Tell me what I need to know: generating reports from your repository

Institutional Repositories (IR) have been a key component of the Open Access initiative over the last ten
years. They allow the dissemination of an institution's research output and a myriad of exchange protocols
and mechanisms have emerged throughout the years to help with this task. However IR can provide more
information beyond just storing the full-text documents and their attached metadata.
A key use of the information held within the repository is to generate reports on its holdings and usage.
Reports can be used within institutions to help make internal decisions as well as being used to feed external
systems which have strict reporting requirements. A growing number of such systems are being set up by
research councils and by governments to assess the quality of the research that they fund, such as the
Research Outcomes System in the UK and OpenAire in Europe.
We will show that the repository is a key component in making internal and external decisions on an
institution's holdings with the use of reports.