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 2021 statistics from Deep Blue (the University of Michigan’s repository of scholarly work). The following data includes all uploaded works as of December 2021 and all downloads that occurred in 2021.
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 (215 and 247, respectively), meaning they had more of a chance to earn downloads. However, works from Computer Science and the Anesthesia Practice programs have seen substantial numbers of downloads compared to their number of overall works in the collection (14 and 60, respectively).
There was a little rearrangement in the top ten downloaded works compared to last year, though Daren Weist's thesis remained the most downloaded.
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 openly accessible. The following data includes all uploaded works as of December 2021 and all retrievals that occurred in 2021. The usage data we have from Proquest differs from the data we get from Deep Blue, but we've given as close a comparison as possible.
| Country/Area | Retrievals |
|---|---|
| United States | 3,270 |
| Australia | 255 |
| China | 222 |
| Canada | 204 |
| United Kingdom | 155 |
| Turkey | 108 |
| Malaysia | 97 |
| Singapore | 97 |
| Egypt | 92 |
| Thailand | 77 |
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