UKnowledge is a digital collection of unique scholarship created by University of Kentucky (UK) faculty, staff, students, departments, research centers, and administration. Read more...

More than 1.5 million publications were downloaded from UKnowledge in the past year by readers all over the world. Use the visualization below to explore readership by country and discipline. 

UKnowledge is the University of Kentucky's institutional repository.  It showcases and provides access to the research and scholarship generated by the UK community.  Its internal structure mirrors the organizational structure of the university.  These links on the UKnowledge homepage introduce you to a variety of scholarly activities at UK:

Items in UKnowledge have been accessed around the world.  This slideshow fills you in on what people have to say about what they have downloaded.

As shown by the download-tracking map above, contents in UKnowledge are easily findable and accessible by anyone around the world. A variety of scholarly and creative materials are available for download via UKnowledge:

• Peer-reviewed publications authored by UK researchers, e.g., Internal medicine faculty publications

• Online journals based at UK, e.g., disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

• Theses and dissertations, e.g., doctoral dissertations

• Graduate capstone reports, e.g., MPA/MPP capstone projects

• Undergraduate honors projects, e.g., Honors Program senior capstone collection

• Research/Technical reports, e.g., Kentucky Transportation Center Research Report

• Proceedings of conferences organized or sponsored by UK, e.g., Defaults in Morphological Theory Conference

• Images, e.g., A Glimpse into Ancient Mexico: Writings of the Aztecs, Mixtec and Maya

• Presentations,e.g., Library presentations

• Books, e.g., University Press of Kentucky monographs

• Research data collected by UK researchers, e.g., Physiology research data

If you have any questions or suggestions for UKnowledge, feel free to contact the UKnowledge staff by e-mail.

UKnowledge tracks the download counts of available materials and refreshes the top 20 downloads every day.  It also shows where the downloads took place on a real-time readership activity map.

A new item is featured on the homepage every day.  If you are curious about what has been made available on UKnowledge, visit this page.  Here are the latest five items added to UKnowledge: