Two-dimensional books for the new Open Access academic publishing
Author : Fulvio Guatelli Metadata have become a key element of scientific communication. Indeed, the content of a publication – that is, what we love, discuss a...
Étiquette : open access monographs
More readers in more places: the benefits of open access for scholarly books
Authors : Cameron Neylon, Alkim Ozaygen, Lucy Montgomery, Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang, Ros Pyne, Mithu Lucraft, Christina Emery Open access to scholarly contents has ...
Open access book usage data – how close is COUNTER to the other kind?
Author : Ronald Snijder In April 2020, the OAPEN Library moved to a new platform, based on DSpace 6. During the same period, IRUS-UK started working on the depl...
Open Academic Book Publishing during COVID-19 Pandemic: A View on Romanian University Presses
Authors : Mariana Cernicova-Buca, Katalin Luzan In the context of the 2020 public health crisis that discourages exchanges of physical objects in society, unive...
Open Access Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences: an Open Access Altmetric Advantage
Author : Michael Taylor The last decade has seen two significant phenomena emerge in research communication: the rise of open access (OA) publishing, and eviden...
Analysing the Usage Data of Open Access Scholarly Books: What Can Data Tell Us?
Author : Alkim Ozaygen This study explores data captured on the Internet related to OA scholarly books to provide a detailed overall picture of the disseminatio...
How Can We Use Social Media Data Related to OA Monographs
Authors : Alkim Ozaygen, Lucy Montgomery, Cameron Neylon, Katie Wilson, RichardHosking, Karl Huang This paper reports on a study of social media events relating...