Library News
Librarian authors’ work is downloaded around the world
Posted on January 29th, 2015
The scholarly impact of The Keep is measured in worldwide downloads.
A university in Lagos, Nigeria. A library in Turapati, India. A cafe in Medan, Indonesia. Along the banks of the Seine, near Notre Dame.
What do these places have in common? They were all locations where the research and scholarship of Booth Library faculty members Todd Bruns, Kirstin Duffin and Steve Brantley were downloaded in the past week.
The Keep, Eastern’s institutional repository, collects the research and scholarship of participating faculty, making it available to scholars around the world. To date over 350,000 downloads of over 37,000 documents have increased EIU’s national and international visibility and worldwide scholarly impact.
As part of the international Digital Commons Network participating EIU faculty regularly appear on monthly “Most Popular Author” Top Ten lists in areas including:
- Scholarly Communication,
- Microbiology,
- Plant Sciences,
- Higher Education,
- Labor Relations,
- Communications Sciences and Disorders,
… and many more
EIU has frequently appeared in the “Most Popular Institution” Top Ten lists in
and others.
In addition to faculty research and creative activity, the keep makes student theses and research available to the world. Many EIU Master’s Theses frequent The Keep’s top downloads lists.
