Library staff are actively collecting research outputs from academic staff (journal articles, books, book chapters, and conference papers) and have begun the process of describing these and uploading them. As they are uploaded these outputs are harvested by internet search engines and become visible to the world via the web.
In the month of April there were 680 visits to the site and 1,597 'pageviews'. 42% of this traffic came direct to the site (i.e by using the URL or a bookmark), 37% came from search engines (primarily Google), and 21% from 'referring' sites (such as the Library home page).
Around two-thirds of the usage is from within Australia but a fifth was from the USA and there was traffic from the UK, Brazil, Malaysia, New Zealand, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, India and Saudi Arabia.
Already individual academics have been contacted by individuals overseas who have discovered their work via the Repository.
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