The EPrints team has released an open-source tool to analyze IR usage. From yesterday's announcement:
We are happy to announce the beta release of the IRStats package - a tool for analysing usage of institutional repositories.
Please see the examples page for demonstrations of IRStats:
Headline features:
Agnostic to repository software - support for EPrints and (beta) DSpace
Aggressive filtering of robots and other automated agents (using AWStats and bespoke techniques)
Analyse groups of eprints based on a simple CSV-format specification - by-author, by-school etc.
IRStats is released as Open Source under a BSD license. (Note: currently IRStats requires ChartDirector, which has a free trial available - see the Installation notes) ...
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/31/2007 12:13:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
