University of Edinburgh Research Publications Service

Simon Bains

Head of Digital Library

Information Services

IT Futures 2009

S a m p le u sa g e s ta tis tic s f ro m E R A

Top 25 countries downloading content from the Edinburgh Research Archive during 2008

United States,

246475United Kingdom,

40865

Australia, 15520

China, 15299

Iran, 11847 Other, 54445

India, 7946Germany, 5914

Indonesia, 4298

Canada, 3998

France, 3402

Portugal, 2851

Italy, 2576

Spain, 2516

Turkey, 2261 Malaysia, 2165

Netherlands, 1972

Japan, 1907

Vietnam,1797

Singapore, 1761

South Africa,

1639

Taiwan, 1628

Brazil, 1534

Hong Kong,

1463

Sweden, 1446

Korea, Republic

of, 1371

Benefits

• Effective research management for the REF• Reduced overheads for Schools and Colleges • Extensive reporting tools • Website publication list generation tool• Long-term archiving and persistent links• Highly ranked exposure to search engines• Meeting the needs of funders’ mandates

• Ideas and knowledge derived from publicly-funded research must be made available and accessible for public use

• Personally deposit, or otherwise ensure the deposit of, a copy of any resultant articles published in journals or conference proceedings, in an appropriate repository

• rps-help@ed.ac.uk

• www.ed.ac.uk/is (Research support)

• simon.bains@ed.ac.uk

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