COUNTER Newsletter, November 2024
15 November 2024We have today sent out our November 2024 newsletter. Here’s what we said:
We held our first focus group on GenAI at the end of October and have plenty of useful insight to digest from that. There will be one or two follow-up sessions in January specifically for publishers who are experimenting with GenAI tools. If you want to get involved, please let us know.
Our latest newsletter includes details of our next webinar, which is free to COUNTER members. We also include a new ‘Build your knowledge’ section to highlight some recent technical insight that we have shared, as well as some reminders and other ways to get involved.
One last thing to note: the COUNTER office will be closed from Wednesday the 18th of December 2024 to Monday the 6th of January 2025 so that Siân and I can both take a well-earned break for the holidays. If you’ve got questions, please get them over to us before then!
Free webinar for members
Join our next Introduction To COUNTER Reports webinar, which is free to members. This one-and-a-half hour webinar is scheduled for 12 December at 15:00 GMT.
Build your knowledge
- When to expect Release 5.1 reports – answering common questions about Release 5.1
- Common validation errors: learning from others’ mistakes – highlighting some common errors we are seeing in validation and how to fix them
- Free to read? – clearing up some misconceptions around the inclusion of the new Free_To_Read Access Type alongside Controlled and Open
Check your records
We sent out COUNTER membership renewals in October and are absolutely delighted that over 30% of you have already renewed. One thing we’ve noticed is that some finance teams still have old addresses for COUNTER, mostly from Lorraine’s tenure but in some cases dating all the way back to before Peter retired in 2015.
Please take a moment to check your records: If the address doesn’t match the one on your membership renewal invoice, we’d really appreciate you updating it.
Making sure Tasha (tasha@countermetrics.org) is the primary contact would be helpful, too. And for those of you receiving this who aren’t members… COUNTER relies almost entirely on membership dues, so if you value the Code of Practice and everything that we do to support it, please do join us!
Call for case studies: share how you use COUNTER data
Do you want to share how you use COUNTER data? We are looking for case studies. This is your opportunity to showcase what you are doing with COUNTER data and how you are innovating to uncover new insights about your work. We want to hear your COUNTER case study!
Migrating the Media Library
One of the goals of our website rebuild earlier this year was to make our Release 5.1 educational material available through the main website, keeping the Release 5 materials available on the Media Library.Since Release 5 will be superseded by Release 5.1 in January, we will be moving the old R5 videos to a closed archive and closing the Media Library. The Friendly Guides and manuals will remain available on the Education pages of our website. If you have any bookmarks to the media library, you’ll be automatically redirected to the website homepage from 2025 onwards.