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September 25th, 2009

University of Wollogong gets 1 million downloads for Research Online

This is from their press release:

UOW’s open access research repository, Research Online, has reached one million full text article downloads since the site went live in 2006.

Research Online allows anyone to download papers and articles by UOW academics, including student theses and research papers from a wide range of areas.

Manager of Repository Services, Michael Organ said the millionth download is quite a landmark for the university.

“One million downloads is a lot of people accessing our papers,” he said. …

For further information contact Michael Organ, Manager Repository Services, University Library on 4221 3108. http://ro.uow.edu.au

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Jon Jermey Says:
September 26th, 2009 at 5:56 am

That’s WolloNGong, by the way…

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