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SCHOLARS’ MINE
Annual Report from July 2016 - June 2017
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
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Our Successes
Inspiring creative THINKERS
47% increase in meta-data pages viewed by users 58% increase in documents downloaded by users 48% of downloads originate from other educational institutions engaged in teaching and research 42% of downloads originate from commercial institutions engaged in research and product development
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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 pod-casts created by Exposition and Argumentation students.
Raising VISIBILITY
Encouraging INTERACTIONS
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36% increase in global readership 42% increase in regional readership 45% increase in works posted to Scholars’ Mine
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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.
Metadata Page Hits
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FYE 2016
Quarter 1 16,096
Quarter 2 19,038
FYE 2017
26,363
25,976
Total Page Hits FYE 2017 - 74,443 Total Page Hits FYE 2016 - 109,151 47% Increase FYE 2016
FYE 2017
Quarter 3 18,936
Quarter 4 20,373
29,458
27,354
Downloads by Quarter
250,000
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FYE 2016
Quarter 1 80,450
Quarter 2 110,127
FYE 2017
150,648
192,758
Total Downloads FYE 2017 - 759,509 Total Downloads FYE 2016 - 481,121 58% Increase FYE 2016
FYE 2017
Quarter 3 138,927
Quarter 4 151,617
209,838
206,265
Works Posted by Type for FYE 2017 Total Posted 6,218 (45% Increase from 2016) 7 , 0%
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258 , 4%
248 , 4%
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2,334 , 38%
3,223 , 52%
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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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