The DOAJ has recently been celebrating 20 years of service. As part of their celebrations they have been interviewing editors from some of the journals…
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by Rebecca Wojturska, Open Access Publishing Officer, The University of Edinburgh On Tuesday 27th June, the OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association) and DOAJ (Directory…
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Edinburgh Research Explorer • www.research.ed.ac.uk • ERdata: Jan. – June 2019
The first six-months of 2019, as now seems inevitable, have proved to be the busiest six-months in Edinburgh Research Explorer’s brief history, with 543,152 downloads. This is not only the first time that the half-a-million milestone has been breached within such a short period, but represents a 35% increase on the previous best. As the chart below indicates, this rate of growth is unprecedented following a full 6-months:
This report aims to offer an overview of the last six-months of download activity on Edinburgh Research Explorer. The data generated through the IRUS-UK download statistics portal is somewhat limited, it won’t tell us much about the users, in terms of who is downloading what, but it will offer up a few broad clues. This report will investigate those clues under the following headings:
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