"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

Document Type

Article

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)