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Embedding IRUS-UK statistics into IR web pages – the IRUS-UK widget

The IRUS team have developed a widget in response to requests from IR (institutional repository) managers who wanted to surface usage statistics more visibly in their IR and encourage open access. Using this new widget, institutions can embed IRUS-UK COUNTER-conformant statistics into their own institutional repository (IR) pages. This means it can provide them with […]

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IRUS-UK collaboration: consistent, comparable usage statistics to demonstrate the growth of OA

This is a guest post by Pete Dalton, Evidence Base, Birmingham City University, on behalf of the IRUS-UK team. IRUS–UK is a standards-based statistics aggregation service, enabling UK universities to share and compare information about usage of items in their institutional repositories. Conforming to the COUNTER standard, statistics are consistent and comparable to enable benchmarking […]

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Measuring the impact of OA week: IRUS-UK’s new daily usage stats

A new development for IRUS-UK users and Open Access (OA) Week and beyond IRUS-UK continues to respond to users’ needs with a new development released in time for OA week. For example, the service has recently been asked by one of our institutions, Apollo – University of Cambridge Repository, to measure the impact of OA […]

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IRUS-UK and ORCIDs

Introduction In a changing research environment, we are seeing increased importance placed on Open Access materials available via institutional repositories. Providing open access to research outputs, via institutional repositories, offers institutions an opportunity to gain a clearer understanding of their organisational research profile. This includes understanding what is being accessed and the extent to which […]

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IRUS-UK Case Studies and Improving Open Access Support

Understanding usage of Institutional Repository content is important Being able to track how many people are accessing repository content and to be able to identify the usage of particular items offers many benefits and provides valuable evidence of the potential impact that a repository is having. In addition, being able to compare repository usage between […]