Transcript IRUS-UK

Institutional Repository Usage Statistics
Repository Managers Webinar
17 April 2013
Balviar Notay, Jisc
Ross Macintyre, Mimas
Paul Needham, Cranfield University
Angela Conyers, Evidence Base, BCU
IRUS-UK
 Funded by Jisc as part of UK RepositoryNet+
 Led by Mimas
 Primary Project Team Members:
 Mimas
 Cranfield University
 EvidenceBase, BCU
 IRUS-UK: Institutional Repository Usage Statistics - UK
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IRUS-UK: history
 Emerged as an outcome of PIRUS2
 Publisher and Institution Repository Usage Statistics project
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http://www.cranfieldlibrary.cranfield.ac.uk/pirus2/
 Aimed to develop a global standard to enable the recording, reporting
and consolidation of online usage statistics for individual journal
articles hosted by Institutional Repositories, Publishers and others
 Proved it was technically feasible, but thwarted by organisational and
political issues
 However, crisis/opportunity… we now knew it was possible to…
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IRUS-UK: aim
 Enable UK IRs to share/expose usage statistics based on a global
standard – COUNTER
 Produced on the same basis as publishers
 Filtered to remove robots and double clicks
 Comparable
 Reliable
 Trustworthy
 Authoritative
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IRUS-UK: objectives
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Collect raw usage data from UK IRs for all item types within repositories
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Downloads not record views
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Process those raw data into COUNTER-compliant statistics
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Return those statistics back to the originating repositories for their own use
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Give Jisc (and others) a nation-wide picture of the overall use of UK repositories
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demonstrate their value and place in the dissemination of scholarly outputs
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Offer opportunities for benchmarking
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Act as an intermediary between UK repositories and other agencies
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e.g. global central clearinghouse, national shared services, Research Councils, SCONUL,
OpenAIRE
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IRUS-UK: how do we gather data?
 We considered 2 ways of gathering download data from IRs:
 Push
 Whenever a download occurs the repository ‘pings’ the IRUS-UK server with
details about the download
 We call it the ‘Tracker’
 Pull
 When a download occurs the details of the event are stored on the local
repository server
 IRUS-UK periodically harvests the download data using the OAI-PMH
protocol
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We opted to employ the Tracker
 It’s just easier!
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IRUS-UK: Tracker OpenURL strings
 The OpenURL key/value pairs
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url_ver=Z39.88-2004
url_tim=2012-07-05T22%3A59%3A59Z
req_id=urn%3Aip%3A86.15.47.114
req_dat=Mozilla%2F5.0+(iPhone%3B+U%3B+CPU+iPhone+O
S+5_1_1+like+Mac+OS+X%3B+enus)+AppleWebKit%2F534.46.0+(KHTML%2C+like+Gecko)+Cri
OS%2F19.0.1084.60+Mobile%2F9B208+Safari%2F7534.48.3
 rft.artnum=oai%3Aeprints.hud.ac.uk%3A8795
 svc_format=application%2Fpdf
 rfr_id=eprints.hud.ac.uk
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IRUS-UK: deploying tracker code
 There are quite a few software platforms offering Institutional
Repository functionality, these include:
 DSpace, Eprints, Fedora, intraLibrary (Intrallect), Digital Commons
(Bepress), PURE Portal … and the list goes on
 Each of these platforms works differently under the hood meaning
a single solution for deploying the tracker is not possible
 So, we’ve focused, initially, on DSpace and Eprints, which account
for about two-thirds of UK repositories
 Patches available for DSpace (1.8.x and 3.x)
 Plugins available for Eprints (3.3.x)
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IRUS-UK: processing data
 Data gets stored in daily log files
 We usually process each log the following day
 We actually have a three step ingest process
 I won’t go into intricate detail, but we
 Only process entries from recognised IRs
 Sort and filter the data following COUNTER rules to remove robot
entries and double-clicks
 Use some additional IRUS-UK filters to exclude unusual usage/spikes,
etc.
 Consolidate data for each item into daily statistics
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IRUS-UK: ingest into the database
 Then we
 put those statistics into a ‘Daily Statistics’ table in our database
 grab a bunch of metadata – title, author(s), item type, etc. – from the
source IRs and put that in the database
 Map repository item types to a smaller IRUS-UK item type list
 We only have to do all this once
 Once a month, consolidate the Daily Statistics into a Monthly Statistics
table
 The ‘traditional’ COUNTER granularity
 So, as a service, we can easily work with statistics at either granularity
 Once the stats in the database we can ‘slice and dice’ the data and
expose it in many different ways (which I’ll show you in a while)
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IRUS-UK: community engagement
 Growing number of repositories sending data to IRUS-UK
 Currently 18 participants:
 Bournemouth, City, UEA. Greenwich, Huddersfield, Kent, LSE,
Middlesex, NERC, Northumbria, Open, Reading, Salford, Sussex,
Warwick (Eprints)
 Aberystwyth, Cranfield, RGU (DSpace)
 Others in the pipeline
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IRUS-UK: COUNTER-compliant data
Reliable, trustworthy, consistent COUNTER compliant usage statistics:
 Cuts out robots and double clicks
 Allows analysis of trends over time
 Introduces possibility of benchmarking with other IRs – you are sure
you are all counting the same things in the same way
 Data collected daily with no effort on your part
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IRUS-UK: how it fits with other statistics
 Google Analytics – good for geographical spread, where referrals are
coming from
 IRStats (for Eprints users only) – good for local use, drilling down to
school or subject level
 IRUS-UK – consistent download figures for all participating
repositories
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IRUS-UK: OPEN data
 For benchmarking:
comparing usage with others in the same peer group,
regional group etc
“Being able to see some usage data from other institutions within
IRUS, and knowing that the same methodology has been used to
arrive at these numbers, will be really valuable to us.”
 For tracking authors or subjects in different IRs:
“The 'Search' is interesting in that shows downloads of the same
author or subjects across repositories.”
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IRUS-UK: overall use of UK IRs
 Demonstrates scale of downloads across UK IRs:
 As at 31 March 2013:
2.4 million+ items downloaded since IRUS-UK started
 Can help with more consistent answers to SCONUL return
 Provides Jisc with evidence of extent of use
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IRUS-UK: item types
 Item types used by repositories are mapped to a list of
terms used by IRUS-UK
 What is an Article?
Preprint, postprint, peer-reviewed, non-peer reviewed etc etc
See ‘Report on use of item types by UK institutional repositories’
by Anne Reed (Mimas)
Available from
http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/news/IRUS_item_type_report_Jan201
3_v2_0.pdf
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IRUS-UK: DOIs
 Item Report 1 (IR1) – number of successful item requests by
month and repository identifier
 Consolidated Article Report (CAR1) – number of successful article
requests by DOI and repository identifier
DOI summary stats show:
 Number of DOIs by item type
 Number of article DOIs by repository
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IRUS-UK: a community resource
How are usage statistics used in reports by repository managers?
 How can reports in IRUS-UK help?
 How can IRUS-UK statistics best be incorporated into IR’s own
pages?
We always welcome your ideas and feedback!
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[email protected]
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IRUS-UK: Repository Totals
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IRUS-UK: Item Types Totals
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IRUS-UK: Item Type <->IR: Item Type
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IRUS-UK: DOI Summary Stats
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IRUS-UK: Title/Author Search
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IRUS-UK: Ingest Summary Stats
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IRUS-UK: IR1 Report LSE Jan-Feb 2013
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IRUS-UK: CAR1 Report Jan-Feb 2013
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IRUS-UK: how to join
 If you are a UK repository:
 Contact us at irus.mimas.ac.uk to register your interest
 Answer a few questions on the type of repository you have and
the version you are running
 Get advice from us on what work will be involved depending on
your repository type and version
 Implement any changes advised and then see your usage data
instantly in IRUS-UK with no more work from you
“The set up was quick and painless, which is always a delight!”
“Consistent collection of statistics without me having to do it!”
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IRUS-UK: our next webinar
22 May 14.00 – aimed primarily at repository
technical managers
More details to follow
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Contacts & Information
 If you are a UK repository wishing to participate in IRUS-UK,
please contact
 [email protected]
 For general enquiries, please contact
 [email protected]
 Project web site:
 http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/
 Thank you!
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