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*apologies for cross-posting* Thought this webinar might be of interest to this list-- Hi all, Readership statistics are critical measures of impact. However, distinguishing between computers and human readers of repository content presents a significant technical challenge to the open access community. While some bots are out there are crawling your content to get it indexed in places like Google and other search engines, others are trying to mimic humans and inflate your download counts. At bepress, we've been battling to filter out the nefarious invaders for more than a decade to keep these open access infestation problems away from Digital Commons repositories. We’d like to invite you to a webinar that shares how we ensure the reliability of download counts: Title: Bot Shields: Activate! Ensuring Reliable Repository Download Statistics Date/time: Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3730808255839224578 In this webinar, we will share our ongoing and multifaceted approach to identifying and filtering activity from robot sources for Digital Commons repositories. We hope you can join us! Regards, Ann -- Ann Connolly Director of Outreach and Scholarly Communication bepress [log in to unmask] (510) 665-1200 x174 www.bepress.com bepress: the frontier of scholarly publishing since 1999 Check out IR success stories on the DC Telegraph at blog.digitalcommons.bepress.com