Institutional Repository Usage Statistics IRUS-UK: the story so far and what’s next 17 July 2013 Balviar Notay, Jisc Ross Macintyre, Mimas Paul Needham,
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Institutional Repository Usage Statistics
IRUS-UK: the story so far and what’s next17 July 2013
Balviar Notay, JiscRoss Macintyre, Mimas
Paul Needham, Cranfield UniversityAngela Conyers, Evidence Base, BCU
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The Jisc view (1)
Jisc began work in repository usage statistics area in 2009 – with requirements gathering and feasibility testing (PIRUS)
Now we are building and in process of delivering a national shared service for usage stats.
Recognised a growing need to measure usage - as the repository infrastructure grew. (now 200 UK repositories approx)
Parallel work with OpenAIRE. Also library usage statistics– under the Jisc Activity Data programme).
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The Jisc view (2)
Usage is seen as important factor in capturing impact. Usage part of the growing metrics infrastructure - which includes citation and Altmetrics.
Usage statistics supports – management reporting and wider business intelligence gathering. National aggregation of usage statistics for allows for functions such as benchmarking
IRUS-UK gives JISC, other infrastructure providers and funders, a nation-wide picture of the overall use of UK repositories (demonstrate their value and impact).
IRUS-UK could also potentially act as an intermediary between UK repositories and other agencies. E.g. The EU funded OpenAIRE project are interested in an API to the service to monitor usage of UK FP7 funded research.
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The Jisc view (3)
Jisc is planning the sustainability of IRUS-UK in the context of a number of co-ordinated repository shared services.
–The UK RepNet initiative (scoping, co-ordinating and developing technical infrastructure) coming to an end in July 2013.
–From August 2013 (for 2 years) Jisc will be building on the work of UK RepNet to support sustainable repository shared services.
–New name and branding will be developed for infrastructure.
– Jisc coordination and management of services (transition to service)
–Developing the appropriate business models
–Build scalable infrastructure - interoperate with RIM and RDM
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Jisc programmes Academy/JISC Open Educational
Resources Programme Phase 3
Assessment & Feedback Programme
Business Intelligence
Content Programme 2011-2013
Developing Digital Literacies
Digital Infrastructure: Directions
Digital Infrastructure: Information and Library Infrastructure Programme
Digitisation and Content
Directions: Strategic Directions
e-Learning Programme
Enhancing DMPonline Projects
Greening ICT Programme
Information and Library Infrastructure: Emerging
Opportunities
Information and Library Infrastructure: Resource Discovery
Managing Research Data Programme 2011-13
Relationship Management
Research Data Management Infrastructure Projects
Research Data Management Planning Projects
Research Management: Repositories and Curation Shared Infrastructure
Strategic Content Alliance
Transformations Programme
UMF Shared Services and the Cloud Programme
World War One Commemoration
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IRUS-UK
Funded by Jisc as part of UK RepositoryNet+
Project Team Members: Mimas Cranfield University EvidenceBase, BCU
IRUS-UK: ‘Institutional Repository Usage Statistics – UK’ Enable UK IRs to share/expose usage statistics based on a
global standard – COUNTER
Emerged from work done in ‘PIRUS2’ Project Publisher and Institution Repository Usage Statistics project http://www.cranfieldlibrary.cranfield.ac.uk/pirus2/
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IRUS-UK: Current status
Production-strength service infrastructure
Tracker code: DSpace & Eprints , Functional specification for Fedora.
Collecting raw usage data from UK IRs for all item types within (33) repositories Downloads not record views
Processing those raw data into COUNTER-compliant statistics Making available to the originating repositories for their own use
Providing an aggregated picture of the use of items in UK repositories
Published ‘Item Types’ Report classifying types of items downloaded
COUNTER PIRUS Code of Practice published
Evaluation, dissemination and community engagement
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IRUS-UK: the old ingest process
The existing ingest process has been described in detail in previous webinars and presentations - http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/news/
The key point is to apply the COUNTER Code of Practice to filter out robots and double clicks
However the COUNTER Robot Exclusion list is specified only as a minimum requirement – more can be done
We’ve added additional filters to Remove more user agents Apply a simple threshold for ‘overactive’ IP addresses
Substantially better, but we’re still not satisfied - we need a more sophisticated filtering system!
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IRUS-UK: the new ingest process (1)
We commissioned Information Power to: Analyse raw data we’ve collected since July 2012 Test the feasibility of devising a set of algorithms that would
‘dynamically’ identify and filter out unusual usage/robot activity
A report on that work is available from http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/news/
Key findings from the work are Suspicious behaviour can’t necessarily be judged on the basis
of one day’s usage records or a month’s. At certain levels of activity machine/non-genuine usage is
practically indistinguishable from genuine human activity.
Going forward, we will test out and experiment with the new dynamic filtering
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IRUS-UK: the new ingest process (2)
As a service, we have to be pragmatic so we will go for a ‘best result for least effort’ approach.
In each calendar month we will process logs daily eliminate as much as we can with a quick, minimalist
approach insert statistics into a ‘Provisional Daily Stats’ table
At the end of each month we will reprocess those provisional stats Apply more comprehensive, sophisticated filtering load the restated stats into the permanent daily stats table empty the provisional table ready for the next month
We can’t ever get to perfection in open web environment but, by the time we’re done, we will be producing ‘the best wrong stats in town’
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IRUS-UK: Tracker patches and add-ons
Available for DSpace and Eprints
Eprints Add-on for 3.2.x and 3.3.x Not feasible to back port to earlier versions
DSpace Patches for 1.8.x and 3.x But there are a lot of older DSpace instances out there We’ll commission 1.6.x and 1.7.x versions
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IRUS-UK: Tracker for other IR software
We will have to look at other repository software platforms on a case by case basis
Fedora Every Fedora repository is a one-off. - but some general
guidelines are available in Appendix O in the PIRUS2 Final Report, http://www.projectcounter.org/News/Pirus2_oct2011.pdf
University of Hull
PURE Portals We’ve opened discussions with Atira and we’re hopeful that
IRUS-UK Tracker functionality will be available for PURE portals …
Other platforms We would welcome dialogue with interested vendors &
developers - Contact us!
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IRUS-UK: Exposing statistics
We will be expanding The Portal Adding new views and reports Delving deeper into individual repository statistics Improving DOI based views and reporting Incorporating more metadata – Funder and Grant number
SUSHI Server New SUSHI Service to meet COUNTER Release 4 requirements
API/Web Service Expanding and enhancing the existing version Usage statistics for incorporation into Repositories Determining further requirements
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IRUS-UK: Community engagement
Growing number of repositories sending data to IRUS-UK
Currently 33 participants: Eprints: Bath Spa, Bournemouth, City, UEA, Glasgow
School of Art, Goldsmiths. Greenwich, Huddersfield, Kent, Kingston, Lancaster, LSE, Middlesex, NERC, Northampton, Northumbria, Open, Reading, Salford, Sussex, UEL, UWE, Warwick
DSpace: Aberdeen, Abertay, Aberystwyth, Cranfield, Edinburgh, Exeter, Heriot-Watt Imperial, RGU, St Andrews
Others in the pipeline
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IRUS-UK new users’ survey
Survey sent to new users 2-3 weeks after joining – 19 replies so far
Aim to get initial impressions from users:
Best features of IRUS-UK
Benefits of using IRUS-UK
Ways in which IRUS-UK might be used
Challenges to using IRUS-UK.
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Best feature of IRUS-UK
Reliable, authoritative statistics
Ability to benchmark against others
Demonstrating value
Speed and ease of set-up
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Institutional benefits
Reliable figures to demonstrate usage and for benchmarking
Improving repository by increasing deposit and demonstrating usage to researchers
Enhancing work flow and saving time
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Improving statistical reporting
Respondents described their current methods of collecting and using repository statistics and any challenges they faced.
16 out of 19 (84%) said they expected IRUS-UK to improve their statistical reporting (3 said don’t know/too early to tell)
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Open data
During this initial period all data in IRUS-UK are open to all UK HEIs via Shibboleth/Open Access
Asked if they were happy with data being open:
16 out of 19 (84%) said yes, 3 not sure
Asked if their institution would be happy:
11 out of 19 (58%) said yes, 8 not sure
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Some views from the IRUS-UK community
I do really look forward to using the download figures from your portal. They are reliable and very useful.
It is a helpful service so far - and we are interested to follow future developments
Very useful service, would like to see further long term development.
Impressed so far, and looking forward to investigating further!
Great work and hope that other IRs join up asap!
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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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Contacts and information
If you are a UK repository wishing to participate in IRUS-UK, please contact irus@mimas.ac.uk
Project web site:http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/
Thank you!
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