Repository content doubles in a year
We have now passed another milestone, with over 2000 items in our open access repository Research@StAndrews:FullText.
Our 2000th item turned out to be a little bit of Scottish History, with a thesis originally requested through the British Library’s EThOS service:
Annette M. Smith (1975) The Forfeited Estates Papers, 1745: a study of the work of the Commissioners for the Forfeited Annexed Estates, 1755-1784, with particular reference to their contribution to the development of communications in Scotland in the eighteenth century
This adds to a thriving digital collection of Scottish History theses. Our most viewed item in this collection is Reading the Scottish Enlightenment : libraries, readers and intellectual culture in provincial Scotland c.1750-c.1820 which has been downloaded nearly 100 times.
Our project to deposit retrospective theses has also added to our varied collections including English, Mediaeval History, Modern Languages, Divinity, International Relations and Biology.
The deposit of research publications also continues through our Research Information System PURE, with a recent batch of Physics papers and outputs from our Biomedical Sciences Research Complex.
We look forward to doubling our open access content again next year, or perhaps aiming for 5000!