Presentation from the Jisc webinar - IRUS R5: open and flexible access to standardised repository usage data 16 November 2021

1. IRUS R5: open and flexible access to
standardised repository usage data
November 2021

2. Outline of the session
• What do we mean by IRUS R5?
• What about R4?
• R5 reports and what you can do with them
• What is being counted?
• The new look IRUS and demonstration
• What next and what we are working on
• Your input and feedback
• Questions
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3. What do we mean by IRUS R5?
An updated version of IRUS based on the latest version of COUNTER Code of
Practice Release 5 (or R5 for short)
•Major update
•New look website, reports and metrics
•Updated approaches
•Same commitment to standardised and comparable usage data
Jan 2019:
COUNTER CoP
Release 5
Late 2019: Tracker
updates
Early 2020: R5
processing
Dec 2020: Version
1 of new website
launched
2021: Testing,
enhancement, data
assurance
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4. IRUS R5: overview
1. Access to data across the IRUS family of services
2. Open access service, so no login is required
3. Conformant with R5: Investigations as well as Requests
4. Reduced number of reports with increased flexibility
5. Improvements to labelling and organisation
6. More prominent and flexible API
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IRUS
IRUS-UK
IRUS-ANZ
IRUS-US
IRUS-CORE
IRUS-OAPEN

5. What about IRUS R4?
•Currently running both services in parallel
•Plan to archive the IRUS ‘R4’ site – retain access to past data, but no further data added
•Give notice
•No further development
•Put re-directs in place
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For you to consider: what do you need to switch over?

6. IRUS R5
• We have processed the data for the R5 reports back to January 2020
• IRUS robot exclusions are now based on recorded usage across all IRUS services
• Some changes in the processing mean counts in R5 may be slightly higher or lower
than R4
•Reports
• Platform Master Report
• Item Master Report
• Individual Item Report
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7. Reports and what you can do with them
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• View total usage for a repository and/or institution
• View total usage for different item types
• Identify most used item, article, thesis etc.
• Identify country of use
• Compare total usage of selected repositories by item type
• View individual item level details
The reports enable you to:
Guides provide examples of how to use the
new reports and answer certain questions

8. Accessing and viewing usage statistics
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• Custom Platform, Item Master Reports, and Individual Item
Reports are very flexible reporting tools
• Create reports tailored to your reporting requirements
• Covers wide range of use cases
• API
Detailed and tailored
• Support most common tasks and use cases
• Visualisations (top titles)
• Widget
Quick and simple

9. What is being counted?
•counts number of requests for the full content item
Total_Item_Requests
•de-duplicates when multiple file types are downloaded from the
same item record in the same user session
Unique_Item_Requests
•counts views of records associated with an item (e.g. abstract,
metadata) as well as full content (e.g. PDF, image, etc.)
Total_Item_Investigations
•de-duplicates use for the same item in a user session
Unique_Item_Investigations
The 4 metric types in COUNTER Release 5
Note that Investigations are only available from when repositories implement the R5 tracker.
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This metric is the closest to
the R4 “download” counts

10. Demonstration of the R5 IRUS service

11. What next

12. Individual Item Report – planned features
• Link back to legacy stats in R4 for same item
• Daily counts
• CORE stats
• Altmetrics and Dimensions badges
• Something else (please add to chat)
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Poll: Which feature would you most like to see added
to the Individual Item Report? (Select one)

13. What we are currently working on
Coming soon
(pilot testing)
•Updated platform (repository) level widget
•New item level widget
In progress
•Basic title/author search functionality
•Script automation
•Metadata curation activities
•Item type mappings processes / COAR resource types
Just started
•Engagement and promotion
•Transition from R4 to R5
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14. Demo of widgets

15. Other planned work
• Enhancements to the API
• Enriching the data (e.g. ORCIDs, funder data)
• Integration of CORE statistics
• Quick select report/views to meet common use cases
• Management and admin reports (e.g. duplicate DOIs, item type mappings, ingest stats)
• Search
• Visualisations
• Research Data
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Poll: Which areas would you like us to focus on
developing? (select up to 3)

16. Your input and feedback
How to get involved
• Try out the new reports
• Get in touch if you want to embed IRUS data
• Fill out our survey
• Speak with us
• Look out for info about our new user groups in the new year
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17. Questions