, one of…
Recording of UKSG webinar on usage metrics with OA and AI
Tasha spoke at a recent UKSG webinar about “Usage metrics for OA, AI, and more: building on solid foundations”. The webinar has already been viewed more than 300 times and…
New guide linking hosts, reports, and data types
You loved our recent guide comparing reports to standard views. Tasha’s put together a similar document for you, on another tricky question. As we say in the Friendly Guide to…
Pathways to compliance: updates from our working group
We spun up two working groups at the first meeting of the new COUNTER Advisory Committee earlier this year. One was on generative and agentic AI, and the other on…
Membership rates 2026
In June the COUNTER membership approved changes to our member benefits list and to our member structure – you can read about it in our post at https://www.countermetrics.org/member-changes/. This post…