Usage statistics and demonstrator services

<!--HTML--><p align="justify">An understanding of the use of repositories and their contents is clearly desirable for authors and repository managers alike, as well as those who are analysing the state of scholarly communications. A number of individual initiatives have produced statistics of variious kinds for individual repositories, but the real challenge is to produce statistics that can be collected and compared transparently on a global scale. This presentation details the steps to be taken to address the issues to attain this capability <br><br> <a href="http://cern.ch/oai5/presenters_profiles.html#CARR" target="_blank">View Les Carr's biography</a></p> </p>