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In addition to usage statistics, citations and events related to the digital items and collections are tracked when the data
is available.
In the very near future, our faculty profile system will be integrated with our digital repository, but as we are just rolling
it out we have not integrated it yet. In addition, we currently only have the native DSpace statistics reports that users
can see for their items in the collection. It’s not an integrated 3rd party software, but it is a statistical report.
Library administrators are currently participating in a university-wide group considering performance metric tools
for purchase.
The Health Sciences library on our campus is currently working with ORCID on author disambiguation.
The IR logs activity such as browsing items and downloading files. Once scholarly content grows, it will be possible to
generate usage statistics and reports as input for assessment.
The next iteration of our institutional repository will include integrated scholarly output assessment software.
The university’s central IT pays for the campus subscription to SciVal and the Program for Institutional Research &
Assessment pays for the campus license to Academic Analytics.
There isn’t any cost sharing, per se, but other units (i.e., RENCI, Renaissance Computing Institute, renci.org) pay for
some software/resources and make them available to the institution.
Users can generate reports but the library does not provide reports as a service.
We are currently overhauling our IR software. It’s too early to tell what functionality will be included in the
new software.
We are just now getting the altmetrics donut into our press website as well as the IR.
We built our own usage statistics service that draws upon repository usage (article download) data. We have been
looking at opportunities for integrating vended software/tools such as incorporating altmetric data into our repository.
We currently integrate only Google Analytics into our repository and provide dynamic reports at the article and
collection level.
We don’t provide any usage reports, but usage data is available to all users of the IR.
We or IR provide reports to departments, individuals, and/or some library staff on campus based on information
provided by the IR vendor and/or Google Analytics. This can include download counts at the item level.
We plan to integrate scholarly assessment resources into our digital repository in the current calendar year including
usage reports related to repository items and/or faculty, students, and staff represented. In consultation with campus
partners, we will be evaluating many of the services listed in the survey to determine which service(s) might best provide
assessment data useful to aggregate within our digital repository.
We’re still developing a more dynamic method of providing scholarly output assessment for the institutional repository.
While our IR does not incorporate the software or resources described in your question, it does provide download
counts for all objects. In addition, our IR creates DOIs for each record, providing a basis for interoperability.