In 2011, Digital Scholarship had over 12.2 million file requests of which over 9.5 million were page views (requests for HTML, PDF, or Word files). The average number of visitors per day was over 7,000 visitors.
File requests came from 212 countries. The top 5 countries by number of visitors were:
| Country | No. of Visitors |
| United States | > 1.4 million |
| China | > 260,000 |
| Germany | > 97,000 |
| France | > 92,000 |
| Japan | > 84,000 |
The top five publications were (includes PDFs for related books):
| Publication | File Requests |
| DigitalKoans | > 8.9 million |
| Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography | > 1.2 million |
| Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography | > 100,000 |
| Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography | > 82,000 |
| Institutional Repository Bibliography* | > 80,000 |
* Does not include the Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 PDF, which had over 48,000 requests.
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| Digital Scholarship's Digital/Print Books | Digital Scholarship |