IRUS-UK is a national aggregation service that collects usage statistics from UK institutional repositories. It processes raw download data into COUNTER-compliant statistics. A small piece of code is added to repository software to gather basic data for each download and send it to the IRUS-UK server. This data is then displayed through a web interface, SUSHI service, and API. Future priorities for IRUS-UK include increasing participating repositories, implementing the tracker for more software, expanding reports, leveraging additional metadata, and international collaboration.

1. IRUS-UK: latest developments
Jo Alcock
@joeyanne
Repository Fringe 2015

2. Focus of today's presentation
• What is IRUS-UK?
• IRUS-UK reports - screenshots
• How IRUS-UK is being used
• Future priorities
http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk
@IRUSNEWS

3. What is IRUS-UK?
A national aggregation service for UK Institutional Repository Usage Statistics:
- Collects raw download data from UK IRs for *all item types* within
repositories
- Processes raw data into COUNTER-compliant statistics

4. Who is responsible for IRUS-UK?
• Funded by Jisc
• Team Members:
– Jisc– Project & Service Management & Host
– Cranfield University - Development
– Evidence Base, Birmingham City University – User Engagement & Evaluation
Bringing together key
repository services to
deliver a connected
national infrastructure to
support OA

5. The IRUS Tracker and Data
• Small piece of code added to repository software, which employs
the ‘Tracker Protocol’
– Patches for DSpace (1.8.x, 3.x, 4.x) and Plug-ins for Eprints
(3.2-3.3.x)
– Implementation guidelines for Fedora
• Gathers basic data for each download and sends to IRUS-UK server
• Adheres to the processing rules specified in:
– Release 4 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for e-Resources
– Release 1 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Articles
• Data displayed via:
– Web user interface (IRUS-UK portal)
– SUSHI service
– SUSHI Lite API (under development by NISO SUSHI Lite
Technical Report Working Group)

6. IRUS-UK: Home

7. IRUS-UK: Repository Report 1

8. IRUS-UK: Item Report 1

9. IRUS-UK: Item Statistics

10. IRUS-UK: Item Statistics

11. IRUS-UK: Journal Report 1

12. IRUS-UK: Article Report 4

13. How is IRUS-UK used?
Use cases:
• Providing standards-based, reliable
repository statistics
• Reporting to Institutional Managers
• Reporting to Researchers
• Benchmarking
• Supporting Advocacy
http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/help/support/

14. What are the future priorities for IRUS?
• Increase number of participating repositories
in IRUS-UK
• Implement IRUS tracker for other repository
and CRIS software
• Expand views of data & reports in response to
user requirements
• Leverage supplementary sources of metadata
to enhance data in IRUS
• Incorporate more altmetrics
• International collaboration

15. Contacts & Information
Project web site:
– http://irus.mimas.ac.uk/
Contact IRUS-UK:
– irus@jisc.ac.uk
– @IRUSNEWS