The document discusses OpenAIRE's Usage Counts service, which tracks usage and collects COUNTER reports to provide analytics on the usage of research outputs. It introduces the new architecture and workflows that power the service, and shows examples of usage counts data in action for content providers and individual research items. Finally, it outlines the future plans for the service, including counting more research products, moving to the latest COUNTER standards, offering additional analytics, and building a Usage Counts Hub.
2. 1) OpenAIRE Provide updates
2) Main topic for discussion
Usage Counts service:
The analytics service of OpenAIRE Research Graph
3) Questions & comments
(please share your use cases, issues)
AGENDA:
Notes & Agenda ⇨ https://bit.ly/2rTgJwy
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OpenAIRE 10th Community Call
Usage Counts Service
The analytics service of OpenAIRE Research Graph
2nd December 2020
Dimitris Pierrakos
Athena Research Center
Andreas Czerniak
University of Bielefeld
Jochen Schirrwagen
University of Bielefeld
7.
8. • Introduction to the service
• Usage Counts Analytics and how can
you get them
• How can you join
Overview
12. Usage Counts Service Features
Tracking of usage
(PUSH)/ collecting
COUNTER reports (Pull)
Anonymisation of IP-
addresses.
Metadata de-
duplication enables
accumulation of usage
for same research
outputs
COUNTER Code of
Practice compatibility.
standards based usage
statistics.
enables comparability with
statistics from other data
sources.
Thisiswhereyoutypeintheevent
13. ● Usage Counts: A measure of scholar impact.
● Indicators that complements other (traditional and alternative)
bibliometric indicators to provide a comprehensive and recent
view of the impact of academic resources.
● Stakeholders: Authors, Institutions, OS platforms, Funders, etc.
● “Which funder has the biggest engagement in Europe?”
● “Provide me the evolution of the popularity of the
publications/data of a project within the last 5 years.”
● Build inference/prediction models for topics, based on usage
activity.
● Create user communities and make recommendations.
● Standardization needed.
Usage Counts: Everything counts in large amounts
33. 1) OpenAIRE Provide updates
2) Main topic for discussion
Usage Counts service:
The analytics service of OpenAIRE Research Graph
3) Questions & comments
(please share your use cases, issues)
AGENDA:
Notes & Agenda ⇨ https://bit.ly/2rTgJwy
www.openaire.eu/provide-community-calls