April top downloads are enclosed. The number of downloads was down this month which was largely due to Easter. We have several new entries and re entries this month and a new top download.
Thanks again for using ORO
Not much change at the top of the table this month, but it’s good to see a bunch of new entries on the second page.
February generally saw fewer downloads due to the short month, with the usual exception of Jan Draper’s book chapter.
January saw a similar level of downloads to December. It was good to see some new entries break into the Top 15, but Jan Draper’s book chapter still reigns supreme. ORO top 15 jan 2013
Congratulations to Professor Jan Draper of the Faculty of Health & Social Care who secured the top spot overall in 2012 with The relationship between research question and research design (2004), which was downloaded 471 times.
The full top 15 is here: top 15 downloads 2012
Here are the top 15 PDF downloads from ORO for December: ORO-downloads-Dec-2012.
As we expected, a quieter month overall, with no new entries into the top 15.
Ruth
November top downloads are here ORO-Downloads-Nov-2012
A massive 149 downloads for our current top paper kept off a new entry from IET, which in any normal month would have hit the top spot with an impressive 56 downloads.
Thanks for using ORO.
Chris
Late this month due to ongoing work on the verification of items deposited in the REF cycle.
October downloads are now available ORO-downloads-Oct-2012. It’s a remarkably consistent Top 15.
Just to contrast those figures with some repository level metrics. Over the same period we had 46,349 visitors, 99,626 page views and 9,723 downloads of papers. They are great figures!
Chris
Last week for the first time the OU Library Services in conjunction with the PVC (Research, Scholarship and Quality) Office ran five lunchtime events from the 22nd to the 26th October for Open Access Week. There were 17 speakers over the week ranging from academics. librarians, publishers and open access advocates and the events were attended by over 90 people from across the Open University. Discussion during the week ranged from will article procesing charges be higher in the arts and humanities than the sciences, the Research Council UK policy on open access, how Open University Open Access journals are managed, experiences of publishing in open access journals, how publishers are moving forward with open access, the challenges and opportunities open access is presenting Higher Education Institutions with. We would like to thank all those speakers and participants for making the week so interesting in engaging and are looking forward to seeing how open access publishing evolves over the next few years.
Nicola Dowson & Chris Biggs Open Access Publishing: An Introduction
Ian Rowlands Open Access: University of Leicester Experience
Ian Bannerman Open Access Taylor and Francis
Wim van der Stelt Open Access Springer
Rupert Gatti OA monograph publishing
Zdenek Zdrahal CORE Presentation
Petr Knoth Aggregating, enriching and reusing Open Access
Markus Muhr The European Library: Connecting Knowledge
Astrid Wissenburg Open Access Publishing challenges and opportunities for HEIs
Fred Friend Open Access: potential benefits, worldwide hope, UK uncertainty
Do you publish in academic journals and monographs? Would you like to know more about the ways in which open access publishing could impact how and where you publish?
Library Services is hosting a series of lunchtime events (22nd-26th October) in conjunction with the Office of the PVC (Research, Scholarship and Quality) to explore this rapidly evolving area as part of Open Access Week. Full details are available from this webpage.
If you would like to attend any of the sessions, please email library-open-access@open.ac.uk indicating the date of the session(s) and any special dietary requirements.