and another here is another project focusing on usage data and statistics: Open Access Statistics: http://www.dini.de/projekte/oa-statistik/english/ funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG).
Best regards Ulrich Herb Saarland University and State Library, Germany Repository Manager, Specialist Electronic Publishing & Open Access http://www.sulb.uni-saarland.de/de/service/publikationsangebote/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ulrich_Herb Address:Â Â Â POB 15 11 41, D-66041 Saarbruecken Telephone:Â +49-681-302-2798 Fax:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â +49-681-302-2796 Am 23.08.2010 11:02, schrieb C.J.Smith: Of relevance here is the JISC-funded PIRUS project (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwe do/programmes/pals3/pirus.aspx), which is developing publisher-repository-combin ed COUNTER-compliant usage stats, as I understand it. Colin Smith Research Repository Manager Open Research Online (ORO) Open University Library Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Tel: +44(0)1908 332971 Email: [email protected] Web: http://oro.open.ac.uk Blog: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/ORO Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/smithcolin -----Original Message----- From: Stevan Harnad [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 23 August 2010 04:27 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: download counts and self-archiving On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Michael Smith <[email protected]> wrote: When I was pitching self-archiving to some colleagues last week, two of them mentioned the following argument AGAINST self-archiving. University bean-counters have started using the number of times articles are downloaded (from publishers sites, I guess) as a measure of faculty productivity or impact. If one self-archives, then people will be less likely to download from the publishers site, thereby lowering one's download score. I can think of various reasons why this is NOT a good reason to avoid self-archiving, but I wonder if there are any data on this, or if any bibliometric researchers have addressed this topic explicitly. Here are just a few reasons (each one of them a no-brainer): (1) More accessibility does not decrease total downloads, it increases them. (2) OA self-archiving, while increasing total downloads, may shift some of the download traffic from the publisher's website to the institutional repository. (3) Download counts from the institutional repository can be added to download counts from the publisher's websites. (4) Open Access self-archiving also increases citations -- another, more venerable target of the bean-counters. (5) Increased downloads lead to increased citations. How many more reasons do the bean-counters need, to mandate OA self-archiving? Michael E. Smith, Professor School of Human Evolution & Social Change Arizona State University www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9
