"My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard” : or, How Our Open-Access Repository Drives Traffic to UNL Scholarship … Including (Potentially) Yours

Authors

Paul Royster, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

ORCID IDs

Paul Royster

Date of this Version

10-23-2013

Citation

Presented at Open Access Week workshop sponsored by University of Nebraska Graduate Students Association, October 23, 2013, Love Library, Lincoln, NE

Abstract

Where do visitors go on unl.edu?

5 examples of heavily downloaded files from the DigitalCommons

Why are they so popular ?

1. Full text, 2. Free, 3. Authoritative, 4. Portable, 5. Loved by Google

“It's better than yours, Damn right it's better than yours,”

It’s free access . . . but is it open access?

How do I get my papers into the repository ? (Faculty & Students)