Using Metrics to Make Repository Decisions How to start collecting numbers and thinking about what they mean Hollie White hollie.white@law.duke.edu
Presentation Overview The Obvious Starting Systematic Collection Defining “Normal” Research Questions and Statistics
Readership Reports
Starting Systematic Collection Decide what you want to collect Create a frequency schedule Find a place to keep the numbers Identify people who will also want a regular update
bepress Usage Reports (downloads)
Google Analytics (visits)
What to Collect? Downloads (monthly and yearly) Overall downloads Collection level downloads (series too) Article level downloads by whole repository Article level downloads by collection Visits Total visits for week, month, year Average visits by day Visit spikes
Visits Downloads Citations
Every repository has a different normal
Custom Alerts
December 9, 2013 Domain URL Count www.standeyo.com/ http://www.standeyo.com/ 820 standeyo.com/ http://standeyo.com/ 658 scholarship.law.duke.edu http://scholarship.law.duke.edu 251 www.standeyo.com http://www.standeyo.com 56 standeyo.com http://standeyo.com Google total 54 millennium-ark.net/ http://millennium-ark.net/ 39 www.google.com http://www.google.com 38 www.millennium-ark.net/ http://www.millennium-ark.net/ 17 www.google.com/ http://www.google.com/ 11 50.56.203.236/ http://50.56.203.236/ 9 us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com http://us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com 8 standayo.com/ http://standayo.com/ 5 standeyo.org/ http://standeyo.org/ 4 www.facebook.com http://www.facebook.com millennium-ark.net http://millennium-ark.net 3 standayo.com http://standayo.com search.yahoo.com http://search.yahoo.com www.standayo.com/ http://www.standayo.com/ www.millennium-ark.net http://www.millennium-ark.net 2 www.ronpaulforums.com http://www.ronpaulforums.com daretoprepare.com/ http://daretoprepare.com/ webmail.c.earthlink.net http://webmail.c.earthlink.net 1 www.standeyo.net/ http://www.standeyo.net/ www.daretoprepare.com/ http://www.daretoprepare.com/ www.google.nl http://www.google.nl search.comcast.net/ http://search.comcast.net/ www.google.ca http://www.google.ca startpage.com http://startpage.com us-mg204.mail.yahoo.com http://us-mg204.mail.yahoo.com scholarship.law.duke.edu/ http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/ www.bing.com http://www.bing.com webmailab.netzero.net http://webmailab.netzero.net www.google.lv/ http://www.google.lv/ fr-mg42.mail.yahoo.com http://fr-mg42.mail.yahoo.com standeyo.net/ http://standeyo.net/ search.aol.com http://search.aol.com www.google.ca/ http://www.google.ca/ browser http://browser www.google.co.uk http://www.google.co.uk
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