COUNTER Metrics

We were founded in 2003 to resolve a problem: every publishing platform was reporting usage differently.

For 21 years we’ve remained true to our mission to bring the knowledge community together to agree and adopt a global standard for measuring and reporting content usage through normalised metrics.

Over that time the Code has evolved significantly to address the changing nature of digital content and to meet the needs of librarians, consortia, publishers, aggregators and other stakeholders who rely on COUNTER metrics.

We are a not-for-profit organisation financially sustained by our global community of members, including libraries, consortia, publishers, aggregators, and technology providers. Many of our members also help COUNTER through their efforts as volunteers, contributing to our governance, development of the Code of Practice, and our outreach and education activities.