By providing access to statistics through an open service, the IRUS service supports a range of activities and use cases.
Repository managers and library staff can:
- Show the benefits of depositing and promote use with individual item stats and highlighting high-use items
- Show the value and impact of the repository to the institution with overall usage figures in regular reports and dashboards
- Evaluate the impact of events or activities, such as OA week, by viewing trends in usage
- Compare usage of your institution's repository with peer institutions to understand usage in the broader context
- Surface usage statistics in local systems using the IRUS widget
- Improve metadata quality for DOIs and item types in your institutional repository using IRUS Manage reports
Help colleagues across your institution to:
- See the overall reach and visibility of researchers' work with country-level breakdowns of where people are accessing repository content
- Understand how repository content is being used by item type, providing evidence to support institutional planning and policy
Help authors to:
- Investigate the impact of research outputs and dissemination activities
- Show the impact of research outputs in reports to funders
- See the global reach of research outputs and show that this research is deposited and accessible
- Track the usage of individual research outputs within and across institutions with participating repositories
IRUS statistics also feed into other analytics services and projects:
- OAPEN online usage dashboard
- OpenAIRE Usage Counts Service
- Book Analytics Dashboards project
See our case studies for more in-depth examples of how some members are using the IRUS service.