Project Results

We are pleased to present you the first results of the OA Statistics project.

As of now, the specification of the data format and exchange is available as draft version 0.5.
A demonstrational data provider provides the aggregated usage data as XML according to OAI-PMH 2.0.
This webpage shows a possible visualisation of the usage data as an interactive histogram.

We are looking forward to your questions, comments and suggestions.

Publications

Mittelsdorf, Björn: "How to assess the impact of an electronic document? And what does impact mean anyway? Reliable usage statistics in heterogeneous repository communities". OCLC Systems & Services. Volume 26 (2010) Issue 2, p. 133-145. June 10, 2010.
Herb, Ulrich: "Alternative Impact Measures for Open Access Documents? An examination how to generate interoperable usage information from distributed open access services". Proceedings of the World Library and Information Congress: 76th IFLA General Conference and Assembly. May 29, 2010.
Mittelsdorf et al.: "Nutzungsstatistiken elektronischer Publikationen". DINI Schriften 11-de [Version 1.0]. August 2009.
Schulze, Matthias: "Measuring the Usage of Cultural Heritage Documents: The German Project Open Access-Statistics". World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Council, 23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy. 92th Statistics and Evaluation, Information Technology and Preservation and Conservation Meeting. [Also available in French]
Henneberger, Sabine: "Impact von Open-Access-Publikationen". cms-journal 32. June 2009. S. 77-80.
Merk, Christine; Windisch, Nils K. "Usage Statistics Review: Final report". JISC, September 24, 2008.

Many more presentations (in German) can be found on the corresponding page.

"Open-Access-Statistics". Poster for CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI6)