Call for Comments: Draft OA Books Supply Chain Mapping Report
Christina Drummond
Happy OA Week.
Today, BISG released our project’s draft report of the OA book supply chain, prepared by Michael Clarke and Laura Ricci. To quote the press release:
The draft report is being distributed broadly to solicit both community and industry feedback on its content. The current version includes assessments of key stakeholders and intermediaries, applicable and missing metadata standards, metadata elements specific to open-access works, and a summary of gaps and opportunities in the supply chain for open-access books. Those gaps and opportunities include:
- Journal-based standards and models are a poor fit for OA books
- The supply chain is built for paid access and incentives are aligned for paid access – not necessarily for OA
- Distribution processes are complex, and do not easily handle changes to a title’s OA status
- Existent standards and practices are not yet firmly established for OA monographs, and some are insufficient
- The large and growing number of platforms that deliver OA books to end users creates challenges for usage reporting
The draft report also includes maps of the key data transfer standards and usage capture and reporting within the current open-access supply chain for books.
On behalf of the project, I invite you to contribute your comments directly to the draft to inform the final version and help us spread this call for comments via social media with the tag #OAEBU.
Best regards,
Christina