Making monographs available:OAPEN Library

The European Library Annual Meeting17 September 2013

Ronald Snijder

• Monograph crisis– OAPEN as possible solution to monograph crisis?

• OAPEN Library– Collection– Connections– Users

Agenda

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

The OAPEN Library

• Selection:– Monographs– Open Access – full text available– Quality assurance: peer review

• Multiple subjects• Multiple languages• Growing collection, now > 1,700

Collection of the OAPEN Library

Connecting the OAPEN Library

Academic libraries

Search engines

Data Aggregators

• Connecting to partners:– Europeana– WorldCat– BASE– DOAB

• Integration with information systems:– Academic libraries: metadata export– Aggregators– Search engines

Connecting the OAPEN Library

Success?

Aug/12

Sep/1

2

Oct/12

Nov/12

Dec/12

Jan/13

Feb/1

3

Mar/1

3

Apr/13

May/1

3

Jun/13

Jul/13

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Overview: August 2012 - July 2013

Unique visitorsVisitsBooks downloaded

August 2012 – July 2013:

• Unique visitors: 396,640• Books downloaded: 972,375• Books per visitor: 2.43

Usage data

Who are our users? - Countries

18%

12%

12%

8%7%5%4%

2%2%

2%

28%

Downloads, first half 2012GermanyNetherlandsUSAGreat BritainIndonesiaItalyBelgiumPakistanFranceSingaporeOthers

Who are our users? - Type

19%

3%1%

25%

50%

1%

Downloads, first half 2012

AcademicBusinessGovernmentISP"General public"Non-profit

• OAPEN Library as possible solution to monograph crisis

• Collection: – Based on publication type, not on subject– Quality assurance

• Connecting to other networks is crucial

Conclusion

• Adema, Janneke, & Rutten, P. (2010). Digital Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Report on User Needs. Social Sciences (p. 144). Retrieved from http://project.oapen.org/images/documents/d315 user needs report.pdf

• Adema, Janneke, & Schmidt, B. (2010). From service providers to content producers: new opportunities for libraries in collaborative open access book publishing. New Review of Academic Librarianship, 16(Suppl. 1), 28–43. doi:10.1080/13614533.2010.509542

• Bargheer, M. (2010). Discover the OAPEN Library. Retrieved from http://youtu.be/GgLZh6YwcTM • Bargheer, M., & Schmidt, B. (2008). Göttingen University Press: Publishing services in an Open Access environment. Information Services and Use, 28(2),

133–139.• Collins, E., & Milloy, C. (2012). A snapshot of attitudes towards open access monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences – part of the

OAPEN-UK project. Insights: the UKSG journal, 25(2), 192–197. doi:10.1629/2048-7754.25.2.192• Howard, J. (2013). Open-Access Movement Makes Inroads Beyond Science - Publishing. The Chronicle of Higher Education, (25 july 2013). Retrieved from

http://chronicle.com/article/Open-Access-Movement-Makes/140549/#disqus_thread • Kempf, J., Adema, J., Rutten, P., & OAPEN. (2010). Report on Best Practices and Recommendations. Retrieved from http://

project.oapen.org/images/D316_OAPEN_Best_practice_public_report.pdf • Snijder, R. (2010). The profits of free books: an experiment to measure the impact of open access publishing. Learned Publishing, 23(4), 1–13.

doi:10.1087/20100403• Snijder, R. (2013a). A higher impact for open access monographs: disseminating through OAPEN and DOAB at AUP. Insights: the UKSG journal, 26(1), 55–59.

doi:10.1629/2048-7754.26.1.55• Snijder, R. (2013b, May 6). Measuring monographs: A quantitative method to assess scientific impact and societal relevance. First Monday.

doi:10.5210/fm.v18i5.4250• Steele, C. (2008). Scholarly Monograph Publishing in the 21st Century: The Future More Than Ever Should Be an Open Book. Journal of Electronic Publishing,

11(2). doi:10.3998/3336451.0011.201• Svensson, A., & Eriksson, J. (2013). Monographs and Open Access. ScieCom Info, 9(1). Retrieved from http://

www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/6126 • Williams, P., Stevenson, I., Nicholas, D., Watkinson, A., & Rowlands, I. (2009). The role and future of the monograph in arts and humanities research. Aslib

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Presses. Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 42(4), 397–441. doi:10.3138/jsp.42.4.397

Further reading

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:• r.snijder@oapen.org • Twitter: @Ronaldsnijder

Thank you!