Research blog from RPO

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Research@StAndrews:FullText grows by 60%

St Andrews reasearch repository has grown significantly in the last year, with the number of items it contains increasing by 60% since 2009.

175 theses and 116 research publications were added in 2010, to bring the total content to 783.



Research publications have more than doubled since the University's Research Information System (Pure) was launched in June 2010. 100 journal articles and 16 other items were submitted, bringing the total to 194. Virtually all research publications are available in full text.


In the last year there were over 31,000 visits to Research@StAndrews:FullText from 157 countries.




The top 5 downloaded items in November 2010 were:

Infernal imagery in Anglo-Saxon charters [Thesis]
Retrospective power analysis [Journal article]
WinBUGS for population ecologists: Bayesian modeling using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods [Journal article]
Os vínculos culturais Galicia-Uruguay [Cultural connections between Galicia and Uruguay] [Book]
Lewis, counterfactual analyses of causation, and pre-emption cases [Thesis]