1.5 Million downloads from IRO in 2014!
Iowa Research Online had an impressive 1,506,333 items downloaded in 2014. When all supplemental content is included, this number increases to 1,558,358! IRO currently has 16,209 full text items, 1,521...
View ArticleIRO January 2015 usage
Content in Iowa Research Online was downloaded 131,084 times in January, a 19% increase over January 2015. The items receiving the most use were all theses: Oxidation and reactivity of...
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IRO Highlights for Black History Month
Here are some highlights from our digital collections for black history month. These three books are available as free PDFs online. They were published in the University of Iowa Press Singular Lives...
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Open Access Fund Articles in IRO
Two years ago, the University Libraries and the Provost’s Office launched an Open Access Fund to pay the processing fees related to open access publishing. The fund is meant to encourage the University...
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5 million downloads
We are very excited to have had 5 million downloads in Iowa Research Online! We had 4 million downloads in November, so this last million happened in only about 6 months. Some of this growth is...
View ArticleWorldwide Use of IRO
The publications in Iowa Research Online (IRO) are very widely used. From July 2014–June 2015, the items were downloaded more than 1.5 million times! This map shows the downloads of content from IRO...
View ArticleIRO featured in Open Access Week guest blog posts
The University of Iowa Libraries celebrated Open Access Week Month in a variety of ways, including several guest blog posts from faculty on why they support open access. Of particularly note to us is...
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Whitman, Iowa Review and Dada in Romania
One of the things we do in the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio is support locally published journals. The journals which we publish/host are part of Iowa Research Online. During Open Access...
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Update to Use of Digitized Theses
Last year, we looked at use of our digitized theses. We decided that a bit more than a year had passed so it was time to look at these items again. The collection has grown modestly to 258 theses and...
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Henry A Wallace Collection
The University of Iowa Libraries has thousands of the personal papers of Iowa native Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965). Wallace, the 33rd vice president of the United States, died 50 years ago today (18...
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