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Annual Report - Scholarly Content

Scholarly Content

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Electronic Resources Highlights

Electronic Resources Highlights

Information in electronic format continues to grow and expand in leaps and bounds. We continued to address and incorporate processes and technologies to keep pace with the evolving electronic landscape and provide 24/7 access to library patrons. Our efforts to collect the right information at the right time in the electronic resource life cycle helped us resolve unanticipated access issues more rapidly. Trends show our work is paying off -- successfully putting content quickly into the hands of patrons -- as we continued to reduce the number of total bug reports and the time it took to resolve issues.   

Scholarly Content - Gifts

Gifts Broaden our Collections

We received numerous gifts for the general collection as well as Special Collections & Archives.  We were particularly delighted to receive and process the substantial research collection of naval historian and scholar, Dr. Ernest Toy (pictured below in his home office).  The Beverly and Ernest Toy collection greatly enriched our offerings from the 18th Century to modern times.

Ernest Toy gift

Other highlights included memorabilia related to NPS alumnus Rear Admiral E.E. Stone and his command, USS Wisconsin (BB 64), as well as the bell and artifacts from USS Monterey (CVL 26), upon which a young LT G.R. Ford and his shipmates survived Typhoon Cobra.  LT Ford later became the 38th President of the United States (the bell is on loan to the Library and NPS from the Navy History and Heritage Command in Washington, DC).

NPS Archive: Calhoun Highlights

NPS Archive: Calhoun Highlights

We added nearly 6,000 items to the NPS Archive: Calhoun, including hundreds of new faculty-authored articles, reports, patents, theses and dissertations. Google Scholar, Internet Archive and other search engines and scholarly repositories link to Calhoun, enabling more than 3 million downloads of NPS' works by viewers from around the world this year.

What was this year's MOST POPULAR item?

New Faculty & Alumni Publications

New Faculty & Alumni Publications

New Faculty and Alumni Publications
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Scholarly Content - User Feedback

User Feedback

"Thanks Calhoun!--wow, such good service!"

- Faculty, Graduate School of Business & Public Policy

"This is going to make my job soooo easy."

- New NPS faculty tasked with reporting on field research developments at NPS

 

"Wow, this [Calhoun] is very nice and very professional.  I didn’t know it exists!  I would like to copy all my publications to my research site!"

- Faculty, National Secuirity Affairs

 

 

Scholarly Content - Facts & Figures

Facts & Figures

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Circulation of Library Materials by Item Type

Circulation of Library Materials by Item Type

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Monitoring our "Trending 20" Representative Eresources

What are our patrons using? We see no clear trends as we monitor a representative sample of our licensed eResources across time. We continue to improve discovery of and access to these resources but usage varies -- driven by current curricular and research needs in any given year. 

Trending 20 Total Successful eJournal Article Requests, FY2014-FY2016

N.B. Adustments made due to irregular usage during FY14.

 

Trending 20 Total Successful eBook Section Requests, FY2014-FY2016

N. B. Adjustments made due to irregular usage during each year.

 

Trending 20 Total Searches, FY2014-FY2016

N.B. Adustments made due to irregular usage during FY14.

Top Ten NPS Archive: Calhoun Downloads

Most-Downloaded items from Calhoun

These items topped the list this year.  Learn more about popular items and downloads in Calhoun.

Top Ten Calhoun Downloads in FY2016  
1 Navy SEALs gone wild: publicity, fame, and the loss of the quiet professional  12,545
2 Numerical experiments in unsteady flows through the use of full Navier-Stokes equations. 12,122
3 An examination of acquisition ethical dilemmas: case studies for ethics training 11,385
4 A deterministic analysis of limit cycle oscillations in recursive digital filters due to quantization 10,081
5 On a Bayesian methodology to the solution of the Naval ASW screen placement problem. 10,018
6 Modeling control in computer simulations 10,009
7 Design investigation for a microstrip phased array antenna for the ORION satellite 9,573
8 "SEA ARCHER" Distributed Aviation Platform 8,348
9 Spreadsheet decision support model for MK 16 underwater breathing apparatus repair parts inventory management 7,778
10 The element of fear in the practice of military leadership 7,061
Scholarly Content - New Content Acquisitions

New Content Acquisitions

Publisher Content
IGI-Global Social Sciences and Online Behavior eBook collection
IGI-Global InfoSci eBooks, eJournals and InfoSci Videos (first video collection acquired!) - information science & technology subject areas
Oxford University Press SIPRI Yearbook Online Access (2010-2015)
Oxford University Press Subject specific titles of eJournal backfiles
SAGE Complete Business & Management eBook collection 2016
SAGE eReference Collection Supplement 2016
Taylor & Francis eJournal archival collections: Strategic Defense & Security Studies, Engineering, Political Science, Business Management, Math, Criminology & Law
Scholarly Content - Academic Course Reserves

Academic Course Reserves

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Top Tens: What are You Using!?

Top Tens: What are You Using!?

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FY16 Top Ten Books

Top Ten Books
1 Systems Engineering and Analysis / Benjamin S. Blanchard
2 Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis / Graham T. Allison
3 Deception in War: The art of the bluff, the value of deceit, and the most thrilling episodes of cunning in military history, from the Trojan horse to the Gulf War / Jon Latimer
4 Strategic Denial and Deception: The twenty-first century challenge / Roy Godson
5

Optimization in Operations Research / Ronald L. Rardin
6 Influence: The psychology of persuasion / Robert B. Cialdini
7 Spreadsheet Modeling & Decision Analysis: A practical introduction to management science / Cliff. T. Ragsdale
8 Essential Readings in Comparative Politics / Patrick H. O’Neil
9 Human Factors in Simple and Complex Systems / Robert W. Proctor
10 The Art of Systems Architecting / Mark W. Maier
FY16 Top 10 DVDs & eJournals
Top Ten eJournals
1 Foreign Affairs
2 Harvard Business Review
3 Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
4 Armed Forces and Society
5 Terrorism and Political Violence
6 International Security
7 International Affairs
8 Journal of Strategic Affairs
9 Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
10 Journal of Peace Research

* Source: SFX, Query 19, Most Popular Journals

Top Ten DVDs
1 The Imitation Game / producer Teddy Schwarzman
2 Bridge of Spies / Dreamworks Pictures
3 American Sniper / Warner Bros. Pictures
4 Shayfeen.com: We’re watching you
5 Breach / Universal Pictures
6 Thirteen Days / Beacon Communications
7 Lions for Lambs / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures
8 The Pentagon Wars / HBO NYC Presents
9 Lone Survivor / Universal Pictures
10 Interstellar / Paramount Pictures
Top Ten Audio Books
Top Ten Playaways (Audio Books)
1 Outliers: The story of success / Malcolm Gladwell
2 Blink: The power of thinking without thinking / Malcolm Gladwell
3 The Tipping Point: How little things can make a big difference / Malcolm Gladwell
4 The Revenge of Geography: What the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate / Robert D. Kaplan
5 The Power of Habit: Why we do what we do in life and business / Charles Duhigg
6 The Peloponnesian War / Donald Kagan
7 On War / Carl von Clausewitz
8 1984 / George Orwell
9 Killing Lincoln: The shocking assassination that changed America forever / Bill O’Reilly
10 A History of the American People / Paul Johnson