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Dear all Earlier this week the 50th UK Institutional Repository (IR) saw its usage data starting to appear in IRUS-UK. Since we started gathering data, back in July 2012 (with 5 IRs), we have recorded a total of more than 8 million downloads of over 160,000 items from participating repositories. IRUS-UK is a Jisc-funded, national aggregation service which contains details of *all* content downloaded from participating UK IRs. IRUS-UK follows on from the successful PIRUS2 project ( http://www.cranfieldlibrary.cranfield.ac.uk/pirus2/tiki-index.php ), which demonstrated how COUNTER-compliant *article* usage statistics could be collected and consolidated from Publishers and Institutional Repositories. COUNTER have agreed and published the PIRUS Code of Practice http://www.projectcounter.org/pirus.html For further information or if you are interested in participating, see our website (http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/) or contact our helpdesk ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>). Best wishes Anne Anne Reed Mimas Development Officer (Metadata and Support), JUSP and IRUS-UK, Mimas, The University of Manchester, Room 5.9, Roscoe Building, Brunswick Street, Manchester, M13 9PL. +44 (0)161 2756053 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://jusp.mimas.ac.uk/ http://irus.mimas.ac.uk/