For info, have a look at <http://doc.cern.ch/impact>. This is becoming fully part of CDSware package (http://cdsware.cern.ch).
Contact [email protected] if you are interested. Best, JY Le Meur. On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Arthur Sale wrote: > Fish Food for the Clients > > This posting is to start a discussion of tackling the most difficult issue > in eprints archives: that of encouraging clients to self-archive, by > providing them with "fish food" (in Web parlance - what we call "berley" in > Australia - food scattered on the waters to attract feeding fish). To be > less obscure, to provide them useful information about the fate of their > archived documents so they are encouraged to provide more. > > In the University of Tasmania we started off by interfacing Eprints and > awstats (an open source statistics package with great graphics that works > off the logs, but alas more server and administrator oriented); see > http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/awstats/. We will keep awstats as part of > our feedback armory, however. It offers much useful managerial and research > information for the School of Computing. > > In the meantime we found out about a University of Queensland initiative, > which is based around an addition to the Eprints database, whereby a > "download count" is incremented every time a full-text link is clicked, or > an abstract viewed, see http://eprint.uq.edu.au/top50papers.html. The > Queensland University of Technology have also adopted this scheme under > license. Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW, > http://arrow.edu.au/) have also adopted a variant of this scheme, but are at > the moment inaccessible prior to the official launch of the Discovery > Service in November. We chose to not go down this route, however. > > We also found that the University of Melbourne had implemented a good > reporting scheme, much more client-friendly, but still not to our > specifications, see > http://dozer.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/es/index.php?action=cumulative_usage_country. > UniMelb have let us have their software as part of an exchange, and we > are currently working on making it fit our specifications (not up yet, will > advise). This approach works off the access logs rather than a modification > to Eprints, so is probably more package-independent. I'd welcome any comment > or assistance. > > Arthur Sale > Professor of Computing (Research) > > ---- > > Pertinent Prior Amsci Topic Threads: > > "Preaching the gospel of self-archiving" (2000) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0595.html > > "Self-Archiving's Why's" (2000) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0932.html > > "Incentives" (2000) "Incentives and self-archiving" (2001) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0725.html > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1189.html > > "Questionnaires for self-archivers and non-archivers" (2001) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1063.html > > "Accelerating the citation cycle" (2001) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1211.html > > "Beyond Access and Impact: The Ultimate Benefit of SkyReading/Writing" > (2001) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1674.html > > "The self-archiving sweepstakes" (2002) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1974.html > > "Testing the citation-ranking search engine: Citebase" (2002) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2122.html > > "Draft Policy for Self-Archiving University Research Output" (2003) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2550.html > > "Powerpoints for Promoting Self-Archiving of Institutional > Research Output" (2003) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2815.html > > "How to compare research impact of toll- vs. open-access research" (2003) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2859.html > > "Central versus institutional self-archiving" (2003) > "http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3206.html"; > > "Measuring cumulating research impact loss across fields and time" (2003) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3213.html > > "What Provosts Need to Mandate" (2003) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3241.html > > "University policy mandating self-archiving of research output" (2004) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3439.html > > "Meeting: National Policies on Open Access Provision for > University Research Output" (2004) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3537.html > > "On the Strong Causal Connection Between Access and Impact" (2004) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3697.html > > "Mandating OA around the corner?" (2004) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3830.html > > "Implementing the US/UK recommendation to mandate OA Self-Archiving" > (2004) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3892.html > > "Early Download Impact Predicts Later Citation Impact" (2004) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3951.html > > "Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact?" (2004) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3975.html > > "How To Support Institutional OA Archive Start-Up and > OA Content Provision" (2004) > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4002.html >
