During the month of May, CUNY Academic Works grew by 238 new items and 48,708 new downloads!

The five most downloaded works in May include:

1. Media Representation of Asian Americans and Asian Native New Yorkers’ Hybrid Persona
   Series: Dissertations and Theses at the CUNY Graduate Center
2. Training a New Trick Using No-Reward markers: Effects on Dogs’ Performance and Stress Behaviors
   Series: Student Theses at Hunter College
3. The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences
   Series: Publications and Research at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
4. New York City Drunk Driving After Uber
   Series: Publications and Research at the CUNY Graduate Center
5. Birthing, Blackness, and the Body: Black Midwives and Experiential Continuities of Institutional Racism
   Series: Dissertations and Theses at the CUNY Graduate Center

Please note that, with one exception, May’s top downloads were all authored by CUNY students! This is no surprise. Students’ unpublished dissertations and theses have a higher per item download count over any other type of content. As of this date, nine schools collect dissertations and theses in CUNY Academic Works: Baruch College, City College of New York, College of Staten Island, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, CUNY School of Public Health, CUNY Graduate Center, Hunter College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Queens College. Some of these schools started collections as part of a longstanding requirement (with an opt-out option), and others started their collections because a student requested it. Watch this space for more information about students works in CUNY Academic Works. In the meantime, you may be interested in reading Roxanne Shirazi’s recent post on the GC Library’s blog, Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2016-17.