IRUS-UK

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).

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

We've put together a table showing the usage of coronavirus related content in IRUS, featuring items in IRUS-UK, CORE, IRUS-ANZ and IRUS-US, which can be viewed at https://irus.jisc.ac.uk/coronavirus.

Access reports via the IRUS-UK Portal

Participant quote

[Potential benefits include] management reporting, benchmarking, help to show impact, identify research areas that have wider interest

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