OAPEN usage report for open access books funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 2014 - 2016

For several years now, the Stand-Alone Publications Programme by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has been funding the production and simultaneous open-access publication of academic books, see: http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/fwf-programmes/stand-alone-publications/ All FWF-funded books are accessible free of charge in the FWF E-Book Library https://e-book.fwf.ac.at/ and in the OAPEN Library http://www.oapen.org/search. The OAPEN Library’s annual data on book usage for 2014 to 2016 shows that the number of archived open-access books is rising steadily, as is the number of downloads per book