{"id":4065,"date":"2022-01-25T13:58:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T19:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2022-01-25T13:58:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T19:58:19","slug":"university-digital-repository-reaches-milestone-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/2022\/01\/25\/university-digital-repository-reaches-milestone-achievement\/","title":{"rendered":"University digital repository reaches milestone achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"

ACU Library is thrilled to announce the university’s online, open-access digital repository reached a significant milestone with its one-millionth download<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

By means of Digital Commons @ ACU (DC@ACU)<\/b><\/a> Brown Library increases awareness and accessibility of the intellectual output of Abilene Christian University, its students and faculty, and its uniquely-held library and special collections. We preserve and provide access to student and faculty work, such as working papers, published articles, conference papers, presentations, senior theses, graduate theses and dissertations. University Special Collections and Archives utilizes DC@ACU to disseminate uniquely-held or otherwise unavailable archival materials, rare books, and periodicals as well as a range of historic university archives, media, and records.\u00a0 The millionth download came in late December 2021.<\/p>\n

Since its launch in September 2014 DC@ACU has been led by a team headquartered in the Brown Library.\u00a0 Among the earliest collections posted were student theses and dissertations<\/a> and sets of materials from special collections and archives.\u00a0 These two sets remain the most-viewed and most-downloaded.\u00a0 Student theses (575 items) have been downloaded over 385,000 times.\u00a0 Rare print holdings from the Stone-Campbell Movement<\/a>, reflecting the historic faith commitment of ACU, contains almost 25,000 books, periodical issues, photographs, archival material and audio-visual files, have been downloaded over 485,000 times.<\/p>\n

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DC@ACU usage map 2014-2021<\/p><\/div>\n

Add to that faculty work<\/a> from across the university along with open-access scholarly journals<\/a>, and the platform has reached users on every continent except Antartica (one day!).\u00a0 That users from 18,884 institutions in 225 countries have accessed these materials clearly indicate the powerful reach of the platform.\u00a0 Looking back, we can see how the platform was well-established by the end of 2019, just in time to serve user needs in 2020 and 2021 when many people around the world were online more, and have come to expect that research-quality materials can be readily and openly accessible on the web.<\/p>\n

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DC@ACU downloads by month 2014-2021<\/p><\/div>\n

Top ten most-viewed items<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title<\/strong><\/th>\nDownloads<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
The Effect of Anxiety and Depression on College Students\u2019 Academic Performance: Exploring Social Support as a Moderator<\/a><\/td>\n106009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Church Directory and List of Preachers of Churches of Christ<\/a><\/td>\n56014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Ethical Considerations of Physician-assisted Suicide<\/a><\/td>\n35140<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leadership Development In The Christian Church and Churches of Christ In Northeast Nebraska<\/a><\/td>\n11016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From Blonde to Brutal: A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of Legally Blonde and How to Get Away With Murder<\/a><\/td>\n10218<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
List of Preachers of the Churches of Christ<\/a><\/td>\n8148<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ethical Theories and Perspectives on End-of-Life Decisions<\/a><\/td>\n7943<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Preaching for Every Tribe: Preparing Preachers for Africa.<\/a><\/td>\n6758<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
After the Shoe Fits: A Rhetorical Analysis of Four Versions of the Cinderella Narrative<\/a><\/td>\n5584<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
They Went to India: Biographies of Missionaries of the Disciples of Christ<\/a><\/td>\n4976<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
How To Be Part of the Next Million<\/b><\/div>\n
Promoting university faculty and student intellectual, creative, and scholarly work has been a cornerstone of the repository since day one. Submitting your work to ACU’s institutional repository is a great way to increase readership and citations, as well as support the open access movement<\/a>! The ACU Library would love to offer support to faculty that are interested in learning more about how to get their works posted to Digital Commons. The easiest way to have scholarly articles uploaded to Digital Commons is through an automated process utilizing Activity Insight submissions \u2013 learn more about how this process works here<\/a>. To learn more about Digital Commons and how to upload works or see readership statistics, check out this\u00a0Scholarly Communications Support Guide<\/a>. For one-on-one support and questions, please contact Erica Pye, Scholarly Communications Librarian, at exp10a@acu.edu<\/a><\/b>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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