2. Using IRUS-UK to check repository health
University of St Andrews

3. IRUS-UK: St Andrews case study
Repository infrastructure
IRUS-UK implementation
Our content: quality of metadata
Checking the pulse (trends, comparisons)
Promoting and validating ebook usage
Promoting and comparing article usage
Part of a healthy community
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4. IRUS-UK: St Andrews case study
CRIS/repository overview
DSpace
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IRUS-UK implementation
Dspace hosted by Scottish Digital Library Consortium (SDLC)
Dspace plugin and support provided by IRUS-UK
First SDLC implementation (RGU) Dec 2012
St Andrews patching and testing Feb-Mar 2013
Implemented April 2013, rolled out to other SDLC sites
Analysis, feedback and discussion on stats and reports
Joined IRUS-UK Community Advisory Group Feb 2014
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Metadata quality: checking DOIs
Metadata Views > Article DOI summary report by IR
Check % with DOIs, investigate…
Statistics Reports > Article Report (AR4)
order by DOI
see what needs fixed
understand reasons, eg OJS journals
DOI duplicates (DD1)
Doi Inthanon, highest mountain in Thailand
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No DOI
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Item in Dspace without DOI
Add DOI in Pure
Discovered article without DOI (shown in Dspace)
Go into Pure to edit the metadata
DOI pushed through to Dspace
Follow up… do downloads increase?
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Checking the pulse (trends, comparisons)
Comparisons with other repositories
Comparison with Google Analytics
Differences in item types
Unusual behaviour (theses)
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IRUS-UK Item Report (IR1)
Google Analytics
Note high usage of ETDs, similar scene at Edinburgh
Increasing trend shown by IRUS
GA stats tell a different story (down to technical reasons)
IRUS-UK ETD Report (ETD1)
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Promoting ebook usage
Collaboration with Research Centre:
St Andrews Studies in French History and Culture
Repository as primary publishing source of ebook series
Case study published
Validating open access publishing route
Example – ‘Hold Still Madame…’ – usage since launch
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Search “Hold still” for item stats
IRUS and GA tell similar story
Can see trend from publication date
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Promoting article usage
Top downloads (AR4)
Promoting use of our content
‘Filtering’ the reports to promote usage, without showing as ranking or hard facts
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Comparing article usage
Comparing usage of mirrored OA content
Articles in more than one repository
PLoS ONE example – Crowdedness mediates the effect…’ in both St Andrews and Sussex repositories
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Comparing article usage
PLoS ONE example – Crowdedness mediates the effect…’
PLoS: 326 PDF downloads (2,000+ HTML views)
PMC 19
IRUS: downloads.
Altmetrics available (46)
PDF downloads: Repositories 141 / Publisher 326
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Part of a healthy community
Learning from peers
Involved in developments
Understanding metrics
Supporting open access
DOIs for other content types
Sharing common standards (COUNTER)
Recommending IRUS-compliance for Pure via UK User Group
Mention DataSpring proposal for minting DOIs for theses, and potential for usage of Research Data to be measured
Photograph taken by E. Gilchrist at the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation, Chiang Rai, Thailand .
From Plotnik JM, de Waal FBM. (2014) Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) reassure others in distress. PeerJ 2:e278 distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
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18. Jackie Proven jep10@st-andrews.ac.uk
Repository & Open Access Services Manager, University of St Andrews