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OA academic book publishing –OAPEN Library and DOAB EIFL General Assembly 2 July 2012 Ronald Snijder
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OA academic book publishing –OAPEN Library and DOAB
EIFL General Assembly2 July 2012
Ronald Snijder
• Introduction• Monograph crisis• OAPEN
– OAPEN as possible solution to monograph crisis?– OAPEN library– New project: DOAB
Agenda
Ronald Snijder• Amsterdam University Press: projectmanager
digital publications• OAPEN Foundation: technical coordinator
Introduction
Sales of monographs is in decline since the 70’s:• Greco & Wharton: library purchases
– 70’s: 1500– Now: 200-300
• Thompson: print runs & sales– 70’s: 2000-3000 (print runs)– Now: 50% < 500 – majority < 750 (sales)
• Result of ‘serials crisis’
Monographs: declining sales
Serials costs
Serial Expenditures(+379%)
Serials vs. monographs costs: a large difference
Monographs Purchased (5%)
Monograph Expenditures(+73%)
Serial Expenditures(+379%)
Goals of OAPEN:• Developing an OA business model• Building a network• Aggregating a collection of OA books
2008 – EU funded project2011 – OAPEN Foundation
OAPEN as possible solution
• OA model for academic books– Awareness of need for alternative business model– Involvement of stakeholders in Europe and beyond
• OAPEN Platform– OAPEN Library: 30+ publishers; 1000+ OA books– Tools and services to facilitate OA publishing
• Further activities– Pilot projects: testing and developing model in national context– Foundation to promote and expand OA book publishing
OAPEN: results
The OAPEN Library
• Collection– OA Monographs (several licenses)
• Free to read• Free to share
– Quality assurance: peer review• Search and browse, multilingual search• Social media, export citation
Properties of the OAPEN Library
OAPEN Library as part of other networks• Connected:
– WorldCat– DOAB
• Integration:– Academic libraries: metadata export– Aggregators– Search engines
OAPEN Library: connected
Connecting the OAPEN Library
Integrating the OAPEN Library
Academic libraries
Search engines
Data Aggregators
• Search engines:– Site map – based on www.sitemaps.org protocol– www.schema.org model for books
• Data aggregators:– Serials Solutions (ProQuest)– Primo Central (ExLibris)– EBSCO Discovery Service
• Academic Libraries:– MARC XML and other metadata feeds– OAI harvesting– Examples:
• Union catalogue of the GVK-GBV, large library network in Germany• Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent• James Hardiman Library of the National University of Ireland
Integrating the OAPEN Library
Integration through data feeds
Success?
Apr/11
May/1
1
Jun/11
Jul/11
Aug/11
Sep/1
1
Oct/11
Nov/11
Dec/11
Jan/1
2
Feb/1
2
Mar/12
Apr/12
May/1
20
10000
20000
30000
40000
50000
60000
Usage: visitors, visits and book downloads
Unique visitorsVisitsBooks downloaded
April 2011 – May 2012:
• Unique visitors: 236,665• Books downloaded: 392,778• Books per visitor: 1.65
Usage data
Directory of Open Access Books
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
• Discovery service for peer reviewed OA books• Publishers provide – and maintain – metadata• Full text books on OAPEN Library or publisher’s website• Beta version, launched in April 2012
June 2012: – 1098 monographs – 27 publishers
DOAB: New service by OAPEN
DOAB: data from publishers and OAPEN Library
Academic libraries
Data Aggregators
Integrating DOAB
OAPEN Library DOAB
Contents • Full text• Metadata
Metadata only
License • Free to read• Free to share
Free to share only
Search • Full text• Metadata• Classification: BIC
• Metadata• Classification: LCC
DOAB and OAPEN Library
DOAB as part of other networks:• Academic Libraries:
– MARC XML and other metadata feed– OAI harvesting
• Data aggregators:– Primo Central (ExLibris)– EBSCO Discovery Service
Integrating DOAB
• Paper monographs are struggling• Possible solution: OA publishing
– High availability may lead to higher impact• OAPEN Foundation supports this
– Quality assurance (peer review)– Connected platforms– Working together
Conclusion
More on OAPEN:• www.oapen.org• www.oapen.nl• www.oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org• Twitter:@Oapenbooks
Directory of Open Access Books:• www.doabooks.org• Twitter: @Doabooks
Contact me:• [email protected]• Twitter: @Ronaldsnijder
Thank you!
