Welcome to the EOSC Future wiki!

IMPORTANT: Please be aware that this Wiki space is no longer actively maintained. The information in it applies to the discontinued EOSC Marketplace and Provider Portal, which have been replaced by the EOSC EU Node.
Information related to the EOSC EU Node is available via the official page <here>

What is it

EOSC Research Products Accounting, is powered by the OpenAIRE UsageCounts service. The service collects usage data from EOSC providers (Institutional Repositories, Data Repositories, etc), by utilising open standards and protocols and exploiting reliable, consolidated and comparable usage metrics like counts of research products downloads and metadata views, conformant to the COUNTER Code of Practice. The service delivers standardised usage reports about research usage and uptake, complements existing citation mechanisms and assists datasource managers, research communities, research organisations, funders and policy makers to track and evaluate research from an early stage.

Why to use it

EOSC Research Products Accounting, allows the sharing of usage statistics across the above distributed network and provides significant added value for different stakeholders. On the EOSC provider level, it can serve datasource managers and hosting institutions as a tool to evaluate the success of the publication platform. On the individual item level, it can demonstrate popular publications to authors and readers. In addition to other traditional (e.g. citation counts) and alternative metrics (e.g. mentions, recommendations) it can inform funding authorities in research evaluation processes.

Research Products Accounting on the item level can reflect relevance of a particular research output, of topics, of (disciplinary) data sources over the course of time and up to the present, e.g. they are an important indicator to analyze trends. For non-traditional output types (e.g. research data, research software), usage statistics are often the only indicator available, while the implementation of data citation standards lags behind.

How to integrate with it

For EOSC providers two integration workflows are offered in order to participate to the service:

  • Push Workflow, whereas the provider is registered to the OpenAIRE UsageCounts service after onboarding to the OpenAIRE Provide. The provider is offered with tracking software for server side tracking and usage events are tracked and logged in real time. Information is transferred offline to OpenAIRE’s DBs for statistical analysis and Usage statistics are deployed for human (OpenAIRE’s Portal) and machine (Sushi-Lite API) consumption endpoints.
  • Pull Workflow, supports Dathering of consolidated statistics reports from aggregation services, using protocols such as SUSHI-Lite. As before Usage statistics are stored in OpenAIRE's DB for statistical analysis via OpenAIRE’s Portal or Sushi-Lite API endpoints.

Accounting for Research Products high-level service architecture

High-level Service Architecture - Accounting for Research Products

Dependencies/Prerequisites

Onboarding via EOSC Provider's portal and via OpenAIRE Provider's dashboard are required to register to the service.

Where to ask assistance

All requests and inquiries could be submitted at: 

Further information and documentation available at:

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