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Starting a New Library in the Google Age

Internet Librarian 201222 October 2012

Ronald SnijderAmsterdam University Press / OAPEN Foundation

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Ronald Snijder• Amsterdam University Press: project manager

digital publications• OAPEN Foundation: technical coordinator

• Background: libraries and IT

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Agenda

• Why bother?• Start with a good platform• Search engines are not easy• Get connected• Branching out with DOAB• Usage• Future developments

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The OAPEN Library

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Why bother?

• Collection• Number of books, publishers, languages• Way to enhance usage for monographs• Platform for publishers

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Why bother?

• Collection: – Monographs – mainly in humanities and social

sciences– Quality controlled– Open Access: “Free to read” or “Free to share”

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Why bother?

• Number of books, publishers, languages:– 1000+ titles– 35 publishers– 11 languages

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Why bother?

• Way to enhance usage for monographs:– Declining sales

• Library purchases go down from 1500 (70’s) to 200-300Greco & Wharton (2008)

• Print runs & sales go down from 2000-3000 (70’s) to < 750. Half sells less than 500Thompson (2005)

– Result of ‘serials crisis’

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Why bother?

Serial costs Serial Expenditures(+402%)

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Why bother?

Serial costsvs.Monographcosts

Monographs Purchased (10%)

Monograph Expenditures(+71%)

Serial Expenditures(+402%)

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Why bother?

• Platform for publishers: Showcase their books

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Start with a good platform

• XTF, by California Digital Library• Standard functions• Extra functions• On top of repository database

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Start with a good platform

• XTF, by California Digital Library:– eXtensible Text Framework (XTF)– Open Source software– http://xtf.cdlib.org/

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Start with a good platform

• Standard functions: – Enables serendipity: combination of searching and

browsing– Full text search

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Start with a good platform

• Extra functions: – Multi lingual search – Export in RIS format: EndNote, Mendeley– Social media

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Start with a good platform

• On top of repository database:– Institutional Repositories platform– Exchange (meta) data using OAI PMH

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Search engines are not easy

• OAPEN not always on first results page• Google Scholar or Books?• Technical measures

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Search engines are not easy

• OAPEN not always on first results page:– Compete against Amazon, publishers– Content is mainly PDF, indexing is not great

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Search engines are not easy

• Google Scholar or Books?– Google Scholar does not index books– Google Books requires uploading books through

publishers

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Search engines are not easy

• Technical measures: – Site map – based on www.sitemaps.org protocol– www.schema.org model for books

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Get connected

Academic libraries

Search engines

Data Aggregators

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Get connected

• OAPEN is about usage, regardless of the platform

• Metadata• Get connected• Diversify: DOAB

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Get connected

• Metadata:– Daily updated– Several types: CSV, MARC, Excel optimized, ONIX– CC zero license

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Get connected

• Get connected:– BASE (Bielefeld University Library)– Aggregators

• Serials Solutions (ProQuest)• Primo Central (ExLibris)• EBSCO Discovery Service

– Libraries• Union catalogue of the GVK-GBV, library network Germany• Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, Belgium• James Hardiman Library of the National University of Ireland

– OCLC WorldCat

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Get connected

• Diversify: DOAB– Directory of Open Access Books– www.doabooks.org

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Get connected: the complete picture

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Branching out with DOAB

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Branching out with DOAB

• Discovery service for peer reviewed OA books• Differences between OAPEN and DOAB

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Branching out with DOAB

• Discovery service for peer reviewed OA books:– Only “Free to share”– Publishers provide – and maintain – metadata– Full text books on OAPEN Library or publisher’s

website– Beta version, launched in April 2012

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Branching out with DOAB

Differences between OAPEN and 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

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Usage

• What to measure?• Choosing the right tool• Usage statistics

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Usage

• What to measure?– Main statistic: number of downloads– All other statistics are connected to that

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Usage

• Choosing the right tool:– We started with Google Analytics:

• Only downloads via website, not ‘direct’ downloads• Number of measured downloads not great:

approximately 10% of all downloads

– Now: usage measured at server level– No ready-made solution for statistics at book level– Still a work in progress

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Usage

Aug/11 Sep/11 Oct/11 Nov/11 Dec/11 Jan/12 Feb/12 Mar/12 Apr/12 May/12 Jun/12 Jul/120

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Usage: visitors, visits and book downloads

Unique visitorsVisitsBooks downloaded

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Usage

August 2011 – July 2012

Unique visitors 227,897

Books dowloaded 400,763

Books per visitor 1.78

Visits per visitor 1.37

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Future developments

• Sustainability• More cooperation

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Future developments

• Sustainability:– platform for more publishers– platform for research funders

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Future developments

• More cooperation: – E-depot (Dutch Royal Library): long term

preservation– Europeana: OAPEN as supplier

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Thank you!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@aup.nl• Twitter: @Ronaldsnijder