Open COUNTER-conformant Institutional Repository Usage Statistics (IRUS):Thinking Beyond Top 10 Lists

This session focuses on how Jisc's Institutional Repository Usage Statistics (IRUS) service has helped US institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Michigan, and University of Delaware to align and assess usage metrics across library resources, benchmark usage against peer repositories at other institutions, and invest in open infrastructure to advocate more effectively about the value of making scholarly research material openly available. We use statistics as a concrete starting point for a larger discussion of strategies for articulating the value of repositories to different stakeholders (including researchers and administrators); and look at IRUS in the context of other complementary initiatives, such as the Open Global Data Citation Corpus. By considering these different projects, we hope to make space for a wide-ranging discussion of approaches to repository assessment and consider more broadly what generalized repository statistics can and can't accomplish.