It's been a busy year - Release 5.1, COUNTER Conference, new Validator, COUNTER Academy and now 3 consultations live. We are now taking a break for the holidays. We wish you all a relaxing, happy holiday whatever you'll be doing, and a great start to 2026. www.countermetrics.org/holiday-2025/

Building out the materials for @countermetrics.bsky.social Academy took a lot of time and careful thought, ably assisted by @sianharris.bsky.social and with AMAZING modules contributed by @athenahoeppener.bsky.social and Beda Kosata.

Congratulations to our first COUNTER Academy graduates! Our first in-depth online course saw a completion rate of 86% and many positive comments from participants. Our second course starts in February. www.countermetrics.org/congratulati...

Last year we held a members-only webinar on "Introduction to COUNTER Reports". The recording of that webinar is now available to everyone: www.countermetrics.org/counter-repo...

Hey #librarians, did you know you can access @countermetrics.bsky.social#librariansstatistics on the APA admin center? Check out this video tutorial to learn how: https://bit.ly/3MlTJQ3

COUNTER Releases Draft: Best Practice Guidance For Reporting #AI Usage; Feedback Welcome www.infodocket.com/2025/12/08/c... #GenAI #scholcomm #publishing #publishers #libraries #metrics @countermetrics.bsky.social

We have now launched the third of our current consultations: on AI metrics. Read about it and respond here: www.countermetrics.org/ai-consultat...

TL,DR: Publishers have 28 days to deliver @countermetrics.bsky.social reports - so November 2025 will be available on 28 December. If you're trying to get them now, it's too early.

At COUNTER we sometimes get questions about the timing of COUNTER-compliant reports becoming available. In today's blog post, @tashamc.bsky.social addresses a couple of these common questions. www.countermetrics.org/harvest-seas...

The second of our three current consultations is out today! This one is on Reporting to Multiple Institutional Identities. Please take a look and share your feedback and suggestions. www.countermetrics.org/consultation...

We sent out our November COUNTER newsletter today. You can read it all here: www.countermetrics.org/newsletter-n...

We have just launched the first of three consultations. This one is on pathways to compliance. What incremental steps could non-compliant publishers could take to make their usage reporting easier to access and more valuable to report consumers? Have your say! www.countermetrics.org/pathways-con...

We sometimes get asked why COUNTER doesn't have a ChatBot. The very short answer is that we can't find one that works well enough yet but we are looking. Tasha explains more: www.countermetrics.org/no-chatbot-y...

89% of respondents are either happy or very happy with what COUNTER is doing. Thank you to everyone who responded to our survey. Take a look at some of our other findings. www.countermetrics.org/survey-high-...

In our latest tech blog post learn how to protect the COUNTER API from automated bots, scripts, and other malicious actors, without creating problems for libraries. www.countermetrics.org/protect-api/

We've already had a brilliant set of 197 responses. Thank you to all who have taken the time to provide your feedback. If you use COUNTER and have not done our survey yet can you help us get past 200 by the end of tomorrow?

Reminder: our survey closes at the end of October. Thank you for the amazing response rate we've already had but, if you've not yet had your say, this is your chance. Survey is open to anyone who uses COUNTER, members and non-members, in any job function. countermetrics.glueup.com/campaign/sur...

Host types are an essential part of the Code of Practice, defining which reports publishers must deliver. We've put together a new guide to help you understand what you can expect to see and where. www.countermetrics.org/host-report-...

@r4lpartnership.bsky.social webinar on 21 October will be on COUNTER Metrics and @tashamc.bsky.social will be speaking. Learn more and register: www.research4life.org/other/join-u...

To increase adoption and use of COUNTER metrics worldwide, we want to reduce barriers to compliance for report providers who lack technical expertise and who are not currently able to become compliant. A new working group is looking at this challenge. www.countermetrics.org/pathways-gro...

Last week we sent out our September COUNTER newsletter. If you missed it you can read it here: www.countermetrics.org/newsletter-s...

In June the COUNTER membership approved changes to our member benefits list and to our member structure. Our latest post outlines key practical information you need to know about membership pricing for 2026. www.countermetrics.org/member-rates...

In our latest post getting to know some of the people who volunteer their time with COUNTER, we hear from committee member @heatherstaines.bsky.social - and we also get to see a picture of her singing with a band. www.countermetrics.org/interview-he...

If you are at #ALPSP25 this week do say hello to COUNTER's Tasha Mellins-Cohen www.countermetrics.org/alpsp-25/

Tabular versions of COUNTER reports are typically delivering in .tsv (tab separated value) format. We often get asked how to load .tsv files into Excel. Tasha has put together a short video using a sample Title Report to show you how it’s done. www.countermetrics.org/load-tsv-exc...

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. Read our latest blog post to find out what the group has been doing and what is planned. www.countermetrics.org/ai-bots-group/

Tell us what we're getting right - and wrong - by responding to the @countermetrics.bsky.social survey. It's open to everyone, not just members, and is your chance to shape what we do.

We have just launched our 2025 survey. Tell us what you think of Release 5.1, our tools and education materials and COUNTER in general. And let us know your hope for the Code in the future. Thank you for being part of the COUNTER community. www.countermetrics.org/2025-survey/

We always recommend using the COUNTER reports rather than the standard views. Our new guide has comparison tables to help you spot the limitations of standard views. www.countermetrics.org/comparing-re...

Bernd Oberknapp recently delivered a webinar about Release 5.1 in German to more than a hundred people across Germany. Bernd has kindly made his slides available for the whole community. www.countermetrics.org/all-about-re...

How do you tell your users that older data aren’t available in R5.1, and that they need to request the information in legacy R5 format instead? Our new blog post looks at exception codes for when legacy data don't exist in R5.1 reports. www.countermetrics.org/exception-on...

COUNTER has a new Validator! Read about it and watch the video demo to learn more about how it works. www.countermetrics.org/validator-vi...

Our first COUNTER Academy has started today! It's great to see our first cohort already engaging with the content. If you would like to be part of a future cohort please register your interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

How COUNTER Metrics and @clockssarchive.bsky.social work together to support open access - catch up on our recent webinar and read some of the highlights www.countermetrics.org/clockss-webi...

What exception codes should you use when COUNTER Release 5 reports are no longer available? Read this new blog post to find out. www.countermetrics.org/exception-no...

The project to reassess and update @countermetrics.bsky.social membership benefits and structure has taken a long time (more than 18 months to date!), but it will make a big difference to our long-term sustainability as an organisation.

And the video is now available! youtu.be/f0cY0T7z238

From 2026 there will be some changes to the membership structure of COUNTER, unanimously voted in at the recent AGM. Learn more about what will change, and about the member benefits: www.countermetrics.org/member-chang...

We've got some *great* free events coming up, curated by Gali Halevi! If the world is just too much, come join us for some fun and intellectual conversation. First up are @tashamc.bsky.social‬ (@countermetrics.bsky.social‬ ) and our @wisealic.bsky.social‬:

The COUNTER office is closed this week. The team are having a much-needed break between the conference finishing and the Academy starting. Please be patient; we'll reply when we are back at our desks. www.countermetrics.org/beach-jun25/

Thank you to Clarivate, Thieme and Scholarly IQ for sponsoring free spaces for librarians on the first COUNTER Academy course. www.countermetrics.org/thank-you-ac...

Thank you for all the interest in the COUNTER Academy. We have had a lot of interest so we have just published a post detailing how we will allocate spaces on our first cohort. www.countermetrics.org/academy-allo...

We've written a short post about yesterday's COUNTER conference. There was lots of food for thought in the meeting and we will be sharing more over the coming weeks. www.countermetrics.org/2025-confere...

Thank you to all our speakers and everyone who attended our #COUNTER25 conference today. Thank you for the interesting presentations and the engaging discussions. See you next year! (And, if you joined us today, please do fill in our quick survey!)

Later today in the COUNTER conference #COUNTER25 we will be sharing the new Validation Tool. Learn more here: www.countermetrics.org/validator-be...

It's COUNTER conference week! @tashamc.bsky.social @sianharris.bsky.social and all our speakers have been busy putting together what we hope will be a great half day. If you are a COUNTER member and are yet to register, do join us! www.countermetrics.org/counter-conf...

COUNTER has been working on building our global community. Learn more about our members and wider community worldwide in this new blog post. www.countermetrics.org/global-commu...

Following on from our post earlier this year about COUNTER audit extensions, this new post explains what happens when they expire. www.countermetrics.org/audit-extens...

Where to start with all the misconceptions in this update?!? 1. The latest iteration of @countermetrics.bsky.social - R5.1 - built OA usage metrics into the Code and from Jan '25, multiple publishers have offered our OA optimised Global Item Reports

We've had a few queries about the COUNTER conference tickets that are allocated to library consortia. If your library is part of a consortium that is a COUNTER member then you need to contact your consortium for confirmation before contacting us. countermetrics.glueup.com/event/counte...