Scholars' Mine Summary of the Annual Report from July 2015 - June 2016

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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

scholarsmine.mst.edu

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

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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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