Presenters

Kenning Arlitsch, Montana State University

Jeff Mixter, OCLC Research

Webinar files

Slides (.pptx)

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GkQO2A_Ot8

Description

Researchers from Montana State University, OCLC Research, the University of New Mexico and the Association of Research Libraries have developed a new web service that accurately measures item downloads from institutional repositories (IR).

The web service called RAMP (Repository Analytics and Metrics Portal) represents a dramatic improvement in web analytics. The researchers have demonstrated that page-tagging analytics methods, such as Google Analytics, typically undercount item downloads from IR because they are not designed to measure non-HTML file downloads, while log file analytics typically over-count due to enormous robot traffic.

The research was funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through a grant proposal submitted by the partners in 2014 titled "Measuring Up: Assessing Accuracy of Reported Use and Impact of Digital Repositories." An article reporting the research appears in Library Hi Tech, Volume 35 Issue 1 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-11-2016-0122).

This webinar will be of interest to those who work with institutional repositories, those seeking to understand how and what is “counted” in web environments, and those who are considering the future of library metrics.

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