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FIU Law Library is pleased to report the following scholarly impact achievements made by FIU Law in July 2018.

Our institutional repository, eCollections @ FIU Law Library had 3188 full-text downloads and 17 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works to 1650. Florida International University College of Law scholarship was read by 380 institutions across 114 countries. Here are the details:

The most popular papers were:
Thomas E. Baker
The Impropriety of Expert Witness Testimony on the Law (152 downloads)
http://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_publications/180
Eloisa Rodriguez-Dod
Ashes to Ashes: Comparative Law Regarding Survivors’ Disputes Concerning Cremation and Cremated Remains (58 downloads)
http://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_publications/139 
Eden Sarid
Don’t Be a Drag, Just Be a Queen—How Drag Queens Protect their Intellectual Property without Law (57 downloads)
http://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/lawreview/vol10/iss1/11
The most popular publications were:
Faculty Publications (1629 downloads)
http://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_publications
FIU Law Review (877 downloads)
http://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/lawreview
Ceramic Wares (396 downloads)
http://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/spak-wedgwood-pottery

As part of the dual upload and scholarly impact process utilized by FIU Law Library’s Digital Initiatives Center, we are also increasing our scholarly impact in SSRN. Works in our FIU College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series achieved 281 downloads and 3 papers added. Here are the most downloaded works for July 2018 in SSRN:

Louis N. Schulze
Using Science to Build Better Learners: One School’s Successful Efforts to Raise Its Bar Passage Rates in an Era of Decline – 58 downloads
Abstract ID 2960192
Howard Wasserman
‘Nationwide’ Injunctions are Really ‘Universal’ Injunctions and They Are Never Appropriate – 9 downloads
Abstract ID 3103017
Thomas E. Baker
Constitutional Theory in a Nutshell – 6 downloads
Abstract ID 450740

According to HeinOnline’s Author Profiles, our faculty authors have been cited  ??? times in legal scholarship.

Congratulations to FIU Law!


This report is produced by FIU Law Library’s Digital Initiatives Center. The Digital Initiatives Center digitizes, uploads and disseminates the scholarship of FIU Law through our institutional repository, eCollections @ FIU Law Library, the FIU College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series in SSRN, Selected Works from bepress, and HeinOnline’s Author Profiles.
 

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