Our Digital Showcase
SCHOLARS’ MINE
Summary of the Annual Report from July 2015 - June 2016
Providing global access to the digital, scholarly and cultural resources created by our campus community
supporting RESEARCH inspiring creative THINKERS raising
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VISIBILITY encouraging INTERACTIONS
Our Successes Supporting RESEARCH • 27% increase in pages viewed by users • 88% increase in documents downloaded by users • 51% of downloads originate from other educational institutions engaged in teaching and research • 40% of downloads originate from commercial institutions engaged in research and product development
Inspiring creative THINKERS • 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 podcasts created by Exposition and Argumentation students.
Raising VISIBILITY • 27% increase in pages viewed by users • 88% increase in documents downloaded by users • 33% increase in the number of users accessing content
Encouraging INTERACTIONS • 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.
Our Challenge Declining RESOURCES • • • • •
Staff turnover Rising personnel costs Unfilled positions The immediate effect is a 46% decline in works added during this fiscal year The long term effect will be: • Continued declines in productivity • Continued delays in processing new materials • Continued delays in adding faculty profiles • The possibility of additional cuts in resources exists
Users
100,000
93,218
90,000 80,000
33% Increase in users during this fiscal year
70,000 60,000 50,000
43,270
40,000 30,000 20,000 10,000
25,663
24,505
23,688 19,362
20,242
17,727
4,938
0 Qtr1
Qtr 2
Qtr 3
Fiscal Year Ending 2015
Page Views
Total
Downloads
80,000
74,475
70,000
600,000
481,164
500,000
27% Increase in page views during this fiscal year
60,000 50,000 40,000
88% Increase in downloads during this fiscal year
400,000
300,000
34,859
30,000 20,000
Qtr 4
Fiscal Year Ending 2016
200,000 19,047
16,103
16,994
20,380
18,945
100,000
10,933 10,000
100,238
80,459
5,319
151,630
138,938
110,137
62,827 29,947
7,464 -
Qrt 1
Qtr 2
Qtr 3
Fiscal Year Ending 2015
Qtr 4
Total
Qtr1
Qtr 2
Qtr 3
Fiscal Year Ending 2015
Fiscal Year Ending 2016
Qtr 4
Total
Fiscal Year Ending 2016
Readership 600,000 555,639
5% 4%
500,000
78% Increase in readership activity during this fiscal year
400,000
300,000
40%
238,302 200,000
172,010
157,883
100,000
96,562
117,601
51%
129,184 73,760 46,941
Qtr1
Qtr 2 Fiscal Year Ending 2015
Qtr 3 Fiscal Year Ending 2016
Qtr 4
Total
Commercial
Educational
Governmental
Other
• No data was available for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending June 2015, data transfer from our old repository system to our new system occurred in this quarter.
Contact Us •
Add works in Scholars’ Mine
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Workshops, customized classroom assistance and on-line tutorials on copyright, research data management, scholarly publishing and more
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Private consultations on any scholarly communications topic, concern or question
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Assistance with journal or conference publishing
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Digitization of documents including photos, maps, blue prints or other materials
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
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