This year, Dudley Knox Library put the focus on access to NPS scholarly content.
Calhoun, the NPS Institutional Archive became the central source for NPS Technical Reports, Theses, Dissertations, Project Reports, Conference papers and Scholarly Journal Articles by the NPS community in 2013.
Why is it important? Content in Calhoun is visible, searchable, and freely available to the scholarly world. Find it with Google!
Calhoun is presented in keeping with President Obama's Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government.
This year we topped 36,000 unique items in Calhoun! Have a look at some of the new content:
It's a win-win! Internet Archive's gain is ..well, ours, too! The library's recent partnership with Internet Archive brought over 18,00 new items to Calhoun in FY 2013. See the final phase of the digitization project in real time:
Faculty Publications, NPS Reports, and NPS Theses and Dissertatons (ETDs) have more than tripled this year!
Calhoun received nearly 55,000 unique visitors in 2013, and "views" from all sources combined topped two million!
Want to know what the top downloads were for the year?
Newly available in Calhoun, the NPS Institutional Archive:
Faculty Publications. Calhoun features thousands of published articles by NPS faculty. Google will get you to them -- or have a look at the Faculty Publications collection.
What did users search for most in Calhoun this year? Take a look at some of the terms that popped up most often in FY2013:
Search Term | Searches |
systems | 12,058 |
analysis | 8884 |
models | 7421 |
study | 4901 |
operations | 4724 |
computing | 3995 |
degree:masters | 3886 |
management | 3811 |
naval | 3753 |
design | 3542 |
navy | 3540 |
research | 3520 |
security | 3495 |
controller | 3480 |
defense | 3040 |
investigations | 2990 |
data | 2800 |
simulator | 2611 |
nps | 2557 |
ships | 2534 |
development | 2429 |
military | 2406 |
applications | 2400 |
acquisition | 2393 |