10 Years, 10 Million Downloads

DigitalCommons@ILR
 

Launched just over a decade ago, DigitalCommons@ILR provides free online access to more than 21,000 resources for executives, managers, workers, researchers and students. It holds scholarship produced by faculty and researchers relevant to the ILR School community and workplace researchers and practitioners internationally.

Covering all aspects of work and the workplace, DigitalCommons@ILR documents are freely available with no access restrictions. Domestic and international researchers download items on everything from workplace subjects such as creativity or teamwork to specialized questions such as the implications of specific labor laws and rulings. The site’s real-time readership map showing download locations illustrates the school’s global reach and mission of “Advancing the World of Work.”

The diverse holdings of DigitalCommons@ILR also include thousands of collective bargaining agreements, reports and research from partners such as the United Nation’s International Labor Organization and ILR’s many centers and institutes.

Staff from the Martin P. Catherwood Library’s Digital Project Group maintain the repository. “For the last decade, we’ve worked to make DigitalCommons@ILR a great resource for the school, both in terms of strengthening the global reach of its scholarship and supporting the research needs of its community,” said Jim DelRosso, digital projects coordinator.