Digital Commons 2021-2022 Annual Report Centennial Library Cedarville University
2021-2022 ANNUAL REORT 1 DigitalCommons@Cedarville A service of the Centennial Library 2021-2022 Annual Report This report covers activity from July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022. Prepared by: Greg Martin Digital Commons Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What’s Inside In Brief 3 By the Numbers 5 Measures of Use 6 Visitor Profile 10 Global Impact 11 Journal Publishing 12 Additional Highlights 13 Looking Ahead 14
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2021-2022 ANNUAL REORT 3 In Brief DigitalCommons@Cedarville is the online institutional repository of the scholarship, creative activity, and historical record of the faculty, staff, and students of the university. It is designed to accomplish these goals: • Collect the university’s scholarly and creative content in a single, accessible, discoverable, open, and organized location • Provide global visibility for the university’s scholarly and creative content through search engine optimization • Preserve not only published research, but also other institutional assets, including unpublished papers, teaching materials, images, sound and audio files, historical documents, and much more • Provide a showcase for the institution’s scholarly and creative content that can be shared with the institution’s various constituencies, including prospective faculty and staff, prospective students, alumni, and donors • Provide support for student endeavors by publishing and providing access to theses, capstone projects, student journals, and other student publications and creative activity
2021-2022 ANNUAL REORT 4 2021-2022 Staff Gregory Martin, Digital Commons Director Tricia Clark, Digital Services Specialist Lanie Clauson, Library Collection Services Student Assistant Alayna Drollinger, Library Collection Services Student Assistant Andrew Glessner, Library Collection Services Student Assistant Ana Tapia, Library Collection Services Student Assistant
2021-2022 ANNUAL REORT 5 By the Numbers 588,333 Full-text downloads, July 1, 2021-June 30, 2022 2,589,242 Cumulative full-text downloads through June 30, 2022 59,617 Items in DigitalCommons@Cedarville as of June 30, 2022 281 Number of faculty SelectedWorks pages as of June 30, 2022
2021-2022 ANNUAL REORT 6 By the Numbers (PlumX Snapshot) 46,956 Number of times DigitalCommons@Cedarville works have been cited by others 284,645 Number of Facebook references 16,216 Number of Social Media Likes 1,306 Number of Tweets
2021-2022 ANNUAL REORT 7 Measures of Use Submissions The total number of items in the repository increased 9.7% during the last academic year, primarily due to two major projects: digitization of records for the athletics department and the addition of photographs from the University Archives. 2018-2019 2019-2020 2020-2021 2021-2022 6,819 additions 6,750 additions 8,186 additions 5,783 additions Faculty SelectedWorks Pages The number of faculty SelectedWorks pages increased 2.2% during the 2021-2022 academic year. 2018-2019 2019-2020 2020-2021 2021-2022 261 273 275 281 Downloads Per Item The download count reflects only the number of full-text downloads. Many items in our repository do not have full-text documents, including journal articles that we link to from the repository and our many linked media files. Users who visit our site to access these materials unfortunately do not generate a download. The downloads-per-item is an average over everything in the repository whether it has a full-text document or not. 2018-2019 2019-2020 2020-2021 2021-2022 28.6 32.82 37.17 43.43
2021-2022 ANNUAL REORT 8 Downloads: Top Ten Collections, 2021-2022 Collection Number Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism 73,743 The Research and Scholarship Symposium (2013-2019) 42,650 Musical Offerings 41,427 CedarEthics Online 28,586 Master of Education Research Theses 23,040 History and Government Faculty Publications 22,560 The Cedarville Herald 19,940 The Idea of an Essay 18,619 CedarEthics: A Journal of Critical Thinking in Bioethics 14,569 Channels: Where Disciplines Meet 14,003 Metadata Page Hits: Top Ten Collections, 2021-2022 Collection Number The Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism 20,050 Musical Offerings 8,859 The Research and Scholarship Symposium (2013-2019) 7,861 Channels: Where Disciplines Meet 5,649 Bioethics in Faith and Practice 4,541 Faculty Books 4,115 Alumni Book Gallery 3,057 Yearbooks 3,041 News Releases 2,867 The Strobridge Image Gallery 2,820 (The apparent discrepancy between the numbers in these two tables is explained by the fact that most users who access our full-text documents do so directly through a Google search, rather than accessing them from our metadata pages.)
2021-2022 ANNUAL REORT 9 Top 15 Downloaded Items, 2021-2022 Title Collection Downloads Human Nature and the Christian History and Government Faculty Publications 18,038 Project MKULTRA and the Search for Mind Control: Clandestine Use of LSD Within the CIA History Capstone Papers 6,332 A Descriptive Correlational Study Examining the Relationship of Emergency Department Contextual Factors and Transfer Interval to an Intermediate Unit Master of Science in Nursing Theses 6,320 Virtue Ethics and Abortion CedarEthics Online 6,131 Do Creation and Flood Myths Found World Wide Have a Common Origin? Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism 5,980 A Christian Ethical Perspective on Surrogacy Bioethics in Faith and Practice 5,954 Analysis of the Paperman Idea of an Essay 5,425 Christian Education in the 21st Century: Renewing a Transformational Vision Master of Education Theses 5,414 Reflections on Feminist Views of Abortion and Motherhood CedarEthics Online 3,674 The Successes and Failures of the Battle of Mogadishu and Its Effects on U.S. Foreign Policy Channels” Where Disciplines Meet 4,400 A Critique of the Pre-Creation Chaos Gap Theory Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism 4,270 The Case for the Septuagint’s Chronology in Genesis 5 and 11 Proceedings of the International Conference on Creatinism 4,146 Is It Acceptable for Juveniles to be Tried as Adults? Criminal Justice Capstone Papers 4,100 Music: Its Expressive Power and Moral Significance Musical Offerings 4,000 Euthyphro’s Dilemma and Divine Command Ethics CedarEthics Online 3,993
2021-2022 ANNUAL REORT 10 22,172 32,079 38,898 45,648 53,834 59,617 0 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000 70,000 7/1/2017 7/1/2018 7/1/2019 7/1/2020 7/1/2021 7/1/2022 Number of Items 597,261 847,955 1,112,400 1,497,968 2,000,809 2,589,242 0 500,000 1,000,000 1,500,000 2,000,000 2,500,000 3,000,000 7/1/2017 7/1/2018 7/1/2019 7/1/2020 7/1/2021 7/1/2022 Total Downloads
2021-2022 ANNUAL REORT 11 236 249 261 273 275 281 210 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 7/1/2017 7/1/2018 7/1/2019 7/1/2020 7/1/2021 7/1/2022 Number of Selected Works Pages 512,409 699,923 953,384 1,172,526 1,530,321 2,213,684 0 500,000 1,000,000 1,500,000 2,000,000 2,500,000 7/1/2017 7/1/2018 7/1/2019 7/1/2020 7/1/2021 7/1/2022 Flipping Book Page Views
2021-2022 ANNUAL REORT 12 Visitor Profile DigitalCommons@cCedarville uses Google Analytics to track site visits and search activity. While Google does not capture full-text downloads, the information it provides creates a useful demographic profile of DigitalCommons@Cedarville users. From July 1, 2021-June 30, 2022 (excludes flipping books): Repository visits: 158,971 (27,529 more than 2020-2021) Unique repository visitors: 127,039 (23,715 more than 2020-2021) Repository page views: 320,950 (27,815 more than 2020-2021) New vs. Returning Visitors DigitalCommons@Cedarville continues to attract primarily new users, increasing the impact of student and faculty work globally. 78.22% 21.78% New Returning Visitors on the Go This year saw a significant decrease in mobile use, the Apple iPhone being used by 52.6% of mobile users, and a corresponding increase in the use of desktop computers to access the repository, while the use of tablet devices continued to decrease. 0.00% 10.00% 20.00% 30.00% 40.00% 50.00% 60.00% 70.00% 80.00% 2016-2017 2017-2018 7/1/2019 7/1/2020 7/1/2021 7/1/2022 Devices Series1 Series2 Series3
2021-2022 ANNUAL REORT 13 Global Impact By June 30, 2022, content in the repository had been downloaded by users in 225 countries. The majority of the downloads were in the United States; the top ten foreign locations were: United Kingdom Canada Philippines China Australia India Germany Indonesia Brazil Malaysia
2021-2022 ANNUAL REORT 14 Journal Publishing – Now Hosting Nine Journals Downloads from July 1, 2021-June 30, 2022, followed by total downloads: Bioethics in Faith and Practice (ceased publication) – 11,875 / 30,750 CedarEthics – student journal (ceased publication) – 14,569 / 40,710 Cedarville Review – student literary and arts magazine – 4,574 / 18,979 Channels: Where Disciplines Meet – undergraduate research journal – 14,003 / 48,842 Excerpts in Pharmacy Research Journal – peer-reviewed (ceased publication) –558 / 3,417 Musical Offerings – peer-reviewed student music history journal – 41,427 / 223,360 Resuscitating Paideia – peer-reviewed English journal (ceased publication) – 518 / 4,896 The Idea of an Essay – essays selected by the composition faculty – 18,619 / 29,249 Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism – 73,743 / 123,093
2021-2022 ANNUAL REORT 15 Additional Highlights of 2021-2022 Once again, DigitalCommons@Cedarville’s event structure was utilized to facilitate the Research and Scholarship Symposium. Students and faculty submitted their proposals through the Digital Commons, and the review process built into the system was used by the organizing committee to evaluate each proposal. Major projects this year included the digitization of reel-to-reel and audiocassette tapes of the chapel addresses of Dr. James T. Jeremiah and Dr. Paul H. Dixon and preparing accompanying transcripts, digitization of Public Relations office photographs from the 1950s-1970s, managing the loss of the Ensemble media service by downloading files and then uploading them to the Digital Commons, and participating in beta testing of bepress’s new Exhibit Solution. There are now 12 academic programs archiving capstone projects in the Digital Commons. In conjunction with the Department of Communication’s Professional Writing and Information Design program, the Digital Commons launched a new interdisciplinary journal for undergraduate research by Cedarville students titled Channels: Where Disciplines Meet in the fall of 2016. We published two issues this academic year, Fall 2021 and Spring 2022. The 48 articles that have been published so far have been downloaded over 48,800 times. A new journal, Education Insights, was added this year, but has not yet published its first issue. Cedrus Press published one book this year, A Christian Guide to Body Stewardship, Diet, and Exercise by Dr. David Peterson, Dr. Jeremy Kimble, and Dr. Trent Rogers.
2021-2022 ANNUAL REORT 16 Looking Ahead A major focus in the coming year will be the orientation and training of a new Digital Commons Director, necessitated by the retirement of the founding repository Director. As the repository and publishing services continue to grow, it is necessary to create policies and standardized processes that ensure efficiency and consistent quality. Accordingly, a primary focus in the coming year will again be the completion of our Policies and Procedures Manual (a LibGuide) and job descriptions for the various roles required for the publishing process. A plan for digitizing items from the University Archives needs to be discussed and finalized. This will again be a major effort during the 2022-2023 academic year. The rapid developments taking place in institutional repositories make it difficult to anticipate the opportunities and challenges that we will encounter over the coming year. Nevertheless, the Digital Commons staff remains committed to maintaining an excellent and innovative repository that meets the needs of the faculty, staff, and students of Cedarville University.
2021-2022 ANNUAL REORT 17 Special acknowledgement and thanks to Isaac Gilman, Scholarly Communications & Research Services Librarian, Pacific University Libraries, who prepared the Scholarly Communication Services Annual Report 2012-2013, used as a model for this report.
Cedarville University Contact Greg Martin Digital Commons Director 937-766-3461 dc@cedarville.edu Copyright 2022, Cedarville University This report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, with the exception of the Cedarville University seal, for which all rights are reserved by Cedarville University. Cedarville University Library 251 N. Main Street Cedarville, OH 45314
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