1. Using Metrics to Make Repository Decisions
How to start collecting numbers and
thinking about what they mean
Hollie White

2. Presentation Overview
The Obvious
Starting Systematic Collection
Defining “Normal”
Research Questions and Statistics

4. Readership Reports

5. 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

6. bepress Usage Reports
(downloads)

7. Google Analytics
(visits)

8. 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

9. Visits
Downloads
Citations

11. Every repository
has a different normal

12. Custom Alerts

13. December 9, 2013 Domain URL Count www.standeyo.com/
820
standeyo.com/
658
scholarship.law.duke.edu
251 56
standeyo.com
Google total 54
millennium-ark.net/ 39 38 17 11 / 9
us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com 8
standayo.com/ 5
standeyo.org/ 4
millennium-ark.net 3
standayo.com
search.yahoo.com 2
daretoprepare.com/
webmail.c.earthlink.net 1
search.comcast.net/
startpage.com
us-mg204.mail.yahoo.com
scholarship.law.duke.edu/
webmailab.netzero.net
fr-mg42.mail.yahoo.com
standeyo.net/
search.aol.com
browser

14. What questions are important to your community?

15. Metadata/ Downloads Study
2013
2015
Metadata/
Downloads Study

16. Faculty Download Ranking Study

17. Thank You! Call or send questions to Hollie at
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