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Patricia Shields, Nandhini Rangarajan, and Lewis Stewart child protection might possibly be correlated with that event. One might argue that Texas State University generates most of these downloads internally. This is unlikely because only 3,032 downloads are recorded for Texas State University’s domain (URL removed), accounting for under 2% of the total. Further, there have been almost 20,000 downloads from 136 countries (as of November 30, 2009). Countries that most often download the ARPs are India (2,664), United Kingdom (2,384), Canada (1,666), Australia (1,065), and Malaysia (937). In addition, other domains generating significant MPA downloads include Google Scholar, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Given the public good value of these papers and their importance as a way to promote the university and program, the MPA Program took steps to enhance the overall download numbers. The faculty approached the Legislative Reference Library of Texas (www.lrl.state.tx.us/genInfo/publicPolicy.cfm), which was happy to post the Texas State Applied Research project sites to the library’s website. The program also posted ARP references and links to the “For Further Reading” sections of Wikipedia. These entries are added when time permits and when there is a clearly related term in Wikipedia. About 20% of ARPs written in the last 5 years have links to Wikipedia. In addition, there is now a critical mass of papers that share topics or geographic location (water policy, succession planning, job satisfaction, economic development, environmental policy, and the Cities of San Marcos and Austin). To lead interested readers to these works, students are encouraged to cite other ARPs that have a similar topic, method, or geographic location. This download activity generates a bonus. A wider audience uses student papers. As shown in Table 3, these ARPs are cited in journal articles and policy foundation reports and used by government agencies. Reports no longer trapped in paper are making their way to a larger policy audience. They are now a clear service to the world at large. We expect the high number of downloads to continue given that they often show up on the first page of a Google search even with a few simple keywords. Berkeley Press provides easy access to download data for all papers. Hence it is possible to identify the factors that explain download activity, which is the subject of this article. Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress 6 ), Texas State University’s electronic file repository for final ARP reports, supplies Texas State University’s MPA Applied Research Project usage data. Usage reports from bepress transaction logs readily identify how often individual ARPs are downloaded as full-text PDF files. This paper explores the factors that contribute to Texas State University ARP downloads. 162 Journal of Public Affairs Education
Table 2. Top 10 Most Downloaded Applied Research Projectss Title, Year, Name URL First Published Total Downloads* 1. Zarate, Emilia. (2007). Child protection in Texas: Caseworker attitudes and http://ecommons.txstate. 6/4/07 3640 perceptions towards CPS services. edu/arp/210 7/17/07 2910 http://ecommons.txstate. edu/arp/241 2. McClenney, Mary Ann. (1992). A study of the relationship between absenteeism and job satisfaction, certain personal characteristics, and situational factors for employees in a public agency. 1/24/06 2510 http://ecommons.txstate. edu/arp/5 3. Kessler, Bryce. (2005). Perceptions of Texas Parks & Wildlife game wardens about effectiveness of law enforcement programs. 6/4/07 2361 http://ecommons.txstate. edu/arp/209 4. Roberts, Michael. (2007). Applying the andragogical model of adult learning: A case study of the Texas comptroller’s Fiscal Management Division. 2/8/06 1875 http://ecommons.txstate. edu/arp/43 5. Anderson, Rebecca. (2003). A description of domestic partner benefit policies of state, county, and city governments. 2/28/06 1854 http://ecommons.txstate. edu/arp/68 6. Ellis, Dee. (2001). Carcass disposal issues in recent disasters, accepted methods, and suggested plan to mitigate future events. Sharing Student Research with the World 2/8/06 1758 http://ecommons.txstate. edu/arp/34 7. Palacios, Kolette. (2003). Developing a comprehensive needs assessment model for implementation in continuing education. 12/14/06 1630 http://ecommons.txstate. edu/arp/173 8. Greenberg, Michael. (1997). Sports facilities and metropolitan economic development: The impact of professional sports facilities on sales tax revenue in metropolitan statistical areas. 1/5/07 1549 http://ecommons.txstate. edu/arp/185 9. Whitmore, Melissa. (2006). Success through succession: Implementing succession planning at the Texas Department of Insurance. 2/8/06 1523 http://ecommons.txstate. edu/arp/30 10. Kelm, Charles. (2005). Exploring the effects of specialized sexual behavior treatment of recidivism. *Full-text downloads for January 1, 2006, through March 19, 2010, for applied research projects Journal of Public Affairs Education 163
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