Implementation and Compliance
Tagging posts relevant to our Friendly Guide to COUNTER Implementation and Compliance
Claiming compliance in a press release?
This is the latest in our series of posts responding to questions from the COUNTER community. This time, we’re looking at what happens when a publisher or technology provider puts…
Retiring Release 5
One of the questions that comes to me reasonably frequently is about when Release 5 will be retired. The answer, of course, is “it depends on what you mean by…
New page on audit communication
We’ve had some people ask for more information about how to keep us informed of their audit progress. To help them, and you, we’ve set up a new page on…
Best practice guidance: Pathway to Compliance
One of our strategic objectives is to reduce barriers to compliance with the COUNTER Code of Practice, particularly for smaller groups who lack technical expertise. As part of those efforts,…
Pathways to Compliance: consultation outcomes and next steps
We’re excited to share a progress update following our open consultation on the draft Pathways to Compliance best practice guidelines. The consultation ran from early December 2025 to early February…
Consultation: Pathways to Compliance
We shared an update from our working group on Pathways to Compliance in October. Today, we’re pleased to say that we have some draft best practice guidelines for our community…
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…
Exception codes for when legacy data don’t exist in R5.1 reports
In a recent post we described how a publisher should signal that it has moved from Release 5 to Release 5.1 in their COUNTER API (sushi) responses, using Exception code…
Platforms live with Release 5.1
Release 5.1 of the Code of Practice came into force in January, with a requirement for reports to be delivered by the 28th of February. Information about which data hosts…