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April top downloads

ctb44 — Wed, 08 May 2013 11:23:14 +0000

ORO-top-15-Apr-2013

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

ORO Top 15 downloads for March 2013

Ruth — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:36:44 +0000

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.

ORO top 15 Mar 2013

ORO Top 15 downloads in February 2013

Ruth — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:19:42 +0000

February generally saw fewer downloads due to the short month, with the usual exception of Jan Draper’s book chapter.

ORO top 15 Feb 2013

Most downloaded from ORO – January 2013

Ruth — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:50:25 +0000

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

Most downloaded from ORO – the top 15 for 2012

Ruth — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:59:12 +0000

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

Most Downloaded December 2012

Ruth — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:24:58 +0000

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

ctb44 — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:34:16 +0000

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

October top downloads

ctb44 — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:58:29 +0000

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

Open Access Week Roundup

Nicola Dowson — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:53:50 +0000

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

Open Access Week 2012 at The Open University

ctb44 — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:45:07 +0000

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.