For info, have a look at <
http://doc.cern.ch/impact>.
This is becoming fully part of CDSware package (
http://cdsware.cern.ch).
Contact cds.support_at_cern.ch if you are interested.
Best,
JY Le Meur.
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Arthur Sale wrote:
> Fish Food for the Clients
>
> This posting is to start a discussion of tackling the most difficult issue
> in eprints archives: that of encouraging clients to self-archive, by
> providing them with "fish food" (in Web parlance - what we call "berley" in
> Australia - food scattered on the waters to attract feeding fish). To be
> less obscure, to provide them useful information about the fate of their
> archived documents so they are encouraged to provide more.
>
> In the University of Tasmania we started off by interfacing Eprints and
> awstats (an open source statistics package with great graphics that works
> off the logs, but alas more server and administrator oriented); see
> http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/awstats/. We will keep awstats as part of
> our feedback armory, however. It offers much useful managerial and research
> information for the School of Computing.
>
> In the meantime we found out about a University of Queensland initiative,
> which is based around an addition to the Eprints database, whereby a
> "download count" is incremented every time a full-text link is clicked, or
> an abstract viewed, see http://eprint.uq.edu.au/top50papers.html. The
> Queensland University of Technology have also adopted this scheme under
> license. Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW,
> http://arrow.edu.au/) have also adopted a variant of this scheme, but are at
> the moment inaccessible prior to the official launch of the Discovery
> Service in November. We chose to not go down this route, however.
>
> We also found that the University of Melbourne had implemented a good
> reporting scheme, much more client-friendly, but still not to our
> specifications, see
> http://dozer.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/es/index.php?action=cumulative_usage_country.
> UniMelb have let us have their software as part of an exchange, and we
> are currently working on making it fit our specifications (not up yet, will
> advise). This approach works off the access logs rather than a modification
> to Eprints, so is probably more package-independent. I'd welcome any comment
> or assistance.
>
> Arthur Sale
> Professor of Computing (Research)
>
> ----
>
> Pertinent Prior Amsci Topic Threads:
>
> "Preaching the gospel of self-archiving" (2000)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0595.html
>
> "Self-Archiving's Why's" (2000)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0932.html
>
> "Incentives" (2000) "Incentives and self-archiving" (2001)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0725.html
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1189.html
>
> "Questionnaires for self-archivers and non-archivers" (2001)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1063.html
>
> "Accelerating the citation cycle" (2001)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1211.html
>
> "Beyond Access and Impact: The Ultimate Benefit of SkyReading/Writing" (2001)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1674.html
>
> "The self-archiving sweepstakes" (2002)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1974.html
>
> "Testing the citation-ranking search engine: Citebase" (2002)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2122.html
>
> "Draft Policy for Self-Archiving University Research Output" (2003)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2550.html
>
> "Powerpoints for Promoting Self-Archiving of Institutional
> Research Output" (2003)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2815.html
>
> "How to compare research impact of toll- vs. open-access research" (2003)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2859.html
>
> "Central versus institutional self-archiving" (2003)
> "http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3206.html"
>
> "Measuring cumulating research impact loss across fields and time" (2003)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3213.html
>
> "What Provosts Need to Mandate" (2003)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3241.html
>
> "University policy mandating self-archiving of research output" (2004)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3439.html
>
> "Meeting: National Policies on Open Access Provision for
> University Research Output" (2004)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3537.html
>
> "On the Strong Causal Connection Between Access and Impact" (2004)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3697.html
>
> "Mandating OA around the corner?" (2004)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3830.html
>
> "Implementing the US/UK recommendation to mandate OA Self-Archiving" (2004)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3892.html
>
> "Early Download Impact Predicts Later Citation Impact" (2004)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3951.html
>
> "Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact?" (2004)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3975.html
>
> "How To Support Institutional OA Archive Start-Up and
> OA Content Provision" (2004)
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4002.html
>
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