Open Access: Knowledge Unlatched Titles Reach Over 1 Million Downloads in 2018

From KU:

Knowledge Unlatched (KU) announces a new record for usage of its Open Access (OA) books. Over 950 titles from the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) have been accessed more than 1 million times by users worldwide in the past 8 months of this year alone. The increase in usage compared to 2017 is significant: On aggregate, KU content has seen 570,000 full-text downloads on the OAPEN platform and a further 490,000 chapter downloads on the JSTOR platform.

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Financed by libraries worldwide, nearly 1,000 titles have already been made available through Knowledge Unlatched, and several hundred titles are added every year.

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