Over 1.5 million downloads per month: IRUS-UK measuring usage of UK institutional repositories | Jo Alcock, Hilary Jones and Anne Reed | 2015

"Institutional repositories (IRs) are important research management tools that can give increased visibility to the outputs of the UK academic community. IRUS-UK1 is helping librarians and repository managers to demonstrate the value and impact of their IRs, by providing consistent and comprehensive usage statistics, which allow benchmarking at a national level. By collecting and processing raw data on behalf of our participating repositories we are helping the community to interrogate, share and compare their statistics with IRs across the UK...."