Arrow@DIT: Institutional Repository Update 2016

In January 2016,  ARROW@DIT had 83366 full-text downloads and 58 new submissions bringing the total works in the repository to 8962. DIT scholarship was read by 5880 institutions across 193 countries.

The most popular papers were: An Introduction to Taking Off Building Quantities: an Irish Approach (3012 downloads) http://arrow.dit.ie/beschreoth/30 The Effects of Terrorism on the Travel and Tourism Industry (1504 downloads) http://arrow.dit.ie/ijrtp/vol2/iss1/9 Structural Equation Modelling: Guidelines for Determining Model Fit (1398 downloads) http://arrow.dit.ie/buschmanart/2 The most popular categories of  publications were: School of Survey & Construction Management Other Resources (9165 downloads) http://arrow.dit.ie/beschreoth School of Electric and Electronic Engineering Conference papers (2644 downloads) http://arrow.dit.ie/engscheleart School of Food Science & Environmental Health Articles (2360 downloads) http://arrow.dit.ie/schfsehart Digital Commons Network Arrow is part of the Digital Commons Network of Institutional Repositories (456 university repositories) which can now be crossed searched and browsed by subject. They have grouped all of the content of all the repositories into areas of interest and these are called Commons for eg. The Engineering Commons or the Business Commons. Popularity is determined by the number of downloads per author or institution in these areas.

Arrow Readership Maps are live

ARROW, DIT's Institutional Repository is a useful resource for students and researchers. It's a database of publications and research outputs by staff and students of DIT.  All material is free to download provided it is attributed to the author and is for non-commercial use.

 A new feature is now available called live readership maps. These show, in real time, which items are being downloaded and in what part of the world. You can look at the general readership map for Arrow here or more specifically view the College of Sciences and Health map.

There is also a very helpful Research Smarts section which includes bibliometrics FAQS as well as assistance on how to upload/add material to Arrow.