From the end of September COUNTER will no longer be updating or monitoring this account. This post explains more. Thank you for being connected with us here. We hope you will continue the conversations with us on LinkedIn and BlueSky.

In the first of a new series of occasional posts to get to know people within the COUNTER community we interview David Sommer, chair of the COUNTER Executive Committee.

People often ask us about privacy and COUNTER usage data. In this video Tasha explains how COUNTER requires content providers to protect user privacy at both the individual and the institutional level.

We are often asked questions about COUNTER audits. In this video from our COUNTER conference earlier this year Kathryn Hodgkinson and Andy Flint of Audit Bureau of Circulations Ltd explain how COUNTER audits work and answer your questions.

We sent out a email newsletter last week. If you missed it you can read it all here: Highlights include our COUNTdown to Release 5.1, a new validation tool, some great ways to get involved, and our imminent departure from X.

We are pleased to say that the COUNTER community continues to be happy with COUNTER. In our latest satisfaction survey 86% of respondents said they were happy or very happy with what COUNTER is doing.

It's the final day to complete our annual COUNTER satisfaction survey. Tell us what you think and help guide our activities over the next year.

Our annual COUNTER satisfaction survey is closing tomorrow. Don't forget to tell us what you think and help guide our activities over the next year.

Over the 21 years of COUNTER we have benefitted from the generous support of a range of sponsors and partners. Find out about our current supporters and how you can help COUNTER continue to ensure usage metrics are credible, consistent & comparable.

Tasha will be at conferences for much of September. Do take a look at our website for where you can catch up with her. But also please bear with us if it takes a bit longer to answer queries.

We are pleased to share that the COUNTER Validation Tool has been updated to support Release 5.1 of the Code of Practice. The tool is free to use. Find out more and create and account to use it here -

Our annual COUNTER satisfaction survey is closing on 7th Sept. Don't forget to tell us what you think and help guide our activities over the next year.

RT @alpsp: 👥 Join us on 1 October at Arundel House, London, for a thought-provoking seminar on Plan S and Beyond for Publishers and Societi….

Do you want to validate a response from a COUNTER API (sushi) server for COUNTER Release 5.1 using the OpenAPI specification? In this guest post, Beda Kosata from our partner Big Dig Data, the developers of the COUNTER harvesting tool Celus, explains how.

We are pleased to share our latest best practice guidance on syndicated usage. Thank you to all who participated in our community consultation on this earlier in the year.

We will be running focus groups to help shape the development of COUNTER's code - do join us!.

Have your say on key issues as COUNTER develops; join one of our new focus groups!. The first groups will meet in Sept/Oct. They will require very little prep time and just one meeting. Find out more about how to get involved.

RT @alpsp: 👥 Join us on 1 October at Arundel House, London. The day's programme will be followed by a panel discussion, Q&As, informal net….

Let us know what you think about COUNTER! Fill in our short satisfaction survey to help guide our activities over the next year.

Thank you to everyone who responded to our consultation on our syndicated usage policy and provided useful feedback. The exec committee will be discussing it later this month.