Increasing the Visibility and Impact of Aerospace Engineering

Digital Repository @ Iowa State University

Harrison W. Inefuku Digital Repository Coordinator

10/16/2014

Digital Repository @ Iowa State University http://lib.dr.iastate.edu

An online database containing scholarship by Iowa State faculty, staff and students, including:

• Journal articles and book chapters;

• Conference proceedings and posters;

• Technical reports and white papers;

• Images and multimedia

Traditional Scholarly Publishing Often behind subscription pay walls, presenting barriers for:

• Colleagues at smaller colleges and universities;

• Independent and corporate researchers;

• Researchers in developing countries;

• Students; and • The Public.

Digital Repository • Free, public access to

scholarship;

• Increases visibility and impact of research;

• Only upload publications in accordance with copyright and publisher’s policies

• Include full citation to original publication

What can go up?

Published Version American Institute of Physics

• AIP Conference Proceedings • Applied Physics Letters • Journal of the Acoustical Society

of America American Physical Society

• Physical Review B SPIE

• Proceedings of SPIE

Author’s Manuscript AIAA*

• Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics

Cambridge University Press* • Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Elsevier • Ultrasonics

Springer • Strength of Materials

Benefits • Scholarship available in one

location;

• Download statistics • Monthly download reports via

e-mail • Detailed metrics via Author

Dashboard

• Stable URLs for articles

• Indexed by Google, Google Scholar

• Included in university library catalogs worldwide

SelectedWorks Researcher Profiles • Provide context for your

scholarship

• Highly ranked in search engine results

• Mailing lists and social media buttons enable following and sharing

• Complement personal and departmental websites

http://works.bepress.com/stephen_holland

Journals and Conference Proceedings • Supports full peer-review

workflow

• Custom branding and design

Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/qnde.

Impact

Rank University

1 University of Illinois

2 Purdue University

3 University of Nebraska–Lincoln

4 Ohio State University

5 Texas A&M University

6 Wageningen University

7 University of Wisconsin–Madison

8 Michigan State University

9 Cornell University

10 Pennsylvania State University

• 2,139,790 downloads since April 2012

• 26,772 items; ~80 downloads/item

• Visitors from 208 countries and territories

• 22.5% of visitors are from university campuses (see right)

• Cited in peer-reviewed journals, extension publications and other resources

Top AERE theses and dissertations

Author Title Major Professor Downloads

Nathaniel Knop Thermal analysis of a fireplace using ANSYS Vinay Dayal 3144

Wei Du Dynamic modeling and ascent flight control of Ares-I Crew Launch Vehicle

Bong Wie 1,974

William Lai Characteristics of dielectric elastomers and fabrication of dielectric elastomer actuators for artificial muscle applications

Ashraf F. Bastawrows, Wei Hong 1,669

Elbert Jeyapaul Turbulent flow separation in three-dimensional asymmetric diffusers

Paul A. Durbin 1,666

Travis Grager Experimental study of low Reynolds number flow control devices: dynamic burst control plate and dynamic roughness

Hui Hu, Alric Rothmayer 1,452

The Process 1. E-mail your vita to

digirep@iastate.edu

2. Repository Staff will 1. Check the copyright of your

publications and, when possible, secure permission from your publishers to upload

2. Collect PDFs of your publications and upload, when allowed

3. Contact you for manuscripts of your articles and upload, when allowed

4. Create a SelectedWorks researcher profile for you

Thank you! Harrison W. Inefuku

Digital Repository Coordinator

hinefuku@iastate.edu

Hope Mitchell

Library Associate

hmitchel@iastate.edu

Susan Knippel

Systems Support Specialist

sknippel@iastate.edu