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Statistics Package for EPrints (fwd)
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Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 17:31:13 +1000
From: Arthur Sale <ahjs@ozemail.com.au>
To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM@LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
Subject: Statistics Package for EPrints
Apologies for cross-posting
Following Eloy Rodrigues' posting of an excellent statistics
package for DSpace (I strongly recommend it to DSpace users), it
might be opportune to remind users of GNU EPrints that a similar
package has been available for EPrints for about 18 months. It is
downloadable from
http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/archive/00000262/.
The Statistics Add-on to the EPrints platform is responsible for
the gathering, processing and presentation of access, content and
administrative statistics generated by EPrints usage. It was
developed at UTas = University of Tasmania (Australia) based on
principles established by The University of Melbourne (Australia)
and the package was subsequently enhanced by feedback from the
University of Otago (New Zealand). Authors/depositors respond
very favorably to access to statistics about their papers,
especially if they are required to deposit (a "mandate"). They
then see a reason for depositing!
The system was designed to be adjustable to any environment,
because the components can easily be configured, changed or
extended, to respond to different information needs. The modules
are written in php and work off the archive logs with a few
(minimal) hooks into the Eprints mySQL database, mainly to
retrieve document titles. The insertion of new links on the entry
pages and the metadata display pages are usual. All the code is
open-source.
Important features of the UTas statistics system:
* Almost real time processing of event logs (adjustable from once
a day - most of us - to more frequently)
* Database based stored data (in a separate MySQL database)
* Detection and processing of the country of origin of accesses,
with the local campus separated out from the local country due to
its different characteristics
* Monthly download stats - allows detection of citation or
presentation events
* List of documents by access frequency in 4 weeks, monthly,
yearly or total (customizable)
* User-friendly graphics and tabular data, pretty realistic flags
For examples, see in alphabetical order Arizona
http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/, Otago http://eprints.otago.ac.nz/,
Rhodes http:// <http://eprints.ru.ac.za/> eprints.ru.ac.za, or
UTas http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/. In all cases look for
the Detailed Statistics link on the entry page for which I give
the URL, or browse for any document and you should find a link on
the metadata page. Hope you like what you see and install it too.
Let me know if you do.
Arthur Sale
Professor of Computing (Research)
University of Tasmania
Australia