{"id":152,"date":"2015-06-17T14:20:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T14:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/researcharchiving\/?p=152"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:18:20","slug":"examining-readership-of-our-institutional-repository","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/researcharchiving\/2015\/06\/17\/examining-readership-of-our-institutional-repository\/","title":{"rendered":"Examining readership of our institutional repository"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longer term I feel one of the most important things I do is increase <strong>research impact<\/strong>. I also want to <strong>celebrate<\/strong> our successes and build <strong>goodwill<\/strong>, <strong>support<\/strong> and <strong>demand for our services<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the simpler things I can measure is <strong>access and readership<\/strong> of our institutional repository <a href=\"http:\/\/lra.le.ac.uk\/\">Leicester Research Archive (LRA)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dspace.org\/\">DSpace<\/a>\u00a0for our repository which runs on a standard <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LAMP_(software_bundle)\">LAMP<\/a> stack.<\/p>\n<p>We work with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irus.mimas.ac.uk\/\">IRUS-UK<\/a> to compile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectcounter.org\/\">COUNTER <\/a>compliant download statistics which we can compare to other repositories and find things like our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/researcharchiving\/2014\/03\/20\/top-ten-book-chapters-in-lra\/\">Top ten book chapters in LRA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So we have IRUS-UK stats and we could also look at <a href=\"http:\/\/httpd.apache.org\/\">Apache webserver<\/a> logs, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/analytics\/\">Google analytics<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.duraspace.org\/display\/DSDOC4x\/DSpace+Statistics\">DSpace also collects download stats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just scratching the surface working out both <em>what I could ask<\/em>\u00a0given the raw data and <em>what I&#8217;d like to know\u00a0<\/em>which might need other data too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I know so far<\/strong>: People come to us mainly from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/\">Google<\/a>\u00a0with about 10% from <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.co.uk\/\">Google Scholar<\/a>. Our downloads overall and every month follow a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Power_law\">power law<\/a>\u00a0with the top 10 downloads accounting for most of our readership, then the next 100 most popular items each the next <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Order_of_magnitude\">order of magnitude<\/a> down in number of downloads compared to the top ten, then the next 1000 with an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Order_of_magnitude\">order of magnitude<\/a>\u00a0lower downloads, then a tail of order 10000 items with few downloads each. Other repositories show the same pattern. Our readership is going up rapidly I&#8217;m pleased to see. Some months we see a spike in readership without a corresponding pattern in overall website traffic. Our readership goes up some months compared to others in a year and other repositories mainly have similar patterns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I&#8217;d like to know:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>How do we compare<\/strong> to comparable institutions normalised by research output? <strong>Why<\/strong> do our patterns look as they do? How do we <strong>increase discoverability and reading<\/strong> of our research? What do we want readers to do next and how do we communicate those<strong>\u00a0calls to action<\/strong>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longer term I feel one of the most important things I do is increase research impact. I also want to celebrate our successes and build goodwill, support and demand for our services. 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