Hi all
Ross MacIntyre of IRUS-UK spoke to UKCoRR at our membership meeting last Friday. Slides and recording are available at:
http://ukcorr.org/2012/11/14/irus-uk-usage-stats-and-repositories/
Nick
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From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jo Lambert
Sent: 15 November 2012 09:53
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Subject: Re: Downloads from IRs
Dear Andy,
You may be interested in IRUS-UK, which could provide an answer to your question. This developing service consolidates COUNTER-compliant statistics to enable repositories to benchmark their usage against other repositories in the UK.
IRUS-UK follows on from the very successful PIRUS2 project, which demonstrated how article-level (COUNTER-compliant) usage statistics could be collected, JISC have provided funding to take forward the UK Institutional Repository aspects in the form of IRUS-UKą. IRUS-UK is a wave 1 component of UK RepositoryNet+, the JISC funded repository and infrastructure service. IRUS is currently funded to establish a national aggregation service. It will ultimately contain details of all material downloaded from participating IRs, including downloads for full-text articles, theses, conference papers, technical reports, etc. IRUS will help to demonstrate the value and impact of institutional repositories and provide an evidence base for repositories to develop policies and initiatives to help support their objectives.
IRUS-UK is being developed by a consortium involving Mimas at The University of Manchester, Cranfield University and Evidence Base at Birmingham City University. You can find our more by visiting our website which is available at http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk
You (and others) are welcome to get in touch at [log in to unmask] if you would like further information about participating. You may also be interested in an article about IRUS-UK which appears in the latest issue of Insights: the UKSG journal. An OA copy of the article is also available via our website at http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/news/
Best wishes
Jo
On 13/11/2012 12:02, "Andy Barrow" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>JISC-REPOSITORIES Comardes,
>
>Downloads from IRs
>
>Our repository contains 6,800 deposits, of which 1,750 are accompanied
>by some form of full text. We measure our weekly downloads and
>regularly see numbers of downloads in excess of 1,500. How do other
>repositories compare?
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Andy
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