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Annual General Meeting 2019

Join us at the COUNTER Annual General Meeting in Telford, UK on April 8, 2019. Agenda includes directors' report, financial accounts, director appointments, and appointment of auditors.

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Annual General Meeting 2019

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  1. Annual General Meeting 2019 Telford, UK, 8 April 5:10 BST

  2. Agenda • Minutes of the last meeting on 9 April 2018 in Glasgow, Scotland and via GoToMeeting • Receive and Accept the Directors’ Report for 2018 • Receive and Accept the Financial Accounts for 2018 • Appoint Heather Staines and Ross MacIntyre as Directors for a further three years • Appoint the firm of  A J Carter & Co as auditors for 2019

  3. Minutes of the COUNTER AGM Mon, Apr 9, 2018 5:10 PM - 6:10 PM BST Last year it was resolved to: Accept the Directors’ Report Accept the Financial Accounts • Appointment of new a new Director: Elizabeth Ling • Renewal of existing Director: Oliver Pesch • Appointment of the firm A.J.Carter as auditors

  4. Agenda • Receive and Accept the Directors’ Report for 2018 • Receive and Accept the Financial Accounts for 2018 • Appoint Heather Staines and Ross MacIntyre as directors for a further three years • Appoint the firm of  A J Carter & Co as auditors for 2019

  5. Our report to members Supporting the transition to Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice The Technical Advisory Group answered over 200 bespoke questions and gave approximately 500 person-hours in supporting the COUNTER community as it implemented Release 5

  6. Our report to members In 2018 COUNTER presented nine webinars in three languages: recordings are available on our YouTube Channel

  7. Support Online Tutorials, Friendly Guides, and email forums

  8. Our report to members • Development of Tools • Code of Practice for Research Data • Distributed Usage Logging

  9. Listening to our members Feedback from you informs our operational plan • More guides • Webinars • Stricter audits • COUNTER Release 5 Consortia Harvesting Tool • “sweet spot” of frequency for updating the CoP

  10. Welcoming 12 new members • DataCite • Ex Libris • Frontiers in Bioscience • Overt Software Solutions • Texas State Library and Archives Commission • University of Central Florida • ATLANTIS • AtoZdatabase • The Broad Institute • Cabell’s International • Canadian Electronic Library • Canadian Science Publishing

  11. Continuing support from our members and sponsors Gold Sponsor Scholarly iQ • Silver Sponsors • ABCAtmireBPA WorldwideIOP PublishingJiscMPSSpringer Nature Bronze Sponsor Sage Publishing

  12. The Financial Accounts for 2018 Statement of Income and Retained Earnings year ended 31st December 2018 Our balance sheet

  13. Appointment of DirectorsRenewals for a further three years Ross MacIntyre Heather Ruland Staines

  14. Auditors • Appoint the firm of  A J Carter & Co as auditors for 2019

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