Annual report summary 2016-2017

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SCHOLARS’ MINE

Annual Report from July 2016 - June 2017

Providing global access to the digital, scholarly and cultural resources created by our campus community supporting RESEARCH inspiring creative THINKERS raising

scholarsmine.mst.edu

VISIBILITY encouraging INTERACTIONS

Supporting RESEARCH • • • •

Our Successes

Inspiring creative THINKERS

47% increase in meta-data pages viewed by users 58% increase in documents downloaded by users 48% of downloads originate from other educational institutions engaged in teaching and research 42% of downloads originate from commercial institutions engaged in research and product development

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Providing global access to the research product of our faculty and students Publishing S&T’S Peer to Peer as a cross-disciplinary peer-reviewed and open access undergraduate student research journal, produced by students in S&T’s Research and Writing program.

Encouraging the artistic expression of our students through the Student Art in the Library Digital Exhibitions.

Supporting creative educational assignments such as the pod-casts created by Exposition and Argumentation students.

Raising VISIBILITY

Encouraging INTERACTIONS

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36% increase in global readership 42% increase in regional readership 45% increase in works posted to Scholars’ Mine

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Building on-line faculty author profiles for our tenured and tenure-track faculty to enable other researchers to locate them by research interests and increase conversation between researchers and our faculty Providing social networking features in Scholars’ Mine to encourage the sharing of research produced on our campus.

Metadata Page Hits

30,000

25,000

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10,000

5,000

FYE 2016

Quarter 1 16,096

Quarter 2 19,038

FYE 2017

26,363

25,976

Total Page Hits FYE 2017 - 74,443 Total Page Hits FYE 2016 - 109,151 47% Increase FYE 2016

FYE 2017

Quarter 3 18,936

Quarter 4 20,373

29,458

27,354

Downloads by Quarter

250,000

200,000

150,000

100,000

50,000

FYE 2016

Quarter 1 80,450

Quarter 2 110,127

FYE 2017

150,648

192,758

Total Downloads FYE 2017 - 759,509 Total Downloads FYE 2016 - 481,121 58% Increase FYE 2016

FYE 2017

Quarter 3 138,927

Quarter 4 151,617

209,838

206,265

Works Posted by Type for FYE 2017 Total Posted 6,218 (45% Increase from 2016) 7 , 0%

135 , 2%

258 , 4%

248 , 4%

13 , 0%

2,334 , 38%

3,223 , 52%

Books

ETDs

Missouri University of Science and Technology Curtis Laws Wilson Library Attn: Scholarly Communications Librarian 400 W. 14th. Street Rolla, MO 65409-4233 (573) 341-4221 scholarsmine@mst.edu

Events

Images

Journals

SelectedWorks

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