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"Usage Statistics about items and content providers support the assessment of their popularity and use. They are an important complement to other kinds of metrics." (OpenAIRE)

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Last updated 6 years ago

Paul Needham presents on IRUS-UK. IRUS-UK, a national aggregation service, which contains details of all content downloaded from participating IRs in the UK. By collecting raw usage data and processing them into item-level usage statistics, following rules specified by COUNTER, IRUS-UK provides comparable and authoritative standards-based data and also acts as an intermediary between UK repositories and other agencies.

https://www.projectcounter.org/code-of-practice-sections/general-information/www.projectcounter.org
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