As well as reporting on the number of open access uploads to our institutional repository we now have the facility to report on the other end of the spectrum – the number of downloads for each item. Here are the top 10 items downloaded from our research portal so far in 2014:
| Title | School | Jan-14 | Feb-14 | Mar-14 | Apr-14 | May-14 | Total |
| Total | – | 28,229 | 33,418 | 44,437 | 47,864 | 50,092 | 278,667 |
| The past, present and future of China’s automotive industry | Business School | 523 | 633 | 993 | 1199 | 993 | 5796 |
| Youth Crime and Justice | School of Law | 207 | 192 | 272 | 384 | 198 | 2127 |
| The Computer Modelling of Mathematical Reasoning | School of Informatics | 198 | 152 | 267 | 187 | 125 | 1734 |
| An Introduction to Conditional Random Fields | School of Informatics | 66 | 349 | 614 | 656 | 1685 | |
| The double-curvature masonry vaults of Eladio Dieste | Edinburgh College of Art | 126 | 187 | 234 | 187 | 178 | 1342 |
| Liquidity, Business Cycles and Monetary Policy | School of Economics | 59 | 82 | 72 | 78 | 69 | 839 |
| The dynamics of solar PV costs and prices as a challenge for technology forecasting | School of Engineering | 41 | 110 | 164 | 212 | 237 | 835 |
| The Limits to ‘Spin-Off’ | School of Social and Political Science | 389 | 121 | 35 | 17 | 19 | 833 |
| The Adaptive City | Edinburgh College of Art | 69 | 56 | 98 | 125 | 195 | 818 |
It is interesting to note that six of the items are from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, whilst the remaining four items are from the College of Science & Engineering. Records from the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine are surprisingly absent from the top downloads chart. In fact this trend continues if you look at the top 100 downloaded records. I have a pet theory about this which I will follow up in a separate blog post [EDIT – post available here].