Digital Scholarship@UNLV provides contributors of full-text content with monthly reports on the use of their works. These reports are emailed to each author, and the email includes links to access your Author Dashboard. The dashboard provides information on how many downloads the documents have received and where those downloads are occurring (including countries and types of institutions).
In order to fully take advantage of this information, along with other useful information such as metrics, you need to have full-text items in the repository. Find out how to deposit full-text items into Digital Scholarship@UNLV.
The readership report from bepress Digital Commons gives authors a snapshot of the downloads occurring on their works in Digital Scholarship@UNLV. It arrives monthly in your email inbox and provides:
This is an example of the readership report you would receive in your inbox.
The author dashboard provides contributors with a variety of tools to help gauge impact and reach of their works included in Digital Scholarship@UNLV. This information provides a supplement to traditional citations, and along with altmetrics badges, gives additional insight into where and how often the world is discovering your research.
One of the first things you’ll see when you get to your dashboard is a map of downloads.
Authors can add a date filter to select the timeframe of data to show, such as for an annual report.
Additional views of the data include downloads by country and works sorted by download.
