ANU Press titles reach two million downloads for the first time

Australian National University’s (ANU) online publisher, ANU Press, has reached more than 2.3 million downloads of its titles in 2017.

This is the first time the press has surpassed the two-million mark in a calendar year since ANU Press made all its titles freely available to download online in 2003. The milestone more than doubles the million-download mark the press hit in 2016.

ANU Press Advisory Committee chair James Fox said the milestone highlighted the publisher’s impact in making ANU academic research available to a wider audience, with more than half the downloads coming from outside of Australia.

‘Our books are downloaded by people in virtually every country in the world. This year we have had downloads in more than 260 countries including Burundi, Tajikistan and even the Vatican City State,’ said Fox.

The most downloaded book through ANU Press for 2017 was The Military and Democracy in Asia and the Pacific (ed by Ron May). Another popular book was Adam Shoemaker’s Black Words White Page, which examines Indigenous Australian literature and has been downloaded ‘tens of thousands of times’, said Fox.

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