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IRUS-UK: enabling institutions to quantify usage of open access research

IRUS-UK: enabling institutions to quantify usage of open access research. Jo Alcock Northumbria Conference 2015. Focus of today's presentation. What is IRUS-UK? Why? Who? What? How? IRUS-UK reports - screenshots How IRUS-UK is being used User feedback Lessons learned and future priorities.

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IRUS-UK: enabling institutions to quantify usage of open access research

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  1. IRUS-UK: enabling institutions to quantify usage of open access research • Jo Alcock • Northumbria Conference 2015

  2. Focus of today's presentation • What is IRUS-UK? • Why? Who? What? How? • IRUS-UK reports - screenshots • How IRUS-UK is being used • User feedback • Lessons learned and future priorities • http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk

  3. What is IRUS-UK? • A national aggregation service for UK Institutional Repository Usage Statistics: • Collects raw download data from UK IRs for *all item types* within repositories • Processes raw data into COUNTER-compliant statistics

  4. Who is responsible for IRUS-UK? • Funded by Jisc • Team Members: • Jisc– Project & Service Management & Host • Cranfield University - Development • Evidence Base, Birmingham City University – User Engagement & Evaluation • Bringing together key repository services to deliver a connected national infrastructure to support OA

  5. The IRUS Tracker • Small piece of code added to repository software, which employs the ‘Tracker Protocol’ • Patches for DSpace (1.8.x, 3.x, 4.x) and Plug-ins for Eprints (3.2-3.3.x) • Implementation guidelines for Fedora • Gathers basic data for each download and sends to IRUS-UK server • Adheres to the processing rules specified in: • Release 4 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for e-Resources • Release 1 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Articles

  6. Viewing IRUS data • Web User Interface - The IRUS-UK Portal • Access currently behind Shibboleth authentication/authorisation • Wide range of views, slicing and dicing stats from the IRUS-UK database • Reports available for download as CSV/Excel spreadsheet files • SUSHI service • SUSHI Lite API • Under development by the NISO SUSHI Lite Technical Report Working Group (http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi/sushi_lite/) • Allows retrieval of stats snippets to be embedded into Repository (and other) web pages

  7. The development approach for IRUS • Delivering a service for the community • Responding to evolving user requirements • Iterative and pragmatic approach to development

  8. IRUS-UK: Home

  9. IRUS-UK: Repository Statistics

  10. IRUS-UK: Item Type Statistics

  11. IRUS-UK: Repository Report 1

  12. IRUS-UK: Item Report 1

  13. IRUS-UK: Journal Report 1

  14. IRUS-UK: Article Report 4

  15. IRUS-UK: Duplicate DOI Report

  16. IRUS-UK: Search

  17. IRUS-UK: Item Statistics

  18. How is IRUS-UK used? Use cases: • Providing standards-based, reliable repository statistics • Reporting to Institutional Managers • Reporting to Researchers • Benchmarking • Supporting Advocacy http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/help/support/

  19. User feedback on IRUS-UK • Best thing about IRUS-UK: • Reliable, authoritative statistics • Ability to benchmark against others • Easy to use • Improved statistical reporting for 92% • Saved time collecting statistics for 63% • Enabled reporting previously unable to do for 83% • 84% currently (or plan to) use IRUS-UK for benchmarking Data from 2015 IRUS-UK User Survey

  20. What do users say about IRUS-UK? “The set up was quick and painless” “High quality download stats that conform to a standard, that we can compare to other universities for benchmarking.” “Provides useful usage stats for librarians.”

  21. What lessons have we learned? Engagement • Aim to minimise any extra work required of the IR managers – keep barriers for participation low • Consider all suggestions for improvements and regularly revisit and reprioritise based on user feedback and other opportunities • Relate functionality to the relief of pain for users Standards • Base developments on appropriate standards and give something back to the standards bodies Iterative development • Don’t wait until you have a full solution – start with what is there

  22. What are the future priorities for IRUS? • Increase number of participating repositories in IRUS-UK • Implement IRUS tracker for other repository and CRIS software • Expand views of data & reports in response to user requirements • Leverage supplementary sources of metadata to enhance data in IRUS • Incorporate more altmetrics • International collaboration

  23. Contacts & Information Project web site: • http://irus.mimas.ac.uk/ Contact IRUS-UK: • irus@mimas.ac.uk • @IRUSNEWS

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