Institutional Repository Usage Statistics
IRUS-UK in practice webinar, 7th May 2015
Jo Alcock, Evidence Base
Alison Sutton, University of Reading
Amy Staniforth, Aberystwyth University
Chris Biggs, Open University
irus.mimas.ac.uk
What is IRUS-UK?
•
A national aggregation service, enabling UK IRs to share/expose usage
statistics at the individual item level, based on a global standard –
COUNTER
– Collect raw download data from UK IRs for *all item types* within repositories
– Process those raw data into COUNTER-compliant statistics
irus.mimas.ac.uk
How does IRUS-UK help institutions?
• Facilitates comparable, standards-based
measurements
• Provides an evidence base for repositories to develop
policies and initiatives to help support their objectives
• Provides consistent and comprehensive statistics,
presenting opportunities for benchmarking at a national
level
irus.mimas.ac.uk
How is IRUS-UK being used in different
institutions?
 Use cases online at:
http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/help/support/





Providing standards-based reliable repository statistics
Reporting to institutional managers
Reporting to researchers
Benchmarking
Supporting advocacy
irus.mimas.ac.uk
How is IRUS-UK being used in different
institutions?
 Alison Sutton, University of Reading
 Amy Staniforth, Aberystwyth University
 Chris Biggs, Open University
irus.mimas.ac.uk
University of Reading
Alison Sutton
irus.mimas.ac.uk
Library
REPORTING TO MANAGEMENT
Institutional repository download reports using IRUS
7
Copyright University of Reading
LIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES | LIMITLESS IMPACT
REPOSITORY DOWNLOAD REPORTS
FOR MANAGEMENT
Termly statistics reports to committee on research excellence, to:
•
•
•
•
Show what’s in CentAUR (EPrints institutional repository)
Show that downloads are increasing
Compare with competitor institutions
Evidence of value of repository - an incentive to add more content
8
NUMBER OF SUCCESSFUL ITEM REQUESTS
BY MONTH AND ITEM TYPE (IR2)
Downloads for CentAUR in 2014
9
DOWNLOADS IN CENTAUR BY ITEM TYPE (IR2)
Showing proportion and totals of downloads by type
from CentAUR in 2014
10
DOWNLOADS IN CENTAUR BY ITEM TYPE (IR 2)
Comparing downloads by type from CentAUR
in 2013 and 2014
11
DOWNLOADS BY MONTH AND REPOSITORY (RR1)
Article downloads in 2013 and 2014
12
ARTICLE DOWNLOADS FROM CENTAUR
BY MONTH IN 2013 AND 2014 (RR1)
13
ARTICLE DOWNLOADS FROM CENTAUR
& OTHER REPOSITORIES BY MONTH IN 2014 (RR1)
8 anonymised
institutions
14
Aberystwyth University
Amy Staniforth
irus.mimas.ac.uk
OA Repository Newsletter
Aberystwyth University
Dr Amy Staniforth
Institutional Repository & Metadata Team
Leader
Why a newsletter? And why IRUS-UK stats? 1
• IR, Cadair, xxxx
• Since 2012? IR & CRIS connection
• Dspace stats not working
• Loss of historical data…IRUS-UK??
Why a newsletter? And why IRUS-UK stats? 2
• Raise awareness of OA and AU systems
• Name people and articles – engagement
• Offer reusable statistics
Needs:
• Simple
• Adaptable
• Bilingual
• Reliable & repeatable
• Easy to share
…
VERY basic but easy to use template
Aberystwyth’s
DSpace
institutional
repository,
Cadair
Newsletter
item
page
IRUS-UK
stats
PURE/CRIS stats
Weekly bulletin
Weekly bulletin cont.
So far…
• According to IRUS-UK stats (!) 45 downloads
of the English newsletters and 5 of Welsh
versions
• Consistency of presence is growing Newsletter maybe reliable & familiar in this
context…
• Having to see the stats ourselves!
Open University
Chris Biggs
irus.mimas.ac.uk
Repository rankings (RR1)
…In a table
…Or as an image
Ranking Normalised Name
1 University College London - Discovery
3 University of Manchester - eScholar
2 Cambridge University - DSpace@Cambridge
4 ESRC - Research Catalogue
5 Oxford University - Research Archive
6 University of Southampton - ePrints Soton
7 University of Bristol - Explore Bristol Research
8 Nottingham Trent University - Institutional Repository
9 University of Edinburgh - Research Explorer
10 University of Glasgow - Enlighten
11 King's College London - Research Portal
12 Cardiff University - ORCA
13 University of Aberdeen - Library and Historical Collections Digital Resources
14 Queen's University Belfast - Research Portal
15 Lancaster University - ePrints
16 London School of Economics - LSE Research Online
17 STFC - ePublication Archive
19 Bath University - Online Publications Store
18 University of Strathclyde - Institutional Repository
20 University of East Anglia - Digital repository
21 University of Kent - Kent Academic Repository
22 University of Sussex - Sussex Research Online
23 University of Reading - Central Archive at the University of Reading
24 NERC - Open Research Archive
25 Newcastle University - ePrints
26 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - Research Online
27 The Open University - Open Research Online
28 University of Leicester - Leicester Research Archive
29 University of Dundee - Online Publications
30 University of Ulster - Ulster Institutional Repository
Feb
337,203
206,159
195,086
191,278
168,850
107,433
105,049
93,761
88,462
76,844
57,409
56,834
54,242
49,882
46,024
45,660
40,380
36,320
36,148
34,717
34,062
31,851
30,964
29,994
29,034
28,082
27,821
24,998
22,467
20,524
…especially compared side by
side with OpenDoar counts
Top 15
monthly
Downloads
(IR1) – Using
piktochart
Art/Design Item
Article
Audio
Book
Book Section
Conference or Workshop Item - Other
Conference Papers /Posters
Conference Proceedings
Dataset
Exam Paper
Image
Journal
Learning Object
Moving Image
Music/Musical Composition
Other
Patent
Performance
Preprint
Report
Show/Exhibition
Text
Thesis or dissertation
Unknown
Website
Working Paper
Open Research Exeter
(ORE)
University of Bath
Lancaster EPrints
Online Research @
Cardiff - ORCA
Goldsmiths Research
Online
Kent Academic
Repository - KAR
Edinburgh Research
Archive (ERA)
Manchester eScholar
NERC Open Research
Archive - NORA
Loughborough University
Institutional Repository
WRAP: Warwick Research
Archive Portal
White Rose Etheses
Online
White Rose Research
Online
Surrey Research Insight
Open Access
University of Birmingham
eTheses Repository
University of Salford USIR
LSE Research Online
University of
Southampton - ePrints
Soton
Open Research Online
Benchmarking Content
Policies (IR2)
“If anyone is looking for stuff to do on
ORO, these pairs of items are
duplicates (by DOI) according to IRUS.
Can we look at deleting (rather than
removing) the item which has least
accurate metadata or possibly has the
lowest download stats?”
23736 & 28524
34722 & 34405
35104 & 35106
37519 & 35628
18562 & 17644
34082 & 34099
34917 & 34982
26758 & 24092
38244 & 38256
15422 & 13100
35461 & 35947
33364 & 30296
10649 & 28138
40713 & 41389
Data
Cleansing
(DD1)
Q&A opportunity
Please type any questions into the chat box
irus.mimas.ac.uk
Contacts
IRUS-UK
[email protected]
Guest speakers
Alison Sutton - [email protected]
Amy Staniforth – [email protected]
Chris Biggs - [email protected]
irus.mimas.ac.uk