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While reviewing my usual data on usage, discoverability, visibility, etc. I was motivated to look at the usage impact experienced by institutions which have retired their repo in favour of the Pure Portal product. I am shocked at what I found. /Thread/
All data is open from @IRUSNEWS but I haven't labelled these charts to avoid instiutional embarrassment. I am also acutely aware that it isn't always those who are best qualified to make decisions about these systems that ultimately make the decision to retire a repo.
Such decisions are often made in a fact-free vacuum by groups far removed from the coalface. This is an important caveat to make. Note too that whilst data are open you need to know which institutions to look at, so some knowledge of which systems instiutions are using is needed.
