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Digital Commons Reaches One Millionth Download
August 29, 2016
Digital Commons@Georgia Southern, an open access institutional repository managed and provided by the Zach S. Henderson Library, reached one million downloads over the summer.
The most downloaded collection is Electronic Theses and Dissertations at 602,000 downloads. This collection not only provides the most current theses and dissertations, but digitized copies of those dating back to 1964. The collection includes the most downloaded item, “Scouting for a Tomboy: Gender-Bending in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird” with more than 18,000 downloads.
The International Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and University Honors Programs Theses have also produced an impressive amount of downloads with over 154,000 and over 44,000, respectively.
Downloads derive from more than 220 countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, India, Canada, China and Malaysia.
Digital Commons@Georgia Southern’s purpose is to archive and disseminate the intellectual and creative output of the University’s faculty, administration, staff and students. Contributions for Digital Commons@Georgia Southern come from all over campus and include faculty publications and presentations, datasets, theses/dissertations, university policies, newsletters/magazines, videos and photographs.
The repository does not simply store documents. It also houses conference and journal websites with a built-in peer-review process system and SelectedWorks profiles that compile faculty information, scholarship and creative works.
Since its launch in Fall 2013, Digital Commons@Georgia Southern has grown tremendously in its scope and size. It consists of more than 14,000 entries, 300 SelectedWorks profiles, 22 conferences and eight journals.
Almost half of the collection is from the field of education, but also includes a significant amount of works from the fields of medicine and health sciences and social and behavioral sciences.
To learn more or contribute content to Digital Commons@Georgia Southern, email digitalcommons@georgiasouthern.edu.
