7 Million Global Downloads: Expanding the Reach & Impact of the University of Northern Iowa

UNI ScholarWorks, UNI’s institutional repository, reached 7 million global downloads on June 2, 2025! The repository showcases the knowledge, creativity, and innovative spirit of UNI. UNI ScholarWorks demonstrates the global reach and impact of campus departments and programs. Works by UNI authors are being used to help solve global societal issues and challenges. The repository contains over 51,000 works and receives over 1.5 million downloads per year. The top downloaded work is a student article, “Factors Affecting Economic Growth in Developing Countries” in Major Themes in Economics, by Parash Upreti, which has over 88,000 downloads. The Graduate Studies page has 3.3 million downloads and the College of Education page has over 2 million downloads. People from all over the world are downloading works in ScholarWorks, including from such remote places as Faroe Islands, Maldives, Baffin Island, and Fiji. The U.S. Department of Education is a regular user. The repository is also accessed by many higher education institutions around the world and numerous state education agencies.