COAR Interest Group Usage Data and Beyond Webcast 19 March 2013 Daniel Beucke | [email protected] Paul Needham | [email protected]

Agenda

 Short Introduction to the group (purpose and objectives)  Update on IRUS-UK  Next steps and preparation of work plan

 Discussion

COAR Interest Group "Usage Data and Beyond“

Organization

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Sub group of Working Group 2 „Repository Interoperability“ (Chair: Eloy Rodrigues)

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Interest Group Leader: Daniel Beucke and Paul Needham

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A COAR membership is preferable but not a must have (right at the start)

COAR Interest Group "Usage Data and Beyond“

Objectives

The group deals with interoperable usage statistics e.g. combining usage data from multiple sources. There are various initial projects at national and international level for gathering and aggregating usage data from repositories. This group aims at collecting these (technical and organizational level) experiences in order to standardize the transfer protocol and data format. In addition, the group will keep in view the developments in alternative impact measurement.

COAR Interest Group "Usage Data and Beyond“

Institutional Repository Usage Statistics UK Following on from the successful PIRUS2 project, which demonstrated how COUNTER-compliant article-level usage statistics could be collected and consolidated from Publishers and Institutional Repositories (IRs), Jisc have provided funding to establish 'IRUS-UK', a national aggregation service, containing details of all content downloaded from UK participating IRs.  In November 2013 the 50th UK Institutional Repository (IR) saw its usage data starting to appear in IRUS-UK. More than 8 million downloads of over 160,000 items from participating repositories.  Currently, there are 53 DSpace and Eprints repositories ... And more joining, shortly.

COAR Interest Group "Usage Data and Beyond“

Institutional Repository Usage Statistics UK IRUS-UK collects raw download data using a Tracker protocol  Data is pushed from IRs as OpenURL strings, at the point when a download occurs  We did consider pulling using an OAI-PMH interface but rejected it as problematic and unwieldy – For IRs: they would have to take responsibility for storing events locally, ensuring integrity and availability of the data, maintaining OAI crosswalks, incur annual audit charges as part of COUNTER-compliance – For IRUS-UK: it becomes difficult to manage the harvesting processes as the number of participating IRs grows

Once we have the data, we process according to COUNTER rules, removing robots and double clicks  BUT the current COUNTER rules don’t eliminate all robots/bad usage: that is our next challenge!

COAR Interest Group "Usage Data and Beyond“

Institutional Repository Usage Statistics UK To eliminate ALL robot and non-human accesses is impossible  The problem is too big for IRUS-UK to deal with, alone  However, we have done enough work to know it should be possible to define a common set of rules to deal with the problem better  and to come up with an agreed global standard that we can all use COUNTER is forming a Robots Working Group     

Publishers Repository representatives COUNTER auditors Other interested parties This COAR-IG!

COAR Interest Group "Usage Data and Beyond“

Next steps and Preparation of Work Plan Robot and other Unusual Usage – A common used robot list to provide a global blacklist to exclude non human clicks from usage statistics – Common processing rules

List of Initiatives and Projects – First steps on our IG Website

Webinars – “Usage Data for Repositories” – “Altmetrics for Repositories”

Usage Statistics Guideline – KE, OA-Statistics, …

Contribution to COAR Interoperability Roadmap – A detailed overview of initiatives and projects which deal with usage data – The deliverable includes an outlook to the alternative impact measurements initiatives

COAR Interest Group "Usage Data and Beyond“

Preparation of Work Plan

Until May – Annual Meeting  To elaborate the list of initiatives and projects  First results (report?) for ‘Robot and other Unusual Usage’ filtering  To offer a robot list  Date for first webinar “Usage Data for Repositories” Who will work in which topic?  Robot and other Unusual Usage  List of Initiatives and Projects  Webinars  Usage Statistics Guideline Next call in May to prepare the meeting in Athens

COAR Interest Group "Usage Data and Beyond“

See each other in Athens: OpenAIRE/COAR Conference On May 21, 2014 from 9:00 – 10:30 a Breakfast Club Meeting will be held, in which COAR Working and Interest Groups will introduce and discuss their work.

On May 22, 2014 from 14:00 – 15:30 the Session 4: The impact of openness and how to evaluate research will be held. Perspectives on the impact of Open Access and Open Science; who it affects, how to increase and how to evaluate and measure research impact. Chair: Natalia Manola – University of Athens, OpenAIRE    

Impact on developing countries: Leslie Chan – Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough Impact through social networks: Erika Widegen - Executive Director of Atomium Culture Next generation metrics of scholarly performance (tba) Q&A

https://www.coar-repositories.org/community/events/annual-meeting-2014/ COAR Interest Group "Usage Data and Beyond“

Discussion

COAR Interest Group "Usage Data and Beyond“

Thank you for your attention. Questions? http://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/repository-interoperability/usage-data-and-beyond/

COAR Interest Group "Usage Data and Beyond“