Announcing
PIRUS 2: a project to develop practical standards for recording and reporting
online usage at the individual article level
PIRUS 2, supported by JISC, the United Kingdom Joint Information Systems
Committee, is a co-operative project involving repositories and publishers,
which will develop a set of standards, protocols and processes to enable
publishers, repositories and other organizations to generate and share
authoritative, trustworthy usage statistics for the individual articles and
other items that they host.
PIRUS 2 builds on the standards already established by COUNTER and on the
results of the original PIRUS (Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage
Statistics) project, which demonstrated that it is technically feasible to
create record and consolidate usage statistics for individual articles using
data from repositories and publishers, despite the diversity of organizational
and technical environments in which they operate.
Until now the most granular level at which COUNTER requires reporting of usage
is at the individual journal level. A number of recent developments have,
however, means that it would now be appropriate to give a higher priority to
developing a COUNTER standard for the recording, reporting and consolidation of
usage statistics at the individual article level.
PIRUS 2 will seek to meet the following main objectives:
PIRUS
2 is lead by Mimas (The University of Manchester) and Cranfield University; the
other primary partners are COUNTER, Oxford University Press and CrossRef?. Oxford
University, Southampton University and other Institutional Repositories will
also participate in PIRUS 2, together with publishers, subject repositories and
related projects, in UK, EU and USA. Work on PIRUS 2 commenced in October 2009
and the final report will be published in December 2010.
For further information on PIRUS 2, please go to the project website at: http://www.cranfieldlibrary.cranfield.ac.uk/pirus2/
Regards
Paul A S Needham
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Research & Innovation Manager
Kings Norton Library
Cranfield University
Cranfield
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