<div dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*apologies for cross-posting*</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hi all,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Title:</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Bot Shields: Activate! Ensuring Reliable Repository Download Statistics</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Date/time:</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Register here:</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3730808255839224578" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3730808255839224578</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> In this webinar, we will share our ongoing and multifaceted approach to identifying and filtering activity from robot sources for Digital Commons repositories.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We hope you can join us!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Regards,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ann</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Ann Connolly<div>Director of Outreach and Scholarly Communication</div><div>bepress</div><div><a href="mailto:aconnolly@bepress.com" target="_blank">aconnolly@bepress.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>(510) 665-1200 x174</div><div><a href="http://www.bepress.com" target="_blank">www.bepress.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>bepress: the frontier of scholarly publishing since 1999</div><div><br></div><div>Check out IR success stories on the DC Telegraph at <a href="http://blog.digitalcommons.bepress.com" target="_blank">blog.digitalcommons.bepress.com</a></div></div></div></div></div>
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