Scholars' Mine Annual Report

Scholars' Mine received the CoreTrustSeal in April of 2018

The CoreTrustSeal is a core level certification based on the DSA-WDS Core Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements catalog and procedures. This universal catalog of requirements reflects the core characteristics of trustworthy data repositories. The CoreTrustSeal signifies that Scholars' Mine is a trusted and certified repository for research data.

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On March 26th, 2018 a user in Anantapur, Andhra, Pradesh, India downloaded Aggregate Gradation Optimization -- Literature Search by David N. Richardson the Chancellor's Professor and Associate Professor Emeritus in Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering. Congratulations Dr.  Richardson for being our 2 millionth download! 

• View Dr. Richardson's Work

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18% Increase in

Global Readership

60% Increase in

U.S. Readership

62% Increase in

Regional Readership

90% Increase in

Productivity

Benefits for Our Institution

Supports the institution's research mission

• Increases the exposure of our faculty's scholarship and promotes research opportunities globally
• Provides access to our research in a single location, offering opportunities for branding
• Promotes the accomplishments of our faculty and students to potential employers and students
• Enables collaboration and learning

Manages and preserves the scholarship of the institution

• Aggregates all the institutional research in a single location
• Enables the institution to comply with copyright law and publisher policy
• Ensures preservation, readability and access into the future

Increases the availability of hard-to-access scholarship

• Shares hard-to-access institutional scholarship such as conference presentations, exhibits and performances
• Increases accessibility of institutional technical reports, white papers and student research

Celebrates and preserves campus culture and life

• Serves as a platform for art exhibits and other student activities
• Provides access to yearbooks and other collections of campus activities
• Hosts special collections of materials important to campus history and life

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Scholars' Mine Continues to Rank Highly in the Digital Commons Network

The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

• Works from Scholars' Mine ranked highly in 6 out of 108 engineering disciplines in December 2017. The highly rank disciplines included: petroleum engineering, systems and communications, engineering science and materials, manufacturing, systems engineering, and other engineering.
• Works from Scholars' Mine ranked highly in 3 out of 122 physical sciences and mathematics disciplines in December 2017. The highly ranked disciplines included: artificial intelligence and robotics, geophysics and seismology, and Plasma and Beam Physics.
• Works from Scholars' Mine ranked highly in the scholarly communications discipline of social and behavioral sciences in August 2017.
• Works from Scholars' Mine ranked highly in 3 out of 122 physical sciences and mathematics disciplines in August 2017. The highly ranked disciplines included: chemistry, geology, and physics.
• Works from Scholars' Mine ranked highly in the environmental health discipline of life sciences in August 2017.