Milestones in the Digital Commons Community: Spring & Summer 2013

Many congratulations to those in our Digital Commons community who’ve recently been recognized or announced significant milestones! Please click on the links below to read more:

Movers & Shakers 2013 from the LibraryJournal

• Florida State University’s Micah Vandergrift from DigiNole Commons: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/03/people/movers-shakers-2013/micah-vandegrift-movers-shakers-2013-community-builders/

American Association of Law Libraries Innovation in Technology Award, 2013:

• Yale Law School’s Julian Aiken from eYLS: http://www.aallnet.org/main-menu/Member-Resources/AALLawards/award-iit.html

Ontario University Registrars’ Association (OURA) Innovation Award, 2012-13

• University of Western Ontario’s Scholarship@Western: http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/stories/2013/March/electronic_thesis_project_take_top_honours.html

Eight thousand items & 500,000 downloads:

• Iowa State University’s Digital Repository @ Iowa State University: http://drisu.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/double-milestone-8000-items-and-500000-downloads/

One-hundred thousand downloads:

• Boston College Law Review at Boston College Law: http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/newsevents/2011/bclr_milestone.html

One million downloads:

• Edith Cowan University’s Research Online http://www.ecu.edu.au/centres/library-services/news-and-events/2013/05/research-online-hits-1-million-downloads
• University of Nevada – Las Vegas’s Digital Scholarship@UNLV: http://www.library.unlv.edu/, https://www.facebook.com/unlvlib/posts/446187885455691
• Marquette Law School’s Marquette Law Scholarly Commons http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2013/05/20/marquette-law-repository-reaches-over-1-million-downloads-worldwide/

Four million downloads:

• Purdue University’s Purdue e-Pubs: http://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/2013/03/18/purdue-e-pubs-reaches-4-million-download-milestone/

Have you recently announced a milestone?  Let us know!  Send us an e-mail at outreach@bepress.com.