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-UK©ö. 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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>Science Librarian & IR Manager
>University Library
>University of Portsmouth
>PORTSMOUTH
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