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Concentrating on downloads…
09/02/2010: As most people will know, up until now, I have regularly produced two monthly top 10 lists for ORO: the most-viewed journal articles and the most-viewed non-journal articles. However, I’ve [...]

Is the “request copy” button good for OA?
03/02/2010: An oft-quoted statistic is that 63% of journals endorse immediate open access (OA) by allowing the Accepted Manuscrips of peer-reviewed papers to be deposited in institutional repositories. [...]

One quarter of ORO’s content openly accessible to all
22/01/2010: Last week, we reached what I believe to be a significant milestone with ORO: 25% of the research articles ORO contains are openly accessible to all. This compares to 15% just one and a half years [...]

Top ten most-viewed articles (December 2009), including a new “Visitor Index”
15/01/2010: Included in this month’s most-viewed article stats is a new measure – something I’ve called the “Visitor Index”. This is something I’ve developed to [...]

Where are ORO visitors coming from, and how?
17/12/2009: When I’m out and about advocating the use of ORO to broaden access to your research, one common question I get asked is “how do people find stuff in ORO?” Well, it’s true [...]

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