ERIC Number: EJ1216425
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 18
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Promoting Institutional Repositories via Visualizations: A Change-Point Study
New Review of Academic Librarianship, v25 n1 p95-112 2019
This article examines whether implementing visualizations on an institutional repository webpage increases traffic on the site. Two methods for creating visualizations to attract faculty and student interest were employed. The first is a map displaying usage of institutional repository content from around the world. This map uses Tableau software to display Google Analytics data. The second method is a text mining tool allowing users to generate word clouds from dissertation and thesis abstracts according to discipline and year of publication. The word cloud uses R programing language, the Shiny software package, and a text mining package called tm. Change in the number of institutional repository website sessions was analyzed through change-point analysis.
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Academic Libraries, Web Sites, Visual Aids, Maps, Access to Information, Use Studies
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Alabama
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