‘Article level’ usage statistics for publishers and repositories

"The PIRUS (Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics ) project explored how usage statistics for individual articles could be collected from repositories and publishers and then combined to produce consolidated usage reports." Its final report appeared in January 2009. PIRUS2, which starts on October 1, 2009, will "[1] Develop a suite of free, open source programmes to support the generation and sharing of COUNTER compliant usage data and statistics that can be extended to cover any and all individual items in institutional and subject repositories, [2] Develop a prototype article level publisher/repository statistics service, and [3] Define a core set of standard useful statistical reports that repositories could/should produce for internal and external consumption."