In the Netherlands, the SURF-funded SURE project ("Statistics on the
Usage of REpositories") has implemented a national infrastructure for
the collection of usage statistics of Dutch Universities. The
standardised usage data are currently stored in a central database which
can be queried through a number of web services. Statistical data about
individual publications will also be exposed via the Dutch national
research portal NARCIS.
Peter Verhaar
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Sent: donderdag 10 februari 2011 12:58
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Subject: Re: Repository use statistics
If it's important to compare article-level usage stats across
repositories and journals, then you might be interested in the work of
the PIRUS project, eg see:
http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/500/
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On 10/02/2011 11:44, Talat Chaudhri wrote:
> Just to add, having looked closely now at the MMU stats that Graham
> mentioned, that Google Analytics gives many other stats not found
> here, so I assume that these are just the ones that MMU have chosen to
> surface: for example, the referring pages statistics, as Rosemary
> mentions here, are not found here. Am I correct in this, Graham? You
> can also even do things of arguably less interest like find out who
> was using which browser, just to illustrate the sheer breadth of types
> of statistics offered by Google Analytics, for those who may not have
> seen them.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Talat
>
> On 10/02/2011 11:40, Rosemary Russell wrote:
>> The enquiry Talat mentioned came from me, since I'm currently writing
>> a selective review of the use of Dublin Core in the UK... I was
>> interested in the 'traffic sources' which Google Analytics provides,
>> in order to discover the percentage of repository accesses via
>> aggregated search services (using records harvested via OAI-PMH and
>> hence oai-dc). Kara Jones kindly provided Google Analytics stats for
>> Opus at the University of Bath, which showed traffic from only two
>> aggregators (ScientificCommons and BASE), and accounting for just
>> 0.85% and 0.21% of visits respectively in the last year. Google
>> meanwhile accounts for 55.6% of visits (not including Google
Scholar).
>>
>> So, as a corollary to Chris's question, I'd be interested if anyone
>> had any easily accessible stats which support (or negate!) those
>> above. I had assumed, wrongly, that traffic from aggregators would be
>> much more significant.
>>
>> Thanks, Rosemary
>>
>> On 10/02/2011 10:56, Talat Chaudhri wrote:
>>> This question came up for me too recently, in response to an
>>> enquiry. When I was a repository manager I had access to Google
>>> Analytics for my own institution's repository, as well as the DSpace
>>> stats, but I did wonder (a) how many other repositories were/are
>>> using Google Analytics; and (b) since these exist on private Google
>>> accounts, has anyone found any way to collect stats from multiple
>>> repositories over time in order to get a wider view. DSpace stats
>>> are less wide-ranging (although these may have been upgraded since
>>> then) but, if things remain as they were, they are publicly
>>> accessible. I have no information on other software platforms, e.g.
>>> EPrints, Fedora and commercial platforms, in this regard.
>>>
>>> The particular question that arose in this case was about referring
>>> pages, which Google Analytics provides good information about,
>>> amongst a whole host of other extremely useful and interesting
stats.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>> Talat Chaudhri
>>>
>>> On 10/02/2011 10:43, Chris Rusbridge wrote:
>>>> Does anyone have any good sources for comparative statistics on the
>>>> use made of institutional repositories? By this I mean accesses and
>>>> downloads, I guess.
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>
>>
>>
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>> Rosemary Russell
>> Research Officer
>> UKOLN, University of Bath
>> Bath BA2 7AY, UK
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