The document provides an overview of the IRUS usage reports and how to access and use them. It discusses the main reports including the Custom Platform Report, Custom Item Master Report, and Individual Item Report. It also covers the metrics counted in the reports including Total_Item_Requests, Unique_Item_Requests, Total_Item_Investigations, and Unique_Item_Investigations. Support materials like guides, FAQs, and a glossary are available to help users understand how to interpret the reports and answer specific questions.

1. IRUS: how do I?
06 December 2022

2. What we will cover
•Overview
•How do I? demo
•Main reports
•‘Manage’ admin reports
•Support materials
•Guides
•FAQs
•Glossary
•Policies

3. Overview

4. Overview – the reports and what you can do with them
• 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

5. Overview - accessing and viewing usage statistics
• Custom Platform Report, Custom Item Master Report, and
Individual Item Report are very flexible reporting tools
• Combined R4/R5 Platform Report
• Item statistics by ORCID
• Create reports tailored to your reporting requirements
• Cover wide range of use cases
• API
Detailed and tailored
• Support most common tasks and use cases
• Visualisations (top titles)
• Widget
Quick and simple

6. Overview – what are being counted?
•counts number of requests for the full content item (after
COUNTER processing i.e., double-clicks and robot exclusions)
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 context (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 for COUNTER Release 5
Note that investigations are only available from when repositories implemented the R5 tracker.
This metric is the closest to
the R4 “download” counts

7. How do I? demo

8. Questions

9. Contact us
Email help@jisc.ac.uk
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