Irus.mimas.ac.uk Institutional Repository Usage Statistics IRUS-UK in practice webinar, 7 th May 2015 Jo Alcock, Evidence Base Alison Sutton, University

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Institutional Repository Usage Statistics

IRUS-UK in practice webinar, 7th May 2015

Jo Alcock, Evidence BaseAlison Sutton, University of Reading

Amy Staniforth, Aberystwyth UniversityChris Biggs, Open University


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


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


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

http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/help/support/

http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/help/support/


How is IRUS-UK being used in different institutions?

Alison Sutton, University of Reading

Amy Staniforth, Aberystwyth University

Chris Biggs, Open University


University of ReadingAlison Sutton

LIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES | LIMITLESS IMPACTCopyright University of Reading

Institutional repository download reports using IRUS

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REPORTING TO MANAGEMENT

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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)

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Downloads for CentAUR in 2014

DOWNLOADS IN CENTAUR BY ITEM TYPE (IR2)

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Showing proportion and totals of downloads by type from CentAUR in 2014

DOWNLOADS IN CENTAUR BY ITEM TYPE (IR 2)

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Comparing downloads by type from CentAUR in 2013 and 2014

DOWNLOADS BY MONTH AND REPOSITORY (RR1)

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Article downloads in 2013 and 2014

ARTICLE DOWNLOADS FROM CENTAUR BY MONTH IN 2013 AND 2014 (RR1)

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ARTICLE DOWNLOADS FROM CENTAUR & OTHER REPOSITORIES BY MONTH IN 2014 (RR1)

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Aberystwyth UniversityAmy Staniforth

OA Repository Newsletter Aberystwyth University

Dr Amy Staniforth Institutional Repository & Metadata Team

Leader

Why a newsletter? And why IRUS-UK stats? 1

• IR, Cadair, xxxx

• Since 2012? IR & CRIS connection

• Dspace stats not working

• Loss of historical data…IRUS-UK??

Why a newsletter? And why IRUS-UK stats? 2

• Raise awareness of OA and AU systems

• Name people and articles – engagement

• Offer reusable statistics

Needs:

• Simple• Adaptable• Bilingual• Reliable & repeatable • Easy to share…

VERY basic but easy to use template

Aberystwyth’s DSpace institutional repository, Cadair

Newsletteritempage

IRUS-UK stats

PURE/CRIS stats

Weekly bulletin

Weekly bulletin cont.

• According to IRUS-UK stats (!) 45 downloads of the English newsletters and 5 of Welsh versions

• Consistency of presence is growing - Newsletter maybe reliable & familiar in this context…

• Having to see the stats ourselves!

So far…


Open UniversityChris Biggs

Repository rankings (RR1)…In a table

…Or as an image

Ranking Normalised Name Feb1 University College London - Discovery 337,203 3 University of Manchester - eScholar 206,159 2 Cambridge University - DSpace@Cambridge 195,086 4 ESRC - Research Catalogue 191,278 5 Oxford University - Research Archive 168,850 6 University of Southampton - ePrints Soton 107,433 7 University of Bristol - Explore Bristol Research 105,049 8 Nottingham Trent University - Institutional Repository 93,761 9 University of Edinburgh - Research Explorer 88,462

10 University of Glasgow - Enlighten 76,844 11 King's College London - Research Portal 57,409 12 Cardiff University - ORCA 56,834 13 University of Aberdeen - Library and Historical Collections Digital Resources 54,242 14 Queen's University Belfast - Research Portal 49,882 15 Lancaster University - ePrints 46,024 16 London School of Economics - LSE Research Online 45,660 17 STFC - ePublication Archive 40,380 19 Bath University - Online Publications Store 36,320 18 University of Strathclyde - Institutional Repository 36,148 20 University of East Anglia - Digital repository 34,717 21 University of Kent - Kent Academic Repository 34,062 22 University of Sussex - Sussex Research Online 31,851 23 University of Reading - Central Archive at the University of Reading 30,964 24 NERC - Open Research Archive 29,994 25 Newcastle University - ePrints 29,034 26 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - Research Online 28,082 27 The Open University - Open Research Online 27,821 28 University of Leicester - Leicester Research Archive 24,998 29 University of Dundee - Online Publications 22,467 30 University of Ulster - Ulster Institutional Repository 20,524

…especially compared side by side with OpenDoar counts

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Benchmarking Content Policies (IR2)

“If anyone is looking for stuff to do on ORO, these pairs of items are duplicates (by DOI) according to IRUS. Can we look at deleting (rather than removing) the item which has least accurate metadata or possibly has the lowest download stats?”

23736 & 2852434722 & 3440535104 & 3510637519 & 3562818562 & 1764434082 & 3409934917 & 3498226758 & 2409238244 & 3825615422 & 1310035461 & 3594733364 & 3029610649 & 2813840713 & 41389

Data Cleansing (DD1)


Q&A opportunityPlease type any questions into the chat box


Contacts

IRUS-UK

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Guest speakers

Alison Sutton - [email protected]

Amy Staniforth – [email protected]

Chris Biggs - [email protected]

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Irus.mimas.ac.uk Institutional Repository Usage Statistics IRUS-UK in practice webinar, 7 th May 2015 Jo Alcock, Evidence Base Alison Sutton, University