We published the COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data in August 2018. Since then it has been implemented by Cal Tech Data, DataONE, Dryad, Figshare and Zenodo. The Code of Practice for Research Data Usage Metrics Release 1 is aligned as much as possible with the COUNTER Code of Practice Release 5 which standardizes […]
There is a need for the consistent and credible reporting of research data usage. Such usage metrics are required as an important component in understanding how publicly available research data are being reused. To address this need, COUNTER and members of the Make Data Count team (California Digital Library, DataCite, and DataONE) collaborated in drafting […]