Reporting the Repository

Chris Biggs

Metadata and Repository Specialist

ORO is 11

Why change?

What did we collect?

1 Total number of items EPrints Admin

2 Items added in last week EPrints Admin

3 Number of full text attachments EPrints Admin

4 % full text EPrints Admin

5 Items in review EPrints Admin

6 Weekly site visits GA

7 Total site visits GA

8 Repository ranking – by number of items ROAR

9 Repository ranking – by sustained deposit ROAR

10 Top 15 downloads – monthly GA

What do we collect?

1 Total number of items IR Stats2

2 % full text IR Stats2

3 % OA attachments IR Stats2

4 Monthly site visits GA

5 Total site visits GA

6 Repository ranking – by number of items OpenDOAR

7 Repository ranking – by collection level downloads IRUS

8 Repository ranking – RWOR ranking RWOR UK ranking

9 Top 15 downloads – monthly IRUS

How did we report the data

Weekly emails

Pos. OU Author(s) Unit Item Type Item details Down-loads

(month)

Down-

loads (year to

date)

1 Martin Woodhead FELS

Other /

Research Report

Woodhead, Martin (1999). Is there a place for work in child development? Implications of child development theory and research for interpretation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,

with particular reference to Article 32, on children, work and exploitation. Rädda Barnen. 19 70

2 Marian Petre MCT Conference Item

Petre, Marian (2013). UML in practice. In: 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013), 18-26 May 2013, San Francisco, CA, USA 16 27

3 Keith Bailey Arts Thesis Bailey, Keith Alan (1995). The metamorphosis of Battersea, 1800-1914 : a building history. PhD thesis The Open University 15 56

4

Fiona Ellis-

Chadwick FBL

Journal

article

Doherty, Neil F. and Ellis-Chadwick, Fiona (2010). Internet retailing: the past, the present and the future. International Journal of Retail &

Distribution Management, 38(11/12), pp. 943–965. 14 94

4 Robert Spicer Science Journal article

Teodorides, Vasilis; Mazouch, Petr; Spicer, Robert A. and Uhl, Dieter (2011). Refining CLAMP - investigations towards improving the

Climate Leaf Analysis Multivariate Program. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 299(1-2) pp. 39–48. 14 43

4

Shailey Minocha / Marian Petre MCT Other

Minocha, Shailey and Petre, Marian (2012). Handbook of Social Media for Researchers and Supervisors. The Open University. 14 55

7 Doug Clow IET

Conference

Item

Clow, Doug (2013). MOOCs and the funnel of participation. In: Third Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK 2013), 8-12

April 2013, Leuven, Belgium. 12 56

8 Anne Adams IET Book Chapter

Adams, Anne and Cox, Anna L. (2008). Questionnaires, in-depth

interviews and focus groups. In: Cairns, Paul and Cox, Anna L. eds. Research Methods for Human Computer Interaction. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 17–34. 11 86

8 Meg Barker Social Sciences Book chapter

Barker, Meg; Iantaffi, Alessandra and Gupta, Camel (2007). Kinky clients, kinky counselling? The challenges and potentials of BDSM.

In: Moon, Lindsey ed. Feeling Queer or Queer Feelings: Radical Approaches to Counselling Sex, Sexualities and Genders. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 106–124. 11 57

Monthly lists Dear all

Here are the statistics for the processing of ORO records, visits to the website and ROAR rankings for last week.

Regards

Gordana ORO Statistics week beginning 24 June 2013

ITEMS Previous total New items added

this week Current

total

No of items 24,579 33 24,612

No of PDFs 10,783 15 10,798

% with PDFs 43.9% 43.9%

Buffer items to be verified 66 29

VISITS Weekly visits 9,507 8,894

Total visits 2,736,043 2,744,937

Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) rankings based on:

1 Number of items in the repository

1 UCL Discovery

2 Cambridge Dspace

3 University of Manchester

4 Oxford University

5 University of Southampton e-Prints

6 Glasgow ePrints Service

7 University of Warwick

8 Cardiff University (ORCA)

9 STFC ePublication Archive

10 Cambridge University Engineering Dep.

11 e-Prints Lancaster

12 LSE Research Online

13 University of East Anglia

14 University of Strathclyde

How can we report? Visual updates

But there’s more…

Library KPIs

• % full text articles in ORO

(including embargoed items)

• Increase in number of unique

visitors to ORO website,

compared to same quarter

previous year

University Dashboard

• Quarterly deposits per FTE

academic staff.

…and potentially more

Estimated cost per download Estimated cost per deposit

…and more!

Round in circles?

http://vector.me/browse/391481/roadsign_roundabout

So what am I trying to say?

• ORO is well used by the depositor

• ORO is well used by the downloader

• ORO provides VFM

• ORO performs well compared to its peers

• …in a consolidated, accurate and visual way

Library Services

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