Thursday, March 18, 2010

Impressive statistics on the use of Veterinary material in UP's digital repository

We were thrilled to see that statistics distributed by the Web manager of our Dept of Library Services, Christelle Steyn, indicated that the SA National Veterinary Repository and the Veterinary Science communities of the library’s digital repository UPSpace, were amongst the 5 Communities accessed most from 4 Jan 2010 – 10 March 2010.

See statistics below.

Top 5 Communities accessed:
1. Engineering, Built Environment & Information Technology http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/71
2. Economic & Management Sciences http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/1682
3. Education http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/63
4. South African National Veterinary Repository http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/3809
5. Veterinary Science http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/78

Top 5 Sub-communities accessed:
1. Architecture http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/72
2. Southern African Transport Conferences http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/5201
3. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/8641
4. Research Articles (Jonathan Jansen ) http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/111
5. HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/11004

Monday, March 1, 2010

IVY Academic Search: Veterinary Science and Medicine

We have heard the welcoming news that the Veterinary collections of the University of Pretoria's Open Access Institutional Repository UPSpace, have been added to an open access subject repository of the University of Utrecht: IVY Academic Search: Veterinary Science and Medicine. As they state on their webpage, their mission is to:

"provide the local, national and international veterinary community wih a high-quality academic information search and retrieval system for veterinary research"

This will contribute to the further exposure of our Faculty's research output as well as all other valuable digital veterinary science collections currently part of UPSpace.

One of the advantages of using the University of Utrecht's IVY Academic Search facility is that a central point is provided to search the open access repositories of all participatory Veterinary Institutions worldwide. Search results can be printed, e-mailed, saved or exported to Refworks.

We are proud to contribute to this initiative of the University of Utrecht.