It's time for our yearly usage report of UM-Flint graduate students' digitized final capstone projects, theses, and dissertations. Let’s take a look at some of fiscal year 2023 (July 2022 - June 2023) statistics from Deep Blue (the University of Michigan’s repository of scholarly work).
The next graph shows the comparative percentages of downloads according to each program. Liberal Studies and Public Administration are the oldest programs and have more works associated with their programs (219 and 247, respectively), meaning they had more of a chance to earn downloads. However, works from the Anesthesia Practice, Biology, Education, Nursing, and Public Health programs all had more then 1000 downloads, while each having less than 100 total associated works.
Now for the retrieval data we have from Proquest's Dissertations & Theses Global (PDTG), which is one of the largest databases of graduate works in the world. PDTG is a database that many colleges and universities subscribe to and most of the content is not open access. The usage data we have from Proquest differs from the data we get from Deep Blue (mainly that it is counted by calendar year rather than fiscal), but we've given as close a comparison as possible.
| Country/Area | Retrievals |
|---|---|
| United States | 2,252 |
| China | 575 |
| Canada | 219 |
| United Kingdom | 200 |
| Australia | 189 |
| Turkey | 71 |
| Malaysia | 59 |
| Taiwan | 56 |
| Singapore | 51 |
| South Korea | 46 |
If you have any questions about depositing your graduate work please see our FAQ or contact Liz Svoboda at esvoboda@umich.edu. We also recorded a recent webinar on the depositing process.
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