During November 2023, the contents of the  WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 22,706 new full-text downloads of the 5,790 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1,557 different institutions across 168 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 608,093.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 7,631 times in November 2023. The most downloaded articles from the  faculty scholarship collection last month are:

During October 2023, the contents of the  WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 20,581 new full-text downloads of the 5,790 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1,454 different institutions across 160 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 585,387.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 5,411 times in October 2023. The most downloaded articles from the  faculty scholarship collection last month are:

In our most recent post on scholarly impact, we focused on downloads of papers in a single issue of our SSRN paper series. To expand upon our previous analysis, we decided to look for trends across multiple issues. Specifically, we looked at how many readers opened the email distribution and how many clicked through from their inbox to the paper posted on SSRN. Some observations:

Publishing smaller, more frequent issues to capture audiences throughout the academic year.

During September 2023, the contents of the  WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 14,551 new full-text downloads of the 5,775 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 1173 different institutions across 141 different countries and territories. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 574,852.

Law faculty scholarship was downloaded a total of 3,870 times in September 2023. The most downloaded articles from the  faculty scholarship collection last month are:

This semester, we have been curious as to the impact of promotion of our faculty scholarship, specifically our institution’s SSRN paper series. Our inquiry extended to how broadly a work is promoted, distributed, and how descriptive is its metadata via SSRN.  We typically distribute issues of our paper series multiple times throughout an academic year.  Some observations:

Downloads of works with tiles that include a case name increased by 21% in the week after distribution. No additional promotion efforts were undertaken during that time frame, for this example.