Metrics
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Key Takeaways from COUNTER’s AI Usage Metrics Consultation
Thank you to everyone in the community who participated in COUNTER’s Generative and Agentic AI usage metrics consultation. Your responses to the survey, by email, and in-person at NISO Plus…
Low usage?
We’ve had quite a few questions in recent months from libraries and publishers who’ve noted a decrease in usage. The first question we always ask is, of course, whether they’re…
Generative and Agentic AI: updates from our working group
What is COUNTER doing about generative and agentic AI and bots? This is a task that one of our new working groups has begun to look at. At the first…
Counting usage for Tables of Contents
Release 5.1 brought usage tracking for books and reference works into line with that for other data types like journals and multimedia, but there are still some complexities. This post…
Choosing the right COUNTER metric
One of the most common questions people ask us is which metric libraries should be using to assess return on investment. As it says in our FAQs, that depends on…