The Open Access Books Network is a space for passionate conversations about OA books. Researchers, publishers, librarians, infrastructure providers — indeed, anyone who is interested — can discuss any aspect of OA books here. This group was begun by members of OAPEN, OPERAS, ScholarLed and SPARC Europe.
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Files List
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Increasing Visibility of Open Access Materials in a Library Catalog: Case Study at a Large Academic Research Library
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LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS The Changing Academic Publishing Industry– Implications for Academic Institutions
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OpenCitations, an infrastructure organization for open scholarship
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Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications: A Call for Action!
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WP5 Scoping Report: Building an Open Dissemination System
Stone, Graham, Gatti, Rupert, van Gerven Oei, Vincent W.J., Arias, Javier, Steiner, Tobias, & Ferwerda, Eelco. (2020, July 27). WP5 Scoping Report: Building an Open Dissemination System (Version 1.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3961564
COPIM's Work package 5 (WP5) is developing technical protocols and infrastructure to better integrate OA books into institutional library, digital learning, and repository systems. This will support wider discovery and dissemination of OA books. Existing print and ebook distribution channels are difficult for new or OA publishers to engage with, requiring submission of metadata in multiple different formats (e.g. MARC, ONIX, KBART), and many platforms requiring multiple different metadata submissions; In addition, existing distribution channels are not well suited to OA content, while entirely new discovery and dissemination platforms are emerging (e.g. Google Books/Scholar).
Guided by the perspective of new and emerging not-for-profit OA presses that have not yet been sufficiently integrated into existing discovery systems, knowledge bases, and supply routes, the aim of WP5 is to develop methods and systems to better integrate the catalogues of OA publishers into curated research records. The implementation of “best practices” workflows for OA book publishers will allow their catalogues to be better integrated into the scholarly record (discoverability, reach, persistence), increasing the impact of OA books.
WP5 will build an Open Dissemination System (ODS) for OA books and a shared “best practices” digital catalogue. The ODS will be built as a decentralised system, using open source code, open protocols and standards and distributed databases—all under collective control. Doing so will ensure the system cannot be operated for the benefit of a single entity (either commercial or not). The ODS is currently under development under the project name Thoth. It consists of a metadata management system and a suite of exporting functions to allow publication metadata to be exported to all main metadata formats and data transfer with all relevant major platforms in the library and book selling supply chain.
This scoping report is a key deliverable of WP5, in order to support the creation of the ODS. The report itself will discuss the distribution of books via the traditional library supply and new forms of digital dissemination before looking at metadata in depth. Metadata creation and types will be investigated in order to form a number of key recommendations for WP5. These recommendations are noted throughout the report before being grouped and discussed further in the recommendation section (see 9.0).
Rather than publishing this report at the outset of the work package, it was decided to publish a time-stamped version, while simultaneously continuing to develop the report as the project progressed over time, and to encourage comment from the community. Version 1.0 of this report is available here on Zenodo as a PDF (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3961564), and on the COPIM documentation site as a living document.
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OAPEN-NL - A project exploring Open Access monograph publishing in the Netherlands, Final Report (2013)
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Changing publishing ecologies A landscape study of new university presses and academic-led publishing
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The Transcript OPEN Library Political Science Model.pdf
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KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE SURVEY ON OPEN ACCESS MONOGRAPHS (2018)
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Guide to open access monograph publishing for arts, humanities and social science researchers
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Metadata for open access monographs (2016)
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Guide to Creative Commons for Humanities and Social Science Monograph Authors
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The OA effect: How does open access affect the usage of scholarly books? – Springer Nature Whitepaper (2017)
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The Visibility of Open Access Monographs in a European Context. Knowledge Unlatched Research January 2018
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Digital Science Report The State of Open Monographs June 2019
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OPERAS White Paper Open Access Business Models July 2018
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Towards a Roadmap for Open Access Monographs A Knowledge Exchange Report
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Lucy Barnes, Rupert Gatti. Bibliodiversity in Practice: Developing Community-Owned, Open Infrastructures to Unleash Open Access Publishing. ELPUB 2019 23rd edition of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Jun 2019, Marseille, France. ⟨10.
Lucy Barnes, Rupert Gatti. Bibliodiversity in Practice: Developing Community-Owned, Open Infrastructures to Unleash Open Access Publishing. ELPUB 2019 23rd edition of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Jun 2019, Marseille, France. ⟨10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.21⟩. ⟨hal-02175276⟩
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OAPEN OA Books Toolkit - Background Poster
This is a poster presented as part of the OpenRepositories2020 Virtual Conference Session on the OAPEN OA Books Toolkit. The OAPEN OA Books Toolkit will be hosted on its own platform and provide authors worldwide with a useful resource that helps them to better understand and increase trust in OA book publishing.
