The IOE Institutional Repository includes full texts which are, whenever possible, made available for download.  There are 940 such full texts at the moment out of a total of 6000 items in the repository.  This October has been a record month for downloads – 13,171.  This is both a very dramatic increase on previous months  and is also, I think,  a relatively high total for what is still a small institutional repository.

Below are the ten most downloaded items for October 2010.  The article in the number  one position is unusual in two respects – it is published in a journal to which the Library only has a print subscription (the journal is of course available in digital form to all IOE staff and students through the Senate House Library) and it is by 13 authors. I don’t know of any simple way of discovering what the IOE co/multiple authorship rate is, but I don’t remember seeing anything like this number of authors recently. Is it an IOE  record?