SPEC Kit 346: Scholarly Output Assessment Activities  · 31
Additional Comment N=1
We do get distribute usage/download reports from the IR, but I don’t think that’s what you mean.
9. If scholarly output assessment software/resources are integrated in your institutional repository,
do you provide repository usage reports? N=39
Yes 34 87%
No 5 13%
If yes, please briefly describe the type of usage report. N=31
Administrators of collections are emailed brief reports with page hits and file downloads. They can also view information
like metadata views and locations that engaged with the material online.
At this point, reports are limited to download counts by item.
Authors and series administrators are provided use data on a monthly basis.
Authors can request regular notification of downloads.
Authors receive an email report on the number of times each work has been downloaded.
Automated usage stats
Basic downloads and hits
Bepress provides automatic usage reports directly to authors. The Repository Coordinator also uploads Google Analytics
and makes them freely available along with bepress comparisons with other repositories.
DSpace statistics
Each item and category in the repository has its own use report by default, and we occasionally generate aggregate
reports for individuals, units, etc.
Faculty can elect to check their “Digital Commons Dashboard” to see readership activity and/or select to get email
reports of same.
If asked, but people are encouraged to access on their own.
In addition to monthly download report emails to authors, additional reports are being set up for department chairs and
college deans.
In addition to statistics noted above (the number of page views and downloads for deposited files—both for individual
files that one has deposited and for the total of files one has deposited), our IR can capture other statistics that might be
considered a usage report. They include the following: total number of files in IR, totals by visibility, the top file formats,
and total IR users.
Individual content submitters can elect to receive usage statistics of their submissions, which provide download counts
of individual records. Administrators of communities within the IR have access to download usage reports.
It goes to each author who has deposited into the IR, and it reports the number of downloads for the most recent
month, and also a total downloads number.
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