<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">D</div>ASH shows the increasing attraction of digital access to information. <b><font color="#ff0000">In May, the number of downloads was twice the number of items loaned or renewed by Harvard’s libraries, said repository manager Colin Lukens. In the same month, he said, DASH downloads exceeded the number of requests made through HOLLIS, the open-to-all platform for Harvard Library system inquiries.</font></b><br>
<br>“The curve is up,” said Peter Suber, director of the Harvard’s Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC), which administers DASH. That curve will only continue to rise, he said, bringing more global exposure for faculty work to users inside and outside the academy.<br>
<br>“We’re sharing Harvard research with everybody with an Internet connection,” he said, “not just with the people lucky enough to be affiliated with libraries rich enough to subscribe to the journals in which those authors publish.”<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
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</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><b><font color="#0000ff">In May 2014, SUNScholar had 9500 downloads according to our Piwik statistics.</font></b></div>
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