By Erica D McLaren, on 7 December 2011
Quarterly UCL Discovery download statistics are now available by UCL Faculty for the third quarter, 2011.
The statistics can be found via the link on UCL Discovery’s Top 20 downloads page, or by going to the Faculty statistics page.
By Erica D McLaren, on 7 December 2011
The UCL Discovery Top 20 download statistics for November 2011 are available at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/last-month.html.
The 2004 IFS briefing paper ‘The ‘fat tax’: economic incentives to reduce obesity’ continues to generate unprecedented levels of interest with over 2,000 downloads for a second month.
There has also been a surge of interest in the Development Planning Unit literature review ‘Theories and models of the peri-urban interface: a changing conceptual landscape’.
There are various ways to find UCL research output in UCL Discovery. Our latest records can be found via the link on our homepage or via our Twitter feed. You can also use our advanced search options to locate items of interest.
By Erica D McLaren, on 18 November 2011
John Elmes (Times Higher Education) reported yesterday on the increased visibility and potential dissemination of UCL research as a result of adding full text to UCL Discovery and using social networking sites.
The article focuses on the Open Access approach taken by Dr Melissa Terras, UCL Department of Information Studies. By making her past papers freely available in UCL Discovery (subject to copyright permissions) and blogging about each paper, Dr Terras hopes to examine global access and download trends as part of a critical analysis of Open Access.
By Erica D McLaren, on 10 November 2011
Dr Melissa Terras, UCL Department of Information Studies, a keen user of social networking tools, has detailed in her blog the rapid increase in interest in her paper ‘Digital Curiosities: Resource Creation Via Amateur Digitisation’ that resulted in her paper being the paper the fifth most downloaded item in UCL Discovery for October 2011. This paper, only made available on an Open Access basis in UCL Discovery a few weeks ago, has already seen considerable interest on a global scale, with downloads in the USA, UK, Germany , Australia, Canada, Belgium, France, Ireland, The Netherlands, Japan, Spain, Greece, Italy, South Africa, Mexico, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Europe, and the UAE.
By Erica D McLaren, on 10 November 2011
The UCL Discovery Top 20 download statistics for October 2011 are available at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/last-month.html.
Our monthly Top 20 download statistics show a steady increase, from October 2009 in particular, in visitors accessing research made available in UCL Discovery. In 2010 and 2011, our statistics recorded multiple peaks of interest in the 2004 IFS briefing paper ‘The ‘fat tax’: economic incentives to reduce obesity’ often exceeding 1,000 per month. In October 2011, the interest in this paper has surpassed all previous download statistics with over 2,000 downloads.
A new addition to UCL Discovery in October 2011, the 2009 article ‘Digital Curiosities: Resource Creation Via Amateur Digitisation‘ by Dr Terras, generated such interest in two weeks that it entered the Top 20 for October 2011 as the fifth most downloaded paper.
By Erica D McLaren, on 2 November 2011
The UCL Discovery Top 20 download statistics for September 2011 are available at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/last-month.html.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies paper ‘The ‘fat tax’: economic incentives to reduce obesity’ is continuing to be popular, and is the top most downloaded paper this month.
September sees five new items enter the Top 20 downloads. Of these five items, two are new entries from our postgraduate research community; the SSEES 2011 postgraduate conference proceedings: ‘PERPETUAL MOTION? Transformation and Transition in Central and Eastern Europe & Russia. ‘, and a 2009 doctoral thesis ‘Urban entrepreneurialism and creative destruction: a case-study of the urban renewal strategy in the peri-centre of Santiago de Chile, 1990-2005.‘ by Dr Lopez Morales. The other new entrants to the Top 20 downloads include an encyclopedia entry ‘Spatial neglect‘, the British Journal of Nutrition article ‘Age and gender differences in children’s food preferences.‘ and a literature review ‘The LIFE project research review: mapping the landscape, riding a life cycle. ‘.
By Erica D McLaren, on 20 September 2011
In the recent NY Times/ International Herald Tribune article ‘Internet ruffles pricey scholarly journals’ by D. D. Guttenplan, Dr Paul Ayris (Director of UCL Library Services) and Robert Kiley (Head of e-Strategy at London’s Wellcome Library) highlight the significance of the shift towards open-access publishing against a background of increasing publishing and subscription costs, that can restrict access to publicly funded research.
Open Access journals, such as PLoS One, may soon include a new open access journal resulting from a joint venture by the Wellcome Trust, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Max Planck Society.
Distinction is made in the article between Gold Open Access and Green Open Access; the latter discussed with reference to UCL Discovery.
The full article can be found at http://nyti.ms/o6Zn8s.
By Erica D McLaren, on 14 September 2011
The UCL Discovery Top 20 download statistics for August 2011 are available at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/last-month.html.
The 1999 literature review ‘Theories and models of the peri-urban interface: a changing conceptual landscape‘ by German Adell is the most downloaded paper in August 2011.
August sees six new items (for 2011) enter the Top 20 downloads. These items include two UCL theses: ‘The ideological significance of flint in Dynastic Egypt‘ by Jan Kunze, and ‘The revival of high-rise living in the UK and issues of cost and revenue in relation to height‘ by Dr Graves-Brown. The other new entrants to the Top 20 downloads include the ISIS experimental report ‘Proton ordering in Antarctic ice‘, a chapter by Dr Laura Vaughan ‘The spatial form of poverty in Charles Booth’s London‘ and the article ‘China’s cleantech landscape: the renewable energy technology paradox‘ by Dr Federico Caprotti.
By Erica D McLaren, on 19 August 2011
The Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) (NWO), the principal Dutch science funding body for scientific innovation in the Netherlands, has launched a €1 million open access fund to help Dutch scientists establish new open access journals or convert existing journals to open access. This fund is part of a wider open access initiative that started in 2010, when the NWO committed €5 million to encourage open access development. More information is available in English or in Dutch.
This is one of many open access initiatives within Europe. A summary of initiatives by country can be found at the OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) web site.
By Erica D McLaren, on 12 August 2011
The UCL Discovery Top 20 download statistics for July 2011 are available at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/last-month.html.
The WCRF/AICR Expert Report ‘Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective‘, one of the three most downloaded papers since April 2011, is the most downloaded paper in July 2011.
July sees four new items in our Top 20 downloads: the Wellcome Witness paper ‘Public health in the 1980s and 1990s: decline and rise? ‘, the 2009 doctoral thesis on CCTV ‘Effective design, configuration, and use of digital CCTV‘, the 2005 report on crime hotspots ‘Mapping crime: Understanding Hotspots‘, and 2007 Bartlett School of Planning thesis on housing development ‘Lessons from Japan: A comparative study of the market drivers for prefabrication in Japanese and UK private housing development‘.
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