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From: <b>Peter Shepherd</b> <<a href="mailto:pt_shepherd@hotmail.com">pt_shepherd@hotmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:48 AM<br>
Subject: Final Report on PIRUS2 - Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics 2 - now published<br>
To: <a href="mailto:LIB-STATS@jiscmail.ac.uk">LIB-STATS@jiscmail.ac.uk</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Publication of the Final Report of PIRUS2 –
<u>P</u>ublisher and <u>I</u>nstitutional <u>R</u>epository <u>U</u>sage <u>S</u>tatistics 2</span></b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">JISC (the UK Joint Information Systems Committee) has funded PIRUS
<b>(P</b>ublisher and <b>I</b>nstitutional <b>R</b>epository <b>U</b>sage <b>S</b>tatistics Project ) to develop a COUNTER-compliant standard for usage statistics at the individual article level, which can be implemented by any entity (publisher, aggregator,
repository, etc.,) that hosts online journal articles and will enable the usage of research outputs to be recorded, reported and consolidated at a global level in a consistent way. The PIRUS2 project is now complete and the Final Report is now available on
the COUNTER website at: <a href="http://www.projectcounter.org/News/Pirus2_oct2011.pdf" target="_blank">
http://www.projectcounter.org/News/Pirus2_oct2011.pdf</a> .</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">The aim of PIRUS2<b>
</b>was to take forward the outcomes of the original PIRUS project and build on its recommendations, by developing a prototype service (including technical, organizational and economic models for a Central Clearing House) that will enable publishers, repositories
and other organizations to generate and share authoritative, trustworthy usage statistics for the individual articles that they host.</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">PIRUS2 has achieved its overall aims by delivering a prototype service that meets the following criteria:</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">A workable technical model, refined from that proposed in the original PIRUS project with more extensive tests with a larger and more diverse data set<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">A practical organizational model based on co-operation between proven, existing suppliers of data processing, data management and auditing services that meets the requirement for an independent, trusted
and reliable service<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">An economic model that provides a cost-effective service and a logical, transparent basis for allocating costs among the different users of the service.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Peter Shepherd</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Project Director - COUNTER
</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:pshepherd@projectCounter.org" target="_blank">pshepherd@projectCounter.org</a></span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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