The section provides a step-by-step approach for repositories to share views and downloads. This work was done as part of the Make Data Count project. Repositories wanting to contribute and consume views and downloads should follow these steps.

1. The counter code of practice

2. Processing views and downloads

3. Contributing views and downloads

4. Consuming views and downloads

5. Use case: California digital library

Read the usage stats guidelines to learn more about how DataCite search already displays information about usage stats.