COUNTER Newsletter, May 2025

We sent out the latest COUNTER newsletter today. Here’s what we said

We are just three weeks away from our second annual COUNTER conference and AGM on 5th June and we are looking forward to some fascinating discussions. The other exciting activity on the horizon is the COUNTER Academy, a brand new educational resource for 2025. Both of these are benefits for COUNTER members*.

Read on for more about both of these opportunities. This newsletter also includes our usual tech blog posts and details of where you can learn more about COUNTER.

One of the things we’re working on this year is a significant investment in the COUNTER Validation Tool, to make it more robust and user-friendly. That project has gone into beta testing this week, and we’ll be telling you a lot more about it in the next newsletter.

Best wishes,
Tasha and Siân

*You may be wondering if your organisation is a COUNTER member. Take a look at our Membership page for a directory of all current members and to learn more about membership.

COUNTER Conference and AGM 2025

The second COUNTER conference and AGM is happening online on Thursday 5th June. Speakers will discuss different ways of working with COUNTER within best practice guidelines and in an Open Access world. We will also share updates to the Validation Tool, as well as our report on the past year. All members are welcome to join the event – and we also have up to 10 tickets per consortium for librarians within those consortia.

COUNTER Academy offers new in-depth training opportunity

The COUNTER Academy is starting later this year! This 16-week online course for COUNTER members is a new education offering for 2025. It comes in response to requests from the COUNTER community for more in-depth training on using COUNTER.

Be a COUNTER Academy sponsor!
Thank you to our content creation sponsor Cambridge University Press and to Clarivate, which is sponsoring librarian spaces on the first course. If you are interested in joining Clarivate in sponsoring librarian spaces, please contact sian@countermetrics.org.

Build your knowledge

• Syndicated usage and goodbye to DUL: how our syndicated usage best practice guidance replaces the old Distributed Usage Logging project.
• Choosing the right COUNTER report: why we recommend using the COUNTER Reports rather than the standard views.

Content usage insights with COUNTER Metrics and CLOCKSS

On 24th June join Alicia Wise, Executive Director at CLOCKSS, and Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Executive Director at COUNTER Metrics, for an exclusive webinar. They will be discussing how COUNTER’s metrics and CLOCKSS’s preservation services work hand-in-hand to enhance transparency, build trust, and ensure effective content tracking in the open access ecosystem.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to gain valuable insights on the future of open access!