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Digital Commons@Georgia Southern reaches two million downloads
March 26, 2018
Digital Commons@Georgia Southern, an open-access digital repository managed and provided by Georgia Southern University Libraries, reached 2 million downloads this February.
The repository collects, archives and disseminates the intellectual and creative output of the University’s faculty, staff, students and community partners.
Digital Commons hosts contributions from across each campus and the community, including University documents and publications, faculty and student research, conferences, journals, research data, news and more. It also houses conference and journal websites with a built-in peer-review 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 30,000 entries, more than 470 SelectedWorks profiles, 25 conferences and nine journals. Downloads originate from more than 230 countries.
The most popular collection is “Electronic Theses and Dissertations,” which has been downloaded more than 1 million times. The most widely-read journal is the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning with more than 319,000 downloads. The most popular new collection is the complete digital collection of The George-Anne with more than 51,000 downloads.
