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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]).
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