Jo Alcock, Evidence Base Alison Sutton, University of Reading Amy Staniforth, Aberystwyth ...

37 Pages·2015·2.1 MB·English

by  Jo Alcock

Institutional Repository Usage Statistics
IRUS-UK in practice webinar, 7th May 2015
Jo Alcock, Evidence Base
Alison Sutton, University of Reading
Amy Staniforth, Aberystwyth University
Chris Biggs, Open University
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What is IRUS-UK?
• A national aggregation service, enabling UK IRs to share/expose usage
statistics at the individual item level, based on a global standard –
COUNTER
– Collect raw download data from UK IRs for *all item types* within repositories
– Process those raw data into COUNTER-compliant statistics
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How does IRUS-UK help institutions?
• Facilitates comparable, standards-based
measurements
• Provides an evidence base for repositories to develop
policies and initiatives to help support their objectives
• Provides consistent and comprehensive statistics,
presenting opportunities for benchmarking at a national
level

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How is IRUS-UK being used in different
institutions?
 Use cases online at:
http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/help/support/
 Providing standards-based reliable repository statistics
 Reporting to institutional managers
 Reporting to researchers
 Benchmarking
 Supporting advocacy
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How is IRUS-UK being used in different
institutions?

 Alison Sutton, University of Reading
 Amy Staniforth, Aberystwyth University
 Chris Biggs, Open University
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University of Reading
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REPORTING TO MANAGEMENT
Institutional repository download reports using IRUS
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LIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES | LIMITLESS IMPACT
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REPOSITORY DOWNLOAD REPORTS
FOR MANAGEMENT

Termly statistics reports to committee on research excellence, to:

• Show what’s in CentAUR (EPrints institutional repository)
• Show that downloads are increasing
• Compare with competitor institutions
• Evidence of value of repository - an incentive to add more content

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NUMBER OF SUCCESSFUL ITEM REQUESTS
BY MONTH AND ITEM TYPE (IR2)
Downloads for CentAUR in 2014
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DOWNLOADS IN CENTAUR BY ITEM TYPE (IR2)
Showing proportion and totals of downloads by type
from CentAUR in 2014
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