Repository Usage Statistics Gredos | blog Gredos

[From Google's English] "Until June 2012 it was not possible to have a module operating usage statistics in the repository Gredos. The module is currently installed at the University of Tasmania and data collected from March 2011. Previously, attempts to DSpace statistics module and plugin to different existing DSpace, as statistics from the University of Minho and Statistics, University of Tasmania, had not been successful for two main reasons: the first because in the case of the plugin implementation and commissioning was not supported by 1.5.x versions of DSpace, version used initially in the repository, and later with version 1.6.2 now operational, because the particular server configuration and volume of content repository configuration posed many problems when you install any of the modules. The large number of documents stored in the repository and the particular configuration of the servers took a deep customization of standard statistics module Tasmania. Thus, the add-on installed in Gredos is configured as a feature of interest for monitoring usage data repositories in more populous. As for the data on the use of the repository, the statistics module of the University of Tasmania provides data on the number of visits and downloads the repository since 2011 until today. The ability to provide users of the repository updated on levels of use of the resource as a whole and of each of the documents filed in it assumes that an author can know at any time the level of visibility that reach their jobs as a result information availability of open access, and which one receives more attention from users of the repository. Furthermore, the repository manager can evaluate the increased use of the repository as the number of archived documents and the same origin of visitors and downloads works as well as sections of it that are more impact, for example, enable the design of strategies to strengthen and enrich the sections with lower use."