- UsageCounts service is an OpenAIRE service built after the development of the Usage Statistics Service within
- OpenAIRE. UsageCounts forms metrics of usage activity of Open Access Repositories categorizing the data
- retrieved by country, number of downloads, number of views, number of repositories and all derivative
- quantitative open metrics, in a comprehensive way for all stakeholders.
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+
About
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+ UsageCounts service is an OpenAIRE service built to cover the needs of content providers and consumers and
+ offer
+ added value to assist them in reaching their goals. UsageCounts forms metrics of usage activity of Open Access
+ Repositories categorizing the data retrieved by country, number of downloads, number of views, number of
+ repositories and all derivative quantitative open metrics, comprehensively.
+
- UsageCounts service is an OpenAIRE service built after the development of the Usage Statistics Service within
- OpenAIRE. UsageCounts forms metrics of usage activity of Open Access Repositories categorizing the data
- retrieved by country, number of downloads, number of views, number of repositories and all derivative
- quantitative open metrics, in a comprehensive way for all stakeholders.
+
+
+
About
+
+ UsageCounts service is an OpenAIRE service built to cover the needs of content providers and consumers and
+ offer
+ added value to assist them in reaching their goals. UsageCounts forms metrics of usage activity of Open Access
+ Repositories categorizing the data retrieved by country, number of downloads, number of views, number of
+ repositories and all derivative quantitative open metrics, comprehensively.
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Architecture
UsageCounts service collects usage activity from OpenAIRE content providers for usage events related to
- research products of the OpenAIRE graph, creates and deploys aggregated statistics for these products.
+ research products of the OpenAIRE
+ Research Graph, creates and deploys aggregated statistics for these
+ products.
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UsageCounts service collects usage activity from OpenAIRE content providers for usage events related to
- research products of the OpenAIRE graph, creates and deploys aggregated statistics for these products.
+ research products of the OpenAIRE
+ Research Graph, creates and deploys aggregated statistics for these
+ products.
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Architecture & Workflows
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Architecture functionalities
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Constant tracking of views and downloads of open science repositories registered on OpenAIRE PROVIDE
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Creation of downloadable reports available only for content providers
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Instant connection with the OpenAIRE Research Graph
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Compatibility with COUNTER Code of Practice that provides standards based usage statistics and enables
- comparability with statistics from other data sources
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Anonymisation of IP-addresses
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Architecture & Workflows
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- Push
- Usage Statistics Tracking Workflow
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An institutional repository is registered in OpenAIRE.
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Server side tracking: Plugins (Dspace) or patches (Eprints) using Matomo’s Web Analytics HTTP API.
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Usage Activity is tracked and logged in real time.
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Ιnformation is transferred offline to OpenAIRE’s DBs for statistical analysis.
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Statistics are deployed for human (OpenAIRE’s Portal) and machine (Sushi-Lite API) consumption.
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Architecture functionalities
+
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+
Constant tracking of views and downloads of open science content providers registered on OpenAIRE
+ PROVIDE.
+
+
Creation of downloadable reports available only for content providers.
+
Instant connection with the OpenAIRE Research Graph.
+
Compatibility with COUNTER Code of Practice that provides standards based usage statistics and
+ enables
+ comparability with statistics from other data sources.
+
- UsageCounts service collects usage data from repositories, journals and other scientific data sources,
- aggregates them and delivers standardized activity reports about research usage and uptake. It complements
- existing citation mechanisms and assists institutional repository managers, research communities, research
- organizations, funders and policy makers track and evaluate research from an early stage.
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UsageCounts Service
+ by OpenAIRE
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+ UsageCounts service collects usage data from Open Science content providers repositories, journals, and
+ other scientific data sources. Then, it aggregates them, delivering standardized activity reports about
+ research usage and uptake. It complements existing citation mechanisms and assists institutional repository
+ managers, research communities, research organizations, funders, and policy makers to track and evaluate
+ research from an early stage.
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+ OpenAIRE UsageCounts applies the Open Metrics framework which
+ standardizes the sharing and exchange of usage
+ data and develops trusted metrics to promote open science.
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+ UsageCounts is valuable for various stakeholders that either
+ provide or consume open science data metrics.
+ The value for both user groups, briefly are;
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- OpenAIRE UsageCounts is part of an Open Metrics framework which intends to standardize the sharing and exchange
- of usage data (views and downloads) and develop trusted metrics to promote open science.
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Providers
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Accurate and objective performance measures monitoring of repository content
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Evidence based analytical metrics of views, downloads of research, aggregated from all over the world
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Activity and trends of open science topics
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Consumers
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Overview of research outcomes per country or domain
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Trustable, accurate statistics of open science research
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Evaluate the result of invested funds, policies, measures and view impact
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Providers
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Accurate and objective performance measures monitoring of repository content.
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Evidence based analytical metrics of views and downloads, aggregated from all over the world.
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Activity and trends of open science topics.
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Consumers
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Overview of research outcomes per country or domain.
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Trustable, accurate statistics of open science research.
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Evaluate the result of invested funds, policies, measures and view impact.
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Who is it for?
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Who and why is it for?
- UsageCounts offers standardized and comparable reports that measure the uptake
- of research outcomes. Below are the two main categories of users that can benefit from UsageCounts and the
- actions they can perform.
+ UsageCounts offers standardized and comparable reports that measure the uptake of research outcomes.
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Repository managers, publishers
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For Open Science repository managers and Publishers
- Register in OpenAIRE (via PROVIDE ),
- share usage activity from your repository and receive cleaned and combined
- statistics from aggregated usage data from sources around the world. Share
- COUNTER
- compliant reports via standard SUSHI-Lite APIs.
+ Perform the prerequisites -register your content in OpenAIRE
+ PROVIDE,
+ then share usage activity from your repository - and receive standardized statistics from aggregated usage
+ data from sources around the world.
Research performing & funding organizations, research infrastructures, policy
- makers
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For Research performing & funding organizations, research infrastructures and
+ policy makers
- View research uptake, identify science trends based on user activity, examine the engagement and evolution
- or research popularity.
+ Retrieve easily, fast and dynamically view research uptake, identify science trends based on user activity,
+ examine the engagement, and evolution or research popularity.
- The resources of the OpenAIRE UsageCounts Service are
- available through the OpenAIRE PROVIDE product, which is serving the content providers.
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- “OpenAIRE PROVIDE is a product that enables data providers to register and observe their data activity on
- OpenAIRE, by accessing the OpenAIRE Provide Dashboard”.
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- The OpenAIRE Provide supports the following functionalities for the
- UsageCounts Service:
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A registration process to the service for repository managers.
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The required resources and instructions to deploy the service.
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Visualization and exporting tools for publishing and downloading usage statistics reports.
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- Important: All the information that content providers offer to
- OpenAIRE, is first validated, enriched, and
- then indexed on the OpenAIRE PROVIDE. Only then, after this verification and if needed, enhancement process,
- the metadata records are indexed on OpenAIRE PROVIDE, ensuring transparency, security, and trust of data.
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- There are a variety of reports generated via OpenAIRE UsageCounts Service and are available via a SUSHI-Lite
- Endpoint (anchor). The reports comply with
- COUNTER
- CoP Release 4.
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AR-1 - Article Report 1.
- This report enables you to view the number of successful article download requests by
- month and repository. There are filtering options to limit the results to a selected journal or repository. It
- can provide results for an individual month or over a number of months and can be output in JSON format.
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IR-1 - Item Report 1.
- This report enables you to view the number of successful item download requests by
- month and repository identifier. There are filtering options to limit the results to a selected item or
- repository
- identifier or item data type. It can provide results for an individual month or over a number of months and
- can be output in JSON format.
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JR-1 - Journal Report 1.
- This report enables you to view the number of
- successful full-text article requests by month and journal. There are filtering options to limit the results
- to a selected journal or item data type. It can provide results for an individual month or over a number of
- months and can be output in JSON format.
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RR-1 - Repository Report 1.
- This report enables you to view the
- number of successful item downloads for all repositories participating in the usage statistics service. There
- are filtering options to limit the results to a repository identifier or selected item type. It can provide
- results for an individual month or over a number of months and can be output in JSON format.
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BR-1 - Book Report 1.
- This report enables you to view the number of successful book title requests by month and title.
- There are filtering options to limit the results to a repository identifier or selected item identifier. It
- can provide results for an individual month or over a number of months and can be output in JSON format.
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BR-2 - Book Report 2.
- This report enables you to download the number of successful book section requests by month
- and title. There are filtering options to limit the results to a repository identifier or selected item
- identifier. It can provide results for an individual month or over a number of months and can be output in
- JSON format.
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APIs and Reports
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+ A variety of reports generated via OpenAIRE UsageCounts Service are available via a SUSHI-Lite Endpoint. The
+ reports comply with
+ COUNTER
+ CoP Release 4.
+
+
+
AR-1 - Article Report 1.
+ This report enables you to view the number of successful article download requests by month and repository.
+ There are filtering options to limit the results to a selected journal or repository. It can provide results
+ for an individual month or over a number of months and can be output in JSON format.
+
+
IR-1 - Item Report 1.
+ This report enables you to view the number of successful item download requests by month and repository
+ identifier. There are filtering options to limit the results to a selected item or repository identifier or
+ item data type. It can provide results for an individual month or over a number of months and can be output
+ in
+ JSON format.
+
+
JR-1 - Journal Report 1.
+ This report enables you to view the number of successful full-text article requests by month and journal.
+ There are filtering options to limit the results to a selected journal or item data type. It can provide
+ results for an individual month or over a number of months and can be output in JSON format.
+
+
RR-1 - Repository Report 1.
+ This report enables you to view the number of successful item downloads for all repositories participating
+ in
+ the usage statistics service. There are filtering options to limit the results to a repository identifier or
+ selected item type. It can provide results for an individual month or over a number of months and can be
+ output in JSON format.
+
+
BR-1 - Book Report 1.
+ This report enables you to view the number of successful book title requests by month and title. There are
+ filtering options to limit the results to a repository identifier or selected item identifier. It can
+ provide
+ results for an individual month or over a number of months and can be output in JSON format.
+
+
BR-2 - Book Report 2.
+ This report enables you to download the number of successful book section requests by month and title. There
+ are filtering options to limit the results to a repository identifier or selected item identifier. It can
+ provide results for an individual month or over a number of months and can be output in JSON format.
+