The Need for Openness for Usage Data across Library Services

A guest editorial on The need for openness for usage data across library services  has been published in the UKSG  eNews online newsletter dated. 11 May 2012. The editorial is based on a paper on ‘Open Metrics for Open Repositories’ which has been accepted by the Open Repositories 2012 conference which will take place in Edinburgh in July 2012.  The paper begins:

Increasingly there is a need for quantitative evidence in order to help demonstrate the value of online services. Such evidence can also help to detect emerging patterns of usage and identify associated operational best practices.

and concludes:

Repository managers should be pro-active in showing a willingness to provide open access to repository metrics, which is felt to be consistent with the culture of openness which underpins those involved in the provision and support of open access repositories.

The paper was written to complement our work in supporting open practices within the UK higher and further education sector which includes a series of guest blog posts which were published in March-April on the UK Web Focus blog.

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