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Exchange usage statistics with IRUS
Introduction
IRUS (Institutional Repository Usage Statistics) enables Institutional Repositories to share and expose statistics based on the COUNTER standard.
It offers opportunities for benchmarking and acts as an intermediary between repositories and other agencies.
IRUS is currently available in the following areas/countries:
- United Kingdom: https://irus.jisc.ac.uk/
- Australia and New-Zealand: https://irus.jisc.ac.uk/irus-anz/
- United States: https://irus.jisc.ac.uk/irus-us/
Prerequisite
The DSpace server should be able to access the tracker’s base production and test URL's.
The tracker's base production URL will depend on the area/country where your repository is located:
- United Kingdom: http://irus.jisc.ac.uk/counter/
- Australia and New-Zealand: https://irus.jisc.ac.uk/counter/anz/
- United States: https://irus.jisc.ac.uk/counter/us/
The tracker's base test URL is common to all areas/countries:
https://irus.jisc.ac.uk/counter/test/
Access to the tracker's base URLs can easily be verified using a wget command with the applicable URL, e.g.:
wget https://irus.jisc.ac.uk/counter/test/
The above command should return a HTTP 200.
Configuration
Property | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
| Configuration used to enable the IRUS statistics tracker. Set to true to enable. | false |
irus.statistics.tracker.type-field | Metadata field to check if certain items should be excluded from tracking. If empty or commented out, all items are tracked. | |
irus.statistics.tracker.type-value | The values in the above metadata field that will be considered to be tracked. | |
irus.statistics.tracker.entity-types | The entity types to be included in the tracking. If left empty, only publication hits will be tracked. | Publication |
irus.statistics.tracker.environment | The tracker environment determines to which url the statistics are exported (test or prod). | test |
irus.statistics.tracker.testurl | The url to which the trackings are exported when testing. (In theory, this should be https://irus.jisc.ac.uk/counter/test/) | |
irus.statistics.tracker.produrl | The url to which the trackings are exported in production. (this will depend on your area/country, refer to the Prerequisite section) | |
irus.statistics.tracker.urlversion | Tracker version | |
irus.statistics.spider.agentregex.url | External URL to the COUNTER user agents file (e.g. https://github.com/atmire/COUNTER-Robots/blob/master/generated/COUNTER_Robots_list.txt) | |
irus.statistics.spider.agentregex.regexfile | Location where the user agents file should be downloaded to. |