irus.mimas.ac.uk Institutional Repository Usage Statistics IRUS-UK in practice webinar, 7 th 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: 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

LIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES | LIMITLESS IMPACT Copyright University of Reading Institutional repository download reports using IRUS 7 REPORTING TO MANAGEMENT Library

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) 9 Downloads for CentAUR in 2014

DOWNLOADS IN CENTAUR BY ITEM TYPE (IR2) 10 Showing proportion and totals of downloads by type from CentAUR in 2014

DOWNLOADS IN CENTAUR BY ITEM TYPE (IR 2) 11 Comparing downloads by type from CentAUR in 2013 and 2014

DOWNLOADS BY MONTH AND REPOSITORY (RR1) 12 Article downloads in 2013 and 2014

ARTICLE DOWNLOADS FROM CENTAUR BY MONTH IN 2013 AND 2014 (RR1) 13

ARTICLE DOWNLOADS FROM CENTAUR & OTHER REPOSITORIES BY MONTH IN 2014 (RR1) 14 8 anonymised institutions

irus.mimas.ac.uk Aberystwyth University Amy Staniforth

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.

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! So far…

irus.mimas.ac.uk Open University Chris Biggs

Repository rankings (RR1) …In a table

…Or as an image

…especially compared side by side with OpenDoar counts

Top 15 monthly Downloads (IR1) – Using piktochart

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?” & & & & & & & & & & & & & & Data Cleansing (DD1)

irus.mimas.ac.uk Q&A opportunity Please type any questions into the chat box

irus.mimas.ac.uk Contacts IRUS-UK Guest speakers Alison Sutton - Amy Staniforth – Chris Biggs -