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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.

September top downloads are available here ORO-downloads-Sep-2012

Please find the August top downloads here ORO-downloads-Aug-2012.

Here are thetop downloads for July: ORO-downloads-July-2012.

The highest new entry this month is a journal article that has yet to be formally published.  One advantage of Green Open Access is that it allows new research to be more quickly disseminated, and this clearly is an example of this. 

Thanks again for everyone using ORO.

Chris

I’ve just run the ORO-downloads-June-2012 and the most downloaded paper clocked 38 downloads which is the most we’ve had for a long time and the most I’ve ever recorded since starting 12 months ago. 

I drilled down a bit and found that 19 of the downloads were from The OU.  4 were from New Delhi; 2 from Melbourne, Huntingdon and Singapore and 1 download each from Zurich, Manchester, Dowlais, Patna, Pune, Manila, Chiang Mai, Dar Es Salaam, Ft. Bragg and New York. 

That’s a pretty good global spread!  And is a timely (post Finch) reminder at what a great platform ORO is for making OU research openly accessible.

Chris

May Top Downloads are now available ORO-downloads-May-2012.