It’s November 30–the last day of the month, when I fetch usage statistics for my websites (as always, omitting about 18.5 hours of that last day), so here’s an update on GOAJ–just the total numbers this time:
- Paperbacks: Two copies of GOAJ itself sold. So far, none of the others (I recommend the one pictured here).
- Dataset: 952 views (irrelevant), 439 downloads (relevant).
- GOAJ: 40 Lulu copies, 8,480* copies from my site: total 8,520.
- Subjects: 17 Lulu copies, 194* other copies, 211 total.
- Countries: 8 Lulu copies, 1,018* other copies, 1,026 total.
- C&I: To date, 1,139* copies of the excerpted GOAJ version (16.5) and 3,925* copies of “APCLand and OAWorld” (16.4.)
As a sidenote, the most downloaded issue of Cites & Insights for the period since October 2012** is issue 14.4, with 15,680 copies, half again as many as the second most downloaded. The primary essay is The Sad Case of Jeffrey Beall. Unfortunately, more recent and probably more important related commentaries have not reached anywhere that audience…and it’s clear that many librarians and even more scholars take Beall’s word (typically offered without a shred of evidence) as gospel. [Look to the third essay in the hyperlinked issue–the one with “Trust Me” in the title.]
**The most downloaded C&I will probably always be the Library 2,0 and “Library 2.0” essay, with nearly 34,000 downloads before I added a speed bump.
Coming soon–probably next week, possibly late this week: Gray Open Access Journals 2012-2016: Gold OA Beyond DOAJ, which will appear as Cites & Insights 17.1 and may or may not be available as a slender paperback.
*Note added 12/12/16: These numbers do not include November 13-30, 2016; downloads during that period, almost certainly in the high hundreds for GOAJ, are simply missing.
