1. Institutional Repository Statistics
Katie Evans, Repository Support Librarian

2. Set up and sorts of stats
Pure + EPrints = Opus
Internal management statistics
Pure reports & EPrints searches
Work in progress: Scopus citations data in Pure
Usage statistics & encouraging good practice
IR Stats
Google analytics
Internal CRIS which feeds publicly visible hybrid IR.
Two categories of statistics we use:
Repository profiling statistics, used to report internally on the volume of material in the repository and proportion of open access
Usage statistics: IR stats give statistics about full text downloads from EPrints and some information about where visitors come from, search terms used etc. Our IR Stats dashboard is publicly accessible, but it’s not linked from our repository website, so in practice it’s only used by repository staff and a handful of interested individuals
Google analytics gives stats about traffic to repository website, only accessible to repository staff, used for occasional reporting
We use stats in ‘success stories’ as a way of promoting the repository and encouraging full-text deposit

3. Open Access Temperature Chart
Regular report to University Research Committee:
by department
count of publications in repository
how many are open access
Also, from Web of Science:
comparison with competitors
volume of publishing
number and rate of citations
Regular report to University research committee
Focuses on REF period
Has enabled us to target departments with low OA rates
As well as f/t in repository, we count reliable free full text links as OA
Shows increasing rates of OA over time, currently 25% of items in repository published in REF period are OA
Departmental statistics mostly generated by a Pure report, but at the moment have to manually search Eprints to count free-full text links

4. Why display download stats?
Example:
‘Stickier’ webpages
Indicate quality?
For authors

5. Other repositories displaying statistics
University of Huddersfield
University for the Creative Arts
University of Glasgow
… and many more!

6. OA + promotion = winning combination?
Brian Kelly & Jenny Delasalle on linking strategies Brian’s top 10 tips on making OA research visible:
Increasing citations is major concern for the University, want to improve our position in league table rankings
We want the University’s research to be cited more.
Brian Kelly is our most downloaded author. Downloads don’t necessarily equate to citations, but it seems plausible that the more a piece of research is read, the more likely it is to be cited. And increasing the visibility of research is good for other reasons to – the University’s reputation and recruitment etc
Brian’s ideas on why is work is downloaded so much: he’s very active in social media and makes sure to link to his papers in our repository. “It’s all about links”.
1 minute presentation at OR12.
From Open Access week 2012: Brian’s top 10 tips for making open access research visible online, includes ‘be proactive’ and ‘don’t forget the links’ and ‘know your limits’ – can’t use all social media services, be selective
All of Brian’s analysis is backed up by download statistics taken from our repository (from IR Stats).

7. Not just for social media enthusiasts!
“Constructing and rendering vectorised photographic images” Over 1,600 downloads in less than a week! Why? Press release + industry conference demo
Brian Kelly is an expert in social media, people interested in his work are likely to be using social media. Can the same tactic of putting an OA copy in our repository and then promoting it by linking in work in other fields?
Happened to notice that this paper had a staggering number of downloads. Contacted the author to ask why. Again, the combination of the work being available open access from our repository and targeted promotion by the author. In this case, researcher are looking for more partners from industry to develop the work, so they’re monitoring repository download stats with interest.

8. Using stats in advocacy and training
Increasing citations good practice guide Blog: Open Access at Bath
Blog is a new venture to raise awareness of and promote open access. It’s aimed at Univeristy of Bath researchers. We are blogging about download statistics in the hope of encouraging authors to deposit full text.
We produce a range of ‘in a nutshell’ guides on using the repository, open access, copyright, bibliometrics etc.
In our ‘good practice for improving citations to your published work’ guide we advise researchers to deposit work in repository and disseminate widely – conferences, social media, press releases etc. The guide also covers writing a good abstract, citation analysis and impact factors, collaboration, copyright and warns against citation clubs.
Guide is available from Opus ‘authors’ corner’ website, we hand it out at training sessions for postgrads & researchers and other events.

9. Any questions?
Katie Evans Repository Support Librarian University of Bath Join UKCoRR: