Building community collaboration in the development of a standard

COUNTER is a community of members including libraries, library consortia, vendors and publishers. Together they have collaborated to create the COUNTER Code of Practice and the tools and guides which support it. This session will celebrate that achievement, but also take a practical look at what is required to build relationships across all the stakeholders and to foster collaborative work practices and governance.

As open access drives a change in scholarly communication, needs of all stakeholders will change, and indeed relationships need to be built with new stakeholders, for example, open access publishers and the funders of research. The session will also consider how COUNTER will continue its community collaboration in a time of change.