Administrative: One million page views on AMIR

It seems appropriate to mention during the Open Access Week (Oct. 21-Oct. 27) that earlier this month AMIR has surpassed one million page views.

 Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR) project started in 2010 as a series of conversations between librarians about the need for a tool to assemble and distribute information on open access material relating to the Middle East and Islamic Studies. During the last nine years we have published hundreds of posts helping researchers identify freely available resources online.

Our statistics indicate that most frequently visited pages are the following:

Alphabetical list of Open Access Islamic Manuscripts Collections
Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern Studies
West African Arabic Manuscript Database
Arabic Almanac App

Using rather simple classification system we identified dozens of subjects helping users discover resources and navigate the site by country, theme or format:

Turkey	94
Manuscripts	66
Egypt	50
USA	48
Palestine	43
Germany	38
Iran	36
France	32
Israel	31
E-Books	26
Afghanistan	23

Web traffic to AMIR comes from many countries as seen below :

United States	400699
Germany	109683
Russia	101943
France	40690
Ukraine	28647
United Kingdom	24730
Turkey	20477
United Arab Emirates	7972
Egypt	7881

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