Enlighten, the University’s publications database and open access repository, has recorded its one millionth download of Glasgow research.
Presentation to Stephen Brewster
The one millionth download was a 2004 conference paper by Professor Stephen Brewster entitled “Tactons: structured tactile messages for non-visual information display“. There have been over 12,300 downloads of Professor Brewster’s papers in Enlighten since January 2009.
Susan Ashworth, Deputy Director of Library Services, was delighted to present Professor Brewster with a bottle of champagne and said: “Downloads and access to Enlighten continue to go from strength, demonstrating the importance of making the University’s research freely available”.
A download statistics dashboard has been added to Enlighten which enables staff to see the overall downloads as well as their own download totals or those of their school or College. A similar dashboard has been added to the Glasgow Theses service and there are now over 60,000 theses downloads per month.
Statistics dashboards (and IRStats2)
For those who are interested, our download dashboards use an EPrints add-on called IRStats2 [Institutional Repository Statistics 2 – the successor to… IRStats].
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