OAPEN has recently sent us the access statistics for the last year. OAPEN is a repository for open access books. All our books are listed there, in addition to our OMP platform.
It is interesting to see in how far one or the other platform is used, and how the differences could be explained. The raw data are given below.
OMP pdf downloads 2016
| The future of dialects | 16137 |
| Grammatical theory | 7081 |
| New directions in corpus-based translation studies | 3798 |
| Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen | 2981 |
| The Alor-Pantar languages: History and typology | 2546 |
| Natural causes of language | 2332 |
| The empirical base of linguistics | 2197 |
| Roots of language | 2066 |
| Advances in the study of Siouan languages and linguistics | 1795 |
| Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen² | 1717 |
| Linguistic variation, identity construction and cognition | 1431 |
| Thoughts on grammaticalization | 1397 |
| Adjective attribution | 1291 |
| The evolution of grounded spatial language | 1216 |
| A grammar of Yakkha | 1192 |
| Eyetracking and Applied Linguistics | 1125 |
| A grammar of Palula | 1057 |
| The Talking Heads experiment | 941 |
| Syntax und Valenz | 933 |
| The evolution of case grammar | 889 |
| Die Sprachwissenschaft | 836 |
| A grammar of Pite Saami | 763 |
| Language strategies for the domain of colour | 729 |
| How mobile robots can self-organise a vocabulary | 712 |
| A grammar of Mauwake | 651 |
| Prosodic detail in Neapolitan Italian | 605 |
| Grammaticalization in the North | 568 |
| A typology of marked-S languages | 501 |
OAPEN pdf downloads 2016
| A grammar of Pite Saami | 2438 |
| New directions in corpus-based translation studies | 729 |
| Roots of language | 554 |
| The empirical base of linguistics | 527 |
| Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen | 506 |
| Linguistic variation, identity construction and cognition | 275 |
| Thoughts on grammaticalization | 269 |
| The Alor-Pantar languages: History and typology | 245 |
| Natural causes of language | 222 |
| Grammatical theory | 208 |
| The Talking Heads experiment | 186 |
| How mobile robots can self-organise a vocabulary | 185 |
| Prosodic detail in Neapolitan Italian | 185 |
| A typology of marked-S languages | 180 |
| A grammar of Mauwake | 168 |
| Advances in the study of Siouan languages and linguistics | 167 |
| The future of dialects | 155 |
| A grammar of Yakkha | 150 |
| Grammaticalization in the North | 143 |
| Die Sprachwissenschaft | 140 |
| The evolution of grounded spatial language | 137 |
| Language strategies for the domain of colour | 135 |
| The evolution of case grammar | 103 |
| Syntax und Valenz | 92 |
| A grammar of Palula | 85 |
| Adjective attribution | 72 |
| Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen²101 | 69 |
| Eyetracking and Applied Linguistics | 7 |
It is obvious that the site langsci-press.org is much more frequented than OAPEN for our books. There are only a fraction of visits to our pdf documents at OAPEN as compared to the OMP site. One very interesting exception is A grammar of Pite Saami, which is by far the most popular book on OAPEN. It also fares well on the OMP platform, but is not within the top group.
A comparison of the download ranks is given below. Note that the long tail of OAPEN downloads is very close together and that the ranks do not really tell you much. Ranks #11 to #22 are separated by a mere 31 downloads at OAPEN (the difference is 668 at OMP).
Update:
Below are the figures for views on Google Books, and the comparison to OMP downloads. The top books correspond much better than in the OMP-OAPEN pairing.
The Alor-Pantar languages 2579
Grammatical theory 2322
Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen 1628
Syntax und Valenz 1537
A typology of marked-S languages 1375
The future of dialects 1057
Grammaticalization in the North 962
A grammar of Yakkha 919
New directions in corpus-based translation studies 882
The Talking Heads experiment 789
Prosodic Detail in Neapolitan Italian 749
A grammar of Mauwake 628
A grammar of Pite Saami 568
A grammar of Palula 528
Linguistic variation, identity construction and cognition 501
Advances in the study of Siouan languages and linguistics 484
The evolution of case grammar 298
The empirical base of linguistics 257
Roots of language 254
Natural causes of language 247
Language strategies for the domain of colour 201
How mobile robots can self-organize a vocabulary 191
Die Sprachwissenschaft 157
Thoughts on grammaticalization 154
The evolution of grounded spatial language 86
Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen 61
Adjective attribution 29