Our project to digitize the legacy collection of UM-Flint’s graduate theses and dissertations has come to its end.

Since our last update, 292 theses were deposited in Deep Blue in  May. They were a mixture of legacy theses (dating from 1980 – 1995) and recent graduates’ work. We are currently in the final stages of record clean-up and author contacting.

Going forward we will continue to deposit newly authored works by our growing number of graduate students.  We will also continue to track the number of Deep Blue downloads.

Deep Blue by the Numbers

Only the download data through April 2018 were available, the following numbers are based on that data.

• 452 theses have been added to Deep Blue from July 2015 to April 2018. (The May 2018 deposit brings the total number of digitized theses to 744).
• 292 of the 452 theses (65%) have been downloaded at least once.
• 46,081 downloads have occurred since July 2015.
• 208 of the 452 theses (46%) are designated as open access.
• 206 of the 208 openly accessible theses (99%) have been downloaded at least once.
• 244 of the 452 theses (54%) are only accessible on UM campuses.
• 86 of the 244 on campus theses (21%) have been downloaded at least once.
• 45,888 of the 46,081 total downloads (99.6%) were for the openly accessible theses.
• 193 of the 46,081 total downloads (0.4%) were for the theses only accessible on UM campuses.

2018 Downloads

 

 

Top 10 Downloaded Theses

Title	Author	Year	Program	Downloads
Comparing Public and Private Prison Systems	Joseph Shannon Gregson	2000	Public Administration	13,866
Faces of Feminism: The Gibson Girl and the Held Flapper in Early Twentieth Century Mass Culture	Raina-Joy Jenifer Palso	2001	Liberal Studies	4079
The Development of a Post Anesthesia Care Unit Patient Quantitative Assessment/Predictive Tool to Manage Post-Operative Health Alterations	Robin E. Cook	2017	Anesthesia	2524
The Cult of True Womanhood: Women of the Mid-nineteenth Century and Their Assigned Roles as Reflected in Contemporary Writing	Laurie Bonventre	2005	Liberal Studies	2114
Fast Food Frenzy: An Examination of the Industry’s Success and Its Toll on America	Michelle Ramirez Buado	2009	Liberal Studies	1757
Hemingway in Turkey:  The Influence of His Turkish Experiences on His Writing	Neriman Kuyucu	2013	Liberal Studies	1440
Acceptability and Appeal of a Web-based Smoking Prevention Intervention for Adolescents	Amy E. Parlove	2003	Health Education	1298
Classification: Absolutism vs Relativism	Darren Weist	2016	Computer Science	1240
Barriers Faced by Nurse Anesthetist Entrepreneurs Wishing to Implement an Office Based Anesthesia Practice	David Mwaura	2017	Anesthesia	932
Shadow Warriors: Navy SEALS and the Rise in American Society	Cory Butzin	2009	Liberal Studies	855

If you have any questions about this project, please contact Liz Svoboda at esvoboda@umflint.edu.

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