Technical overview and related use cases: irus-uk

IRUS-UK

admin — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:45:55 +0000

Institutional Repository Usage Statistics (IRUS-UK) is a JISC-funded usage-reporting service (managed by Mimas) designed to enable UK institutional repositories to share and expose statistics based on the COUNTER standard. IRUS-UK aims to provide a nation-wide view of UK repository usage by providing comparable, authoritative, standards-base data.

Note: IRUS-UK is one of the repository infrastructure components supported in 'Wave 1' of RepositoryNet+.

Proposal for publisher engagement with IRUS-UK

admin — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:04:52 +0000

This use case outlines potential user requirements and technical development considerations for publisher engagement with the monitoring of usage statistics for Open Access (OA) resources. Building on the RepNet Wave 1 development of Institutional Repository Usage Statistics (IRUS-UK), this use case focuses on increasing engagement of publishers with testing and reviewing of aggregated usage statistics for resources made available both via publisher networks and in institutional repositories.

Proposed dashboard for tracking OA mandate compliance

admin — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:32:21 +0000

This use case outlines potential user requirements and technical development considerations for a proposed dashboard tool monitoring compliance rates with regard to funder policies on Open Access (OA). This proposed dashboard, as part of its wider remit, would also help track various outputs and payments as funded research progresses through stages towards OA publication.