18–20 Apr 2007
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

Usage statistics and demonstrator services

18 Apr 2007, 16:50
20m
Main auditorium (CERN)

Main auditorium

CERN

Speaker

Leslie Carr (Southampton University, UK)

Description

An understanding of the use of repositories and their contents is clearly desirable for authors and repository managers alike, as well as those who are analysing the state of scholarly communications. A number of individual initiatives have produced statistics of variious kinds for individual repositories, but the real challenge is to produce statistics that can be collected and compared transparently on a global scale. This presentation details the steps to be taken to address the issues to attain this capability

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Author

Leslie Carr (Southampton University, UK)

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