[Dspace-general] Stats

Thu May 24 11:37:12 EDT 2007

Hi,

The RepositóriUM team at Minho University
(https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/) developed and packed new versions of
the RepositóriUM Statistics and Request-Copy Add-ons. This new versions
(1.1) of the Add-ons are mainly an upgrade for DSpace 1.4.x, but there are
also new features in both Add-ons:

Statistics Add-on: 

- Detection, processing and distinction of access/downloads from the
repository institution 

- New 3:4 country flags (Courtesy from Arthur Sale)

Request Copy Add-on:

- Change access to Open Access option at the end of the replying process.

The new versions of the Add-ons are available on the DSpace Wiki:

 <http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/StatisticsAddOn>
http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/StatisticsAddOn

 <http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/RequestCopy>
http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/RequestCopy

We are planning to work on a 2.0 version of the Statistics during 2007, with
improved interface, new statistics, graphic representations of data, etc. If
you’re using, or plan to use the statistics add-on, and want to discuss
and/or contribute to the development of the DSpace statistics, please
contact us using the following email address: repositorium at sdum.uminho.pt.

A description of both add-ons is included below.

Statistics Add-on

The Stats system is an add-on to the DSpace platform. This system is
responsible for the gathering, processing and presentation of access,
content and administrative statistics generated by DSpace usage. It was
developed based on the principles and some of the components of the
statistics application created and released by ANU. Despite the fact that
the development was made to respond to the specific needs of RepositóriUM,
the system is completely adjustable to other environments, because their
components can easily be configured, changed or extended, to respond to
different information needs.

Important features of the Statistics system:

*	Real time processing of event logs 
*	Database based stored mechanism of statistics 
*	Real time detection and processing of access country origin 
*	Detection, processing and distinction of own institution access 
*	Semi-real time detection and exclusion of crawlers 
*	Definition of user Access policies at individual statistic and data
level 
*	Customizable statistics queries 
*	Customizable web interface look and feel of each statistic 

Request Copy Add-on

It was suggested by Stevan Harnad that we develop a "request eprint by
email" feature for DSpace, similar to one that has recently been implemented
in GNU Eprints for deposits whose full-text access privileges are set to
Restricted Access (RA) rather than Open Access (OA), in order to tide over
any RA period with facilitated email access. The Request Copy Add-on is this
feature developed initially for DSpace 1.3.2 and now also available for
DSpace 1.4.

The purpose of this feature is to increase both the content deposited in
Institutional Repositories (IRs) and its immediate usability by providing a
way to accommodate the (frequently unfounded) worries of authors and their
institutions about copyright infringement during any publisher embargo
periods on public self-archiving, by creating a semi-automated mechanism
whereby would-be users can request and authors can email an individual copy
of a full-text deposited with access set as RA.

This feature will be very important for advancing OA if universities and
other research institutions adopt the Generic Model for an Open-Access
Self-Archiving Mandate (
<http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html>
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html). In this
model, depositing immediately (upon acceptance for publication) is mandatory
whereas setting deposit immediately to OA is merely encourages, leaving the
decision up to the author.

This is how the “Request Copy” feature works:

1- In all non-OA items (we consider non-OA all DSpace items/files that have
access different from Anonymous) there is a link to a “Request a Copy to the
author” Form, activated in the View/Open link and also on the “Restricted
Access/Request-a-copy” logo that we added at the side.

2- The requester must enter his/her email address and name, and may add a
comment, and press a “Request-a-copy” button.

3 – An email is sent to the depositor (either one of the authors, or their
designee). The text of the mail is configurable (in our case we made an
express statement to forward the mail to the author(s) if the depositor is
not author). The email message contains a token. 

4 – Using that token, the author may reply, by just clicking in one of the
two buttons available: “Send Copy”, “Don’t send copy”.

5 – After choosing the Send/Don’t send reply, the author is presented with
one of the two message models (also configurable and editable) for the
reply. Finally, the author must hit the Send button, and the message
(including the file(s) if the author chose the Send option) is sent to the
requester.

6 – At the end of the process the author is presented with the option to
change the access to Open Access. The author must enter his/her name and
email address and hitting a button “Change to Open Access”. If the author
chose to change the access to Open Access, a message is sent to the
repository administrator(s) that must manually change the access level. 

Best Regards,

Ricardo Saraiva
______________________________________
Universidade do Minho - Serviços de Documentação
Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga
Ext. 605153 

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De: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu]
Em nome de Jaco Fourie
Enviada: quinta-feira, 24 de Maio de 2007 15:48
Para: dspace-general at mit.edu
Assunto: [Dspace-general] Stats

I need to set-up stats on DSpace. could anybody please help me about the
topic. Should I uase Google Analytics

or is there a stats pack for DSpace that works.

Thanks

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