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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:16.8pt'><span style='color:#333333'>Announcing
PIRUS 2: a project to develop practical standards for recording and reporting
online usage at the individual article level<br>
<br>
PIRUS 2, supported by JISC, the United Kingdom Joint Information Systems
Committee, is a co-operative project involving repositories and publishers,
which will develop a set of standards, protocols and processes to enable
publishers, repositories and other organizations to generate and share
authoritative, trustworthy usage statistics for the individual articles and
other items that they host.<br>
<br>
PIRUS 2 builds on the standards already established by COUNTER and on the
results of the original PIRUS (Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage
Statistics) project, which demonstrated that it is technically feasible to create
record and consolidate usage statistics for individual articles using data from
repositories and publishers, despite the diversity of organizational and
technical environments in which they operate.<br>
<br>
Until now the most granular level at which COUNTER requires reporting of usage
is at the individual journal level. A number of recent developments have,
however, means that it would now be appropriate to give a higher priority to
developing a COUNTER standard for the recording, reporting and consolidation of
usage statistics at the individual article level.<br>
<br>
PIRUS 2 will seek to meet the following main objectives:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;line-height:16.8pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Develop a suite of free,
open source programmes to support the generation and sharing of COUNTER
compliant usage data and statistics that can be extended to cover any and
all individual items in institutional and subject repositories <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;line-height:16.8pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Develop a prototype
article level Publisher/Repository usage statistics service <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;line-height:16.8pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Define a core set of
standard usage statistics reports that repositories could/should produce
for internal and external consumption <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;line-height:16.8pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Assess the costs for
repositories and publishers of generating the required usage reports, as
well as the costs of any central clearing house/houses; investigate how
these costs could be allocated between stakeholders <o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:16.8pt'><span style='color:#333333'>PIRUS
2 is lead by Mimas (The University of Manchester) and Cranfield University; the
other primary partners are COUNTER, Oxford University Press and CrossRef<a
href="http://www.cranfieldlibrary.cranfield.ac.uk/pirus2/tiki-editpage.php?page=CrossRef"
title="Create page: CrossRef"><span style='color:#2277DD'>?</span></a>. Oxford
University, Southampton University and other Institutional Repositories will
also participate in PIRUS 2, together with publishers, subject repositories and
related projects, in UK, EU and USA. Work on PIRUS 2 commenced in October 2009
and the final report will be published in December 2010.<br>
<br>
For further information on PIRUS 2, please go to the project website at: <a
href="http://www.cranfieldlibrary.cranfield.ac.uk/pirus2/" target="_blank"><span
style='color:#2277DD'>http://www.cranfieldlibrary.cranfield.ac.uk/pirus2/</span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal>Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Paul A S Needham<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>___________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Research & Innovation Manager<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Kings Norton Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Cranfield University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Cranfield<o:p></o:p></p>
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