This readme.txt file was generated on 2016-07-20 by Patrick OBrien
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GENERAL INFORMATION
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Title of Dataset: Google Search Console data set supporting study on Undercounting File Downloads from Institutional Repositories


File Information:  Filename: irDataUnderCount.zip
Short description:  Contains Google Search Console Click data of every URL that received 1 or more clicks for all 4 study participants:
LoboVault - University of New Mexico - https://repository.unm.edu 
MacSphere - McMaster University - https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca
ScholarWorks - Montana State University – http://scholarworks.montana.edu
USpace - University of Utah – http://uspace.utah.edu


If data set includes multiple files related to one another, include relationship here: n/a

Principal Investigator Contact Information
Name:  Patrick OBrien
Institution: Montana State University Library
Address: P.O. Box 173320, Centennial Mall, Bozeman, MT 59717-3320
Email: patrick.obrien4@montana.edu


Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
Name: Kenning Arlitsch
Institution: Montana State University Library
Address: P.O. Box 173320, Centennial Mall, Bozeman, MT 59717-3320
Email: Kenning.Arlitsch@montana.edu


Date of data collection (single date, range, or approximate date): 2016-01-05 to 2016-05-17


Geographic location of data collection: city, state, zip code, country
Bozeman, Montana (MT), 59717, USA
Salt Lake City, Utah (UT),, USA
Albuquerque, New Mexico (NM), 87131, USA
Hamilton, Ontario (ON), L8S 4L8, Canada

Date files were created: 2016-07-20


Are there multiple versions of the dataset? no


Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data:
The authors wish to express their gratitude to the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which funded this research via the following Grant:
Arlitsch, K., OBrien, P., Kyrillidou, M., Clark, J. A., Young, S. W. H., Mixter, J., … Stewart, C. (2014). Measuring Up: Assessing Accuracy of Reported Use and Impact of Digital Repositories (Funded grant proposal) (pp. 1–10). Institute of Museum and Library Services. Retrieved from http://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/handle/1/8924


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METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
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Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: 
google Search Console API Search Analytics: query @ https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/v3/searchanalytics/query

Methods for processing the data: Python

Instrument-specific information needed to interpret the data:  n/a


Standards and calibration information, if appropriate: n/a


Environmental/experimental conditions: n/a


Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data: n/a


Codes or symbols used to note or characterize low quality/questionable outliers that people should be aware of: n/a
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People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission:
Patrick OBrien, Semantic Web Research Director, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT USA
Kenning Arlitsch, Dean of the Library, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT USA
Leila Sterman, Scholarly Communication Librarian, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT USA
Jeff Mixter, Software Engineer, OCLC Research, Dublin, OH USA
Jonathan Wheeler, Data Curation Librarian, University of New Mexico, NM USA
Susan Borda, Digital Technologies Development Librarian, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT USA


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DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION
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Parameters and/or variables used in the data set
Name:   File
Description:  Domain of IR
Units of measurement:  Text

Name: searchType
Description: Google search type 
Units of measurement: Text

Name: date
Description: Date of Google Search Console record 
Units of measurement: YYYY-MM-DD

Name: device
Description: Device type used to access the URL 
Units of measurement: Text

Name: page
Description: URL that received 1 or more "Clicks" from a Google Search Property 
Units of measurement: Text

Name: clicks
Description: Total number of daily "Clicks" a URL received by device by searchType  
Units of measurement: count


Codes or symbols used to record missing data
Code/symbol: n/a
Definition: n/a


Other specialized formats or abbreviations used: n/a


Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package:
gaEvents.zip
gaItemSummaryPageViews.zip
gaSourceSessions.zip
gaTotalPageViews.zip
irDataUnderCountCiteContentDownloads.zip

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SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION 
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Licenses/restrictions placed on the data:
Recommended: CC0. To the extent possible under law, the author has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work. This work is published from the United States.


Other licensing options are available at https://creativecommons.org/


Links to publications that cite or use the data:


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Links/relationships to ancillary data sets:


Was data derived from another source?
List source(s):  Google Analytics


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CREDITS
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