The first two boOkmArks events are up:

• OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit: demo and discussion with Eelco Ferwerda, Thursday 1st October 3pm BST/4pm CEST
• ‘Diversifying Readership Through Open Access’, discussing the recent SN/COARD paper on OA book usage with Ros Pyne and Cameron Neylon, Tuesday 6th October 4pm BST / 5pm CEST

Also: we’ll be holding our first bOokmArks: Open Conversations about Open Access Books event tomorrow at 3pm BST/4pm CEST with Eelco Ferwerda, the Director of OAPEN, about the Toolkit – how it was developed, who was involved & what he hopes it will achieve. Come along and bring your questions: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6027862482 or submit them in…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

I’m pleased to share that we have just launched the OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit: A freely available toolkit: helping academic book authors to better understand open access book publishing.

More on the toolkit can be found here: https://oapen.org/oapen/article/10705775-launch-of-the-oapen-open-access-books-toolkit

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A new working paper looking for altmetric advantages in OA Books and Book Chapters:  Michael Taylor, “Open Access Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences: an Open Access Altmetric Advantage” preprint on arxiv, https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10442” This paper examines the altmetrics of a set of 32,222 books (of which 5% are OA) and a set of…[Read more]

Hi Christina,

Thanks for sharing the invitation for this great initiative here! Please do feel free to share any updates on the project here as it would certainly interest myself and I’m sure many others in the Network.

Invitation to inform an OA Ebook Usage Data Trust pilot

On behalf of the OA eBook Usage (OAeBU) Data Trust pilot project (https://educopia.org/data_trust/), I want to welcome all to contribute to our on-going development of global use-cases for OA book usage data. Anyone can join the conversation and inform the development of the global pilot…[Read more]

So glad to see this group emerge (and was sorry to miss the launch event).

My interest in OA books started out as with my role as an OA advocate in a bundle of fields (media, communication, film studies) that span the book vs. article cultures. I started to write about these topics, and more recently founded a nonprofit, OA publishing house,…[Read more]

Somewhat immodestly, I’m going to kick this thread off by sharing a series of blog posts I wrote for OA Week 2018 about Open Access for authors:

• An Academic’s Guide to Open Access
• What should I ask a publisher about Open Access?
• APCs, BPCs, can I have some money please – who pays for OA?
• Green, Gold, Diamond, Black, Hybrid – what does…

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Hi Sebastian, thanks for this feedback. Hmm I’ll have a chat with my fellow authors and see if we can incorporate what you’ve told us here. Looks like we may have misinterpreted something along the way. This is very useful feedback and a great example of how this network works!

Best wishes,

Tom

FWIW, our bookdownload figures are available from here as csv: https://github.com/langsci/opendata/blob/master/bookdownloads/langscidownloads.csv

We made some analyses, but they are not really conclusive:

Downloads over time: https://userblogs.fu-berlin.de/langsci-press/2015/08/12/access-stats-for-open-access-books/

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A few recent posts and articles to get things started:

• What’s in a number? A closer look at Open Access readership data, Part One and Part Two by Laura Mesotten, a deep dive into book usage data and its presentation at Leuven University Press
• These reference a post of my own from late last year, What We Talk About When We Talk About Book U…

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I had a look at @scholtom‘s report. Very nice work. The section on “subscribe-to-open” lists Language Science Press. I am not sure this is 100% correct. LangSci never had closed content, so we could not possibly do a transition, and we can also not threaten to revert back to that. I can see how we ended up there, but the model is slightly…[Read more]

A couple more posts on OA books and business models, all (relatively) recently published:

• State of Open Monographs Series: The Economics of Open Access Monographs and part two State of Open Monograph Series: Open access monograph funding, in which Sara Grimme and Charles Watkinson talk to Lara Speicher and Erich van Rijn
• Making OA Monographs…

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