<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">*apologies for cross-posting*</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">COUNTER currently has three best practice consultations open: </div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><a href="https://www.countermetrics.org/pathways-consultation/" target="_blank">Consultation: Pathways to Compliance</a> - incremental steps that non-compliant publishers could take to make their usage reporting easier to access and more valuable to report consumers</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><a href="https://www.countermetrics.org/consultation-multi-id/" target="_blank">Consultation: Reporting to Multiple Institutional Identities</a> - ways that publishers could manage usage reporting where users are linked to multiple institutional identities</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><a href="https://www.countermetrics.org/ai-consultation/" target="_blank">Consultation: AI metrics</a> - mechanisms for reporting generative and agentic artificial intelligence usage</li></ul></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">We want to make sure that our guidelines and approaches work for as many people as possible, so we really want to hear from you. Whether you are a technology provider, a publisher, a librarian or a consortium manager, please send us your feedback! And please do share with others in your organisations.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Our current consultations will be open until 09.00 GMT on Monday 9 February 2026.<br><br>COUNTER members are also eligible to sign up for the <a href="https://countermetrics.glueup.com/event/counter-consultation-three-webinar-series-january-2026-162536/" target="_blank">series of webinars</a> we’ll be running in January – one on each consultation.</div></div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">All the best</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Tasha</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Tasha Mellins-Cohen</font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Executive Director, COUNTER Metrics</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Email: <a href="mailto:tasha@countermetrics.org" target="_blank">tasha@countermetrics.org</a><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p>

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