Copley Library Annual Report 2022-2023

Copley Library Statistics

Digital USD Draws All Seven Continents Over the past year, Digital USD, the university’s repository of institutional scholarship and resources, surpassed 2 million downloads, with over half a million of them occurring during 2023 alone. Another major milestone for the repository was its representation on all seven continents. For the first time ever, someone in Antarctica downloaded material from Digital USD!

Top Ten Digital Downloads from Digital USD

Downloads (as of June 2023)

Title

Sample Advisory Board Invitation Letter/Email

89,111

India – Āgra – Tombs Inside Taj Mahal

33,448

Leadership Cultural Values of United Arab Emirates – The Case of United Arab Emirates University

23,144

Fourth- and Fifth-Generation Warfare: Technology and Perceptions

21,993

Twelve-tone Serialism: Exploring the Works of Anton Webern

15,237

“Torture the Women”: A Gaze at the Misogynistic Machinery of Scary Cinema

10,082

Dying, Death, and Afterlife from a Buddhist Perspective

9,076

The Hollowness of the Harm Principle

8,814

An Economic Analysis of Domain Name Policy

8,366

Class of 2021 – Undergraduate Programs School of Business / Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering

7,156