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Patricia Shields, Nandhini Rangarajan, and Lewis Stewart through the gateway of an article it has included in its bibliography. Hence: H7: Bibliography size has a positive relationship with the number of full-text downloads for ARPs. Search engine optimizing. ��We expect that referencing ARPs in Wikipedia increases its Web presence and therefore results in more download rates for those ARPs. Hence: H8: Reference in Wikipedia positively affects the number of full-text downloads for ARPs. ��Citations. Applied Research Projects not only cite other literature, they themselves are cited. As mentioned earlier, journal articles, dissertations, public policy foundation reports, and other ARPs cite them. As mentioned earlier, Google Scholar counts the number of citations any given piece of scholarship has, and the more citations a piece has, the sooner the article will appear in Google Scholar. Hence, one would expect: H9: ARPs that are cited by other scholarly works are more likely to be downloaded. H10: Links to other works positively affect the number of full-text downloads for ARPs. Data and Methods The MPA program at Texas State University began in 1973 and, as of August 2009, there have been 806 graduates, each of whom wrote an ARP. In 2003, the MPA program began collecting the ARPs electronically. In January of 2006, MPA Applied Research Projects became part of the new open access digital repository initiated at Texas State University. Over the next several semesters, new ARPs were posted to the digital repository site as well as ARPs from as far back as 1978. Some were already in electronic form; others were scanned and posted. Although not all ARPs are posted, approximately 90% of new student work is. This study used 290 ARPs posted as of August 18, 2009. Information about the variables and measures are presented in Table 4. The Berkeley Press keeps track of downloads for each entry in its repository on a daily basis. Download data is made available to repository managers in Excel files. The Texas State University MPA Program director is the repository manager for the ARPs. On August 19, 2009, the director requested full-text download data for 290 ARPs for the period January 1, 2006, through August 18, 2009. These download numbers became the dependent variable in this study. Using content analysis, the 290 ARPs were analyzed to determine whether they dealt with state government, were explanatory, and used survey research. 168 Journal of Public Affairs Education
Analysts also determined the number of bibliographic entries in each Applied Research Project. The Texas State University MPA Program has a link to awardwinning ARPs on its website. This link (http://uweb.txstate.edu/~ps07/awards. pdf) was used to determine whether a paper was an award winner. The URL for each ARP abstract contains a number that indicates the order in which it was posted. For example, the URL for ARP 1 (2007) ends with 210. This number was assigned to estimate the length of time the paper was posted. The larger the number, the less time the paper was available on the Web to be downloaded. Table 4. Operationalization of the Hypotheses Sharing Student Research with the World Dependent Variable Measurement Data Source Number of Downloads Actual Number of Downloads as of 8/18/09 The Berkeley Electronic Press State government 1 + 1 = state; 0 = other ARP content analysis Explanatory purpose 2 + 1 = explanatory; 0 = other ARP content analysis Survey research method 3 + 1 = survey; 0 = other ARP content analysis Award winner 4 + 1 = award; 0 = no award Award-winning ARP website Length of time on Web 5 – serial number; lower numbers indicate a longer time on the Web ARP website Two-part title 6 + 1 = two-part; 0 = one-part ARP content analysis Bibliography size 7 + Number of entries in bibliography ARP content analysis Wikipedia reference 8 + 1 = yes; 0 = no Wikipedia Google Scholar citations 9 + Number of citations by electronic scholarship Google Scholar AltaVista-identified links 10 + Number of links AltaVista When ARPs are posted to Wikipedia, their URL is included. Because the URL is unique to the ARP, it was used in the Wikipedia search function to determine whether an ARP was posted to Wikipedia. The URL was also used in the Google Scholar search engine. The AltaVista search engine was used to identify links to Texas State University’s repository to particular Texas State Journal of Public Affairs Education 169
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JPAE VOLUME 18 NUMBER 1 JOURNAL OF
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FROM THE EDITOR In the symposium in
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Leading by Example: Modeling Global
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