COUNTER provides the industry standard for consistent, credible, comparable usage metrics of online content. Founded in 2003, we are a not-for-profit company based in the UK with an international membership and cross-community reach. We are growing, and are now seeking a part-time Member Engagement and Communications Manager to work closely with our Project Director and […]
During summer 2022 we sent out a community consultation for Release 5.1 of the COUNTER Code of Practice (CoP). The Project Director offered three public webinars, scheduled to allow maximum participation across all time zones, as well as a wrap-up video offering the same content plus responses to all of the questions raised during the […]
First released in 2017, Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice (CoP) incorporates the concept of continuous maintenance. Thus far changes to Release 5 have been very small. In the last year COUNTER’s volunteer teams, led by the Technical Advisory Group, have been working on a more significant update to the Code of Practice […]
We are grateful for the support of our members at our Annual General meeting on Wednesday 27 April 2022. It was fantastic to see so many of you there. You can download the slides presented at the event and read the minutes here, or contact our Project Director (tasha.mellins-cohen@counterusage.org) if you’ve any questions.
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COUNTER has provided the standard that enables the knowledge community to count the use of electronic resources in a consistent, credible and comparable way since its foundation in 2003. Lorraine Estelle has been COUNTER Project Director since 2015 and will be retiring in April 2022. Following a rigorous search process with a large number […]
A free COUNTER webinar for content providers. Overview This is an essential webinar for content providers that are compliant with the COUNTER Code of Practice. It explains how to: Communicate your compliance, ensure that your library customers know which COUNTER reports are available and how to get them, enable libraries and library consortia to automatically […]
PLOS becoming a publisher compliant with the COUNTER Code of Practice