Open Metrics for Open Repositories at OR2012

Open Metrics for Open Repositories 20x20 Pecha Kucha delivered at OR2012 on Tuesday 10th July based on the unpublish...

OA still in its infancy? • Need for metrics • Understand how IRs are being used • Policy decisions • Technical infrastru...

• New, alternative metrics • Use in evaluation and assessment • Exploit opportunities • Usage / bibliographic data...

The Finch report • Executive Summary • Gold vs Green • Estimated additional 50ドル-60M • Green has failed! • What d...

Practice what you preach • Open it up • Article level (ideal) • Software / fragmentation • Wrangle your software • Need fo...

The Institutional Picture • Total number of records • Full-text / metadata only • Raw figure / Proportion of total • Met...

EPrints

• Article level metrics • Open interface • www.eprints.ac.uk/cgi/irstats.cgi • Use as advocacy tool

Dspace (GA plug-in) ...

The Big Picture • OPuS - Bath (EPrints) • Leeds Metropolitan • Proportion as measure? • RepUK / aggregations • S...

Number of Full Text • Few IRs can easily provide data • RepUK (national aggregation service) • CORE • Discrepancies • Prop...

RepUK

Deposits Oai_dc node occurences • Technical challenges Oai_dc node occur...

(Edinburgh Research Archive) 154 IRs aggregated (28/06/12) • 397790 PDF • 20578 MS Word • 44018 jpeg • 122764 ht...

The Researchers’ Requirements • May have effect on deposit choice • PLoS/Arxiv display article-level metrics • Numbe...

Third Party Services • Mechanisms to harvest metadata/full-text • OAI-PMH • The search party didn’t turn up? • Sl...

COnnecting REpositories (CORE) • Repository Analytics • Increase the visibility of content • Provide applications to aid ...

Conclusions • Yes it’s complicated! • Stats don’t tell the whole picture • Greatest value for oper...