One OA journal, more than 100,000 downloads in a single month
The OA Journal of Postgraduate Medicine has reached the milestone of 100,000 downloads in a single month. It had 112,218 in November. From the announcement:
These downloads are from the journal’s primary website, apart from this website, the full text of the journal is also available from [the] Bioline International, OAI-complaint repository at the University of Toronto and from a number of secondary aggregating agencies such as Thomson Gale, EBSCO Publishing and ProQuest. Thus, the actual downloads per month are much higher.
Open access sources, DOAJ, PubMed and Wikipedia were amongst the top five referrers (except search engines) for the journal’s website. Over 270 institutions utilize the LinkOut facilities from PubMed to access the journal.
source: One OA journal, more than 100,000 downloads in a single month
