Information on the frequency and patterns of document usage on open access repositories may give feedback about a) the value of a document for users b) the importance of research for the authors c) the impact of a document (that enhances citation based impact metrics) Additionally usage information gathered on the repository level may give feedback about a) how visitors are using a repository (in terms of penetration or navigation) b) how effectively a repository is connected to other retrieval systems c) how repository managers may improve their repositories This presentation discusses a) the opportunities to utilize usage information as impact scores b) the opportunities to analyze repository services by usage information c) an infrastructure to gather interoperable usage information from distributed open access repositories. This infrastructure was implemented in the project OpenAccess Statistics, http://www.dini.de/projekte/oa-statistik/english/ (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG http://www.dfg.de). Additionally the results of three surveys focussing on repository services based on ussage information are presented. Lit: Bollen, J., Van de Sompel, H., Hagberg, A., Chute, R.: A principal component analysis of 39 scientific impact measures. PLoS ONE 4 (6), art. no. e6022 Bollen, J., Van De Sompel, H., Rodriguez, M.A.: Towards usage-based impact metrics: First results from the MESUR project. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 231-240 Nicholas, D., Clark, D., Rowlands, I., Jamali, H.R.: Online use and information seeking behaviour: Institutional and subject comparisons of UK researchers. Journal of Information Science 35 (6), pp. 660-676 Herb, U., Scholze, F.: Nutzungsstatistiken elektronischer Publikationen. Zeitschrift fur Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 54 (4-5), pp. 234-237