Digital Commons @ Andrews University Annual Report 2020-2021
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Andrews University Digital Commons @ Andrews University Library Administration and Marketing James White Library 5-21-2021 Digital Commons @ Andrews University Annual Report 2020-2021 Terry Dwain Robertson Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/library-admin Part of the Scholarly Communication Commons Digital Commons @ Andrews University Annual Report 2020-2021 Table of Contents About the Digital Commons @ Andrews University Third Millionth Download Global Impact Serving the SDA World Church “Letting Your Light Shine”: Faculty Scholarship in SelectedWorks Over 1000 Faculty Publications Added Repository Staff Terry Robertson, Repository Librarian, Coordinator Felipe Tan, Repository Librarian for Dissertations and Theses Rozenia Marinho, Staff Assistant for campus communications documents Jonathan Burt, Graduate Assistant for retrospective Seminary publications About the Digital Commons @ Andrews University DESCRIPTION The Digital Commons @ Andrews University is a service of the Learn Deeply -- as students learn deeply, the Digital Commons Andrews University libraries. Research and creative scholarship @ Andrews University provides the platform to showcase their included here has been selected and deposited by the individual work. This opportunity is a recognized motivation for enhanced university departments and centers on campus. effort to achieve excellence in their work. As modeled by their professors, engaging in research and creative scholarship OUR MISSION becomes a delightful experience as they grow in knowledge and competence. The Andrews University Mission Statement proclaims, Engage Globally -- the Digital Commons @ Andrews University Andrews University, a distinctive Seventh-day Adventist optimizes search engine visibility, with the result that this institution, transforms its students by educating them to seek research and creative scholarship reaches a global readership. knowledge and affirm faith in order to change the world. Because of Andrews University’s internationally diverse faculty and student body, this platform privileges research that impacts the global community. The Digital Commons @ Andrews University engages the pursuit of this mission by OUR SERVICES • providing both the faculty and the students of Andrews University a voice in global conversations through their • Institutional repository research and creative scholarship • School and department profiles • telling the Andrews University story through the digital • Faculty author profiles archiving of campus publications, public documents, and • eJournal publishing images • eBook publishing • sharing the unique teaching resources of Andrews • eConference publishing University for the benefit of the global community. • Research data hosting Andrews University has identified four core strengths, and the • Copyright and rights management Digital Commons @ Andrews University supports these in the • Digitization Services following ways: SUMMARY OF BENEFITS Live Wholly -- the theme of this plank is to highlight the value of nurturing not only the intellectual aspects of our lives, but also • Supports the mission and the core strengths of Andrews the social, physical, and spiritual. The Digital Commons @ University Andrews University has aggregated the research completed by • Provides authors with readership statistics through an faculty and students that both supports and informs this theme. Author Dashboard Furthermore, the wholistic virtue of generous service • Provides a platform for showcasing student research empowered by the Digital Commons @ Andrews University collectively and by department elevates research and creative scholarship from a momentary personal achievement to a contribution that continues to • Engages in information literacy formation across the benefit others. curriculum • Provides enhanced global visibility for faculty and student Explore Intentionally -- the core idea is to provide an scholars through search engine optimization environment where students can discover their vocation. The • Provides reports and statistics to support administrative Digital Commons @ Andrews University provides a snapshot of strategic decision making on academic programs what vocation means in the lives of faculty and students who • Showcases the strengths of programs in marketing Andrews are actively engaged in research and creative scholarship; and University to prospective students and faculty then provides a place to give expression to that vocation • Positions Andrews University as modeling responsible and through research and creative scholarship. generous service to the world Third Millionth Download from Digital Commons at Andrews Milestone achieved in eight months March 13, 2020, marked the two millionth download from the journals available in the DC. Digital Commons @ Andrews University. (DC) The DC seeks to provide both the faculty and students of In May, 2020, for the first time, downloads jumped to just shy Andrews with a voice in global conversations through their of 130,000. Since then through May 2021, the average research and creative scholarship. Additionally, it aids in telling downloads per month has been 126,734. Downloads peaked in the Andrews story through the digital archiving of campus October at 167,785. publications, public documents and images. The DC also helps This remarkable increase from the previous year of 39% in share the unique teaching resources of Andrews for the benefit average downloads per month says something wonderful about of the global community. our students and our faculty and the relevance of our scholarly work in the global marketplace. The DC also provides a record of faculty scholarship. This scholarship record is organized by year on a department page DC is an innovative institutional repository provided by the and by discipline in an Expert Gallery. Each current faculty University’s libraries. Research and creative scholarship member with citations has a personal SelectedWorks page included on the website have been selected and deposited by featuring their contributions. In addition, the DC allows all its individuals and University departments and centers. DC was authors to see where in the world their research has been launched June 1, 2015, and since that time more than 17,516 downloaded and what institutions have accessed it. items have been archived in the collection, including 1,533 The DC includes a full suite of publishing tools. From books to during FY 2020-2021. Just over 50 percent of the downloads are journals to media can be hosted. Access to a limited number of from student scholarship, and 38 percent are from the six out of print book titles has given these titles a new life and fresh impact. The publishing of video for educational purposes is now being piloted. The possibilities are endless. Global Impact In 2020-21, 1,538,032 downloads were recorded from 231 countries. Over two thirds of readers accessed Andrews University content from someplace outside of North America. Note the relative strength of the downloads for student research. Andrews University exists to support its students and provide them with an education that can “change the world.” These download counts are evidence of the quality of education we provide. A different measure provides additional support for the impact of Student Research. The Metadata Page Hits statistic measures how often users open a page with a list of documents. For example, the Dissertations page, https:// digitalcommons.andrews.edu/ dissertations/ Again, 40% of the visitors to the Digital Commons @ Andrews University view Student Research pages. Serving the SDA World Church Downloads from SDA The Digital Commons @ Andrews University identifies the institution or organizations where Institutions downloads originate. In 2020-21, downloads Andrews University 3571 originated from 18,641 different entities. Seventh-Day Adventist Church (SPD) Limited 1836 Educational institutions accounted for 31% of Walla Walla University 1060 downloads, and commercial organizations Bugema University - Main Campus 491 another 57%. Organizations, government, the Southern Adventist University 427 military and libraries are represented in the Theologische Hochschule Friedensau 388 balance. University of East Africa Baraton 345 Spicer Memorial college 250 The SDA institutions listed in the table were Union College 200 derived from a survey of institutions in the listing. Rusangu University 177 It is likely there are other SDA institutions that Avondale College limited 156 have comparable download counts, but whose Pacific Union College 144 South Asia Pacific Sda 129 internet access is through a commercial entity Oakwood College Library 123 with a different name. Southwestern Adventist University 123 This table provides evidence of the service of Adventist University of Africa 102 Andrews University and James White Library to Corporacion Universitaria Adventista 89 the global SDA church. Instituicao Adventista de Educacao e Assistencia S 84 Northern Luzon Adventist College Inc 81 With 3571 downloads from Andrews University, it Adventist Health Systems. 66 also evident that the Digital Commons @ Caribbean Union College 63 Andrews University is effectively serving its own Inst. Advent. Sul Bras. Educ. Assit. Social 62 local community. General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists 61 Central Philippine Adventist College 51 Kettering Medical Center 42 Southern Mindanao Missionary Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in 37 Burman