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• Exploring the Public Evidence on Open Access Monographs  
  In category: Impact, OA monographs general report.
  Uploaded by Lucy Barnes on 9 February 2021.

  Author(s)
  Altman, Micah

  Abstract
  In this blog post we look at the open data available on monograph publication, and use it to explore patterns and trends in open monograph publishing. This blog post takes the form of a guided, interactive, reproducible data analysis based on currently available public data. We aim for this exploration to inform libraries, publishers, and authors about the landscape, and prepare for future transitions to open access.
  Date issued
  2021-02
  URI
  https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129690

  Keywords
  open access, scholarly communication, book publishing, monographs

• DIVERSIFYING READERSHIP THROUGH OPEN ACCESS: A USAGE ANALYSIS FOR OA BOOKS - white paper  
  In category: Impact, Usage, Visibility/discoverability.
  Uploaded by Lucy Barnes on 10 September 2020.

  By Ros Pyne, Christina Emery, Mithu Lucraft, Alkim Özaygen, Lucy Montgomery, Cameron Neylon

  Open access (OA) books are reaching more countries and have greater usage and higher citation numbers than non-OA books. A new analysis collaboratively produced by Springer Nature and COARD (Collaborative Open Access Research & Development) presents these and other key findings in a new white paper that explores how OA affects the geographical diversity of readers.

  It shows that OA books have substantially more readers in low-income and lower-middle-income countries and that OA also helps to increase attention to scholarship about these countries. The study is to date the largest and most comprehensive of its kind; the underlying dataset is based on 3,934 books published by Springer Nature, including 281 OA books.

  Confirming previous research looking at the potential usage benefits of OA, this analysis shows more downloads and more citations for every type of book, in every discipline, in each of the three years of publication (2015, 2016, 2017) included in the sample. The report finds that OA books on average achieve ten times more downloads and 2.4 times more citations than non-OA books. Furthermore, download numbers from the open web are generally around double those from institutional network points.

  DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12746177

• The Influence of Open Access on Monograph Sales : The experience at Amsterdam University Press  
  In category: Impact, Sales.
  Uploaded by Agata Morka on 31 July 2020.
• Evaluating the Impact of the FWF-E-Book-Library Collection in the OAPEN Library: An Analysis of the 2014 Download Data  
  In category: Case study, Impact.
  Uploaded by Agata Morka on 31 July 2020.
• A higher impact for open access monographs: disseminating through OAPEN and DOAB at AUP  
  In category: Impact.
  Uploaded by Agata Morka on 31 July 2020.
• Revisiting an open access monograph experiment: measuring citations and tweets 5 years later  
  In category: Impact.
  Uploaded by Agata Morka on 31 July 2020.
• OAPEN-UK matched pairs pilot (2016)  
  In category: Impact, OA monographs general report.
  Uploaded by Agata Morka on 31 July 2020.
• OAPEN-CH – The impact of open access on scientific monographs in Switzerland  
  In category: Impact.
  Uploaded by Agata Morka on 31 July 2020.