5 May 2020
Jisc and LYRASIS will be launching a new service giving US universities and research organisations insight in the use of open access content published on their repositories.
Institutional Repositories Usage Statistics for the US (IRUS-US) is the first service to bring together standards-based usage statistics of participating repositories in the US. The service will enable US repositories to provide and gather comparable usage data, while also giving them the opportunity to benchmark usage at an international level.
IRUS-US is the first service to bring together standards-based usage statistics of participating repositories in the US. The service will enable US repositories to provide and gather comparable usage data, while also giving them the opportunity to benchmark usage at an international level.
The US is the fourth country to join the online repository community, alongside Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The University of Amsterdam, and online library and publication platform OAPEN, and CORE which hosts the world's largest collection of open access research papers, are also using the service.
Universities and research organisations can sign up to IRUS-US from 1 July 2020 by contacting Hannah Rosen, LYRASIS Scholarly Communication Specialist and Digitization Program Coordinator, at hannah.rosen@lyrasis.org.