Welcome to IRUS-UK
IRUS-UK (Institutional Repository Usage Statistics UK) is a national aggregation service, which provides COUNTER-conformant usage statistics for all content downloaded from participating UK institutional repositories (IRs).
Access reports via the IRUS-UK Portal
Participant quote
I do really look forward to using the download figures from your portal. They are reliable and very useful.
Benefits
The service consolidates COUNTER-conformant statistics providing opportunities to demonstrate the value and impact of IRs:
- facilitates comparable, standards-based measurements
- provides an evidence base for repositories to develop policies and initiatives to help support their objectives
- provides consistent and comprehensive statistics, presenting opportunities for benchmarking at a national level
- developing a user community that will ensure that the service is responsive to user requirements
IRUS-UK growth over time
If you are a UK repository wishing to participate in IRUS-UK, please contact help@jisc.ac.uk
