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Fix Release 5.1.0.1 has been published

14 January 2025

As publishers and technology providers have worked through the process of updating their systems to comply with Release 5.1 of the COUNTER Code of Practice, they have raised questions that revealed some inconsistencies and poor wording in the Code. Under our continuous maintenance process, we have been able to compile a series of clarifications and corrections into a Fix release, R5.1.0.1, which is now live.

What’s changed?

R5.1.0.1 includes a series of bug fixes related to the JSON schema and the COUNTER API (sushi) specification, as well as amendments to the list of permitted attribute values for Data_Type and Parent_Data_Type.

There are also a variety of text edits and clarifications, including but not limited to how to report on usage when Access_Type changes mid-month and how to report on usage when a journal’s name is changed.

Finally, we have also improved the sample reports available in Appendix G.

A full change log is available from our GitHub repository.

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