Greetings from the American Midwest.
First of all, thank you for signing up for this discussion forum. Now that there are more than a few of us here, I wanted to kick off our first topic of conversation.
Let's start with introductions. This week, please take a few moments to:
say hello and introduce yourself, and
note why you or your organization is currently interested in OA monograph usage data.
To ground this project in user-centered design, the OA eBU Data Trust team is seeking your help to describe the use cases and personas (roles) therein for organizations and staff members who might benefit from viewing OA eBook usage data. With these introductions, we’ll begin to understand who could use eBook usage information and for what purposes. These responses will also help us to get a clearer picture of the types of data, reports, exports, or tools that would be great to have. (If you have any "wish-list" items already in mind, please share.)
To propel the conversation forward, I share the following ideas generated from a 2018 workshop and shared in the “Exploring Open Access Ebook Usage” white paper authored by Brian O’Leary and Kevin Hawkins.
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Purposes include understanding and/or analyzing across data sources:
Discovery
Access / Consumption / Engagement / Impact:
how / where OA monographs are being used
relative performance of individual books and collections
benchmarking and/or tracking of usage trends over time
subject-specific patterns of use for OA monographs
the communities engaging with OA monographs
Diversity
Quality
data that informs the evaluation and communication of OA book/publishing value and performance
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What do you think? Do these reflect the reasons you are here?
Are these the types of OA eBook usage insights that could matter to you or your organization or are there others?
Here are my answers to the above questions so that you can get to know me a bit...
Who am I: In addition to being the Program Officer for the OA eBook Usage (OAeBU) Data Trust effort, I'm a longtime data policy geek driven by impact and a deep love for the role of data visualizations in data-driven decision-making. After starting my career query and BI dashboard building to support B2B and nonprofit operations, I shifted into data policy, research development and program management. I focused on data analysis heavily in my social science training, prior to earning my MA in International Science and Technology Policy and I hold certifications in international business, design thinking, and information privacy. Aussi, je parle Francaise meilleur de j'écrit.
My interests in OA eBook Usage Data: While my role in this group is to facilitate discussion, I'm personally interested in how de-identified, aggregate usage data can facilitate ROI and gap analyses while surfacing trends in open knowledge flows.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Christina
Dear Christina,
Thanks for kicking off!
And to answer your questions:
1. My name is Ronald Snijder. While I started from a library background, I quickly drifted into IT. In 2007 I started working at Amsterdam University Press, where a new project was being set up: OAPEN. Since then, I have been involved with the OAPEN Library, and later also the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). Nowadays I work fulltime at the OAPEN Foundation. I got rather fascinated by the question of how to prove the impact of open access on books, which resulted in a PhD (available here: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25287).
2. The OAPEN Foundation is managing the OAPEN Library and the DOAB, two platforms dedicated to the dissemination of open access books and chapters. Understanding usage is vital to our mission.
Kind regards,
Ronald Snijder, PhD
OAPEN Foundation
Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5
PO Box 90407
2509 LK The Hague
The Netherlands
email: r.sn...@oapen.org
ORCID: 0000-0001-9260-4941
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Hell all,
I am Kelly; I work at Project MUSE, which is part of Johns Hopkins University Press. I am the Metadata and Linked Data Strategist; my background is 10+ years of academic librarianship as a cataloger/metadata librarian. I am not directly involved with Open Access usage statistics. I know that we collect them and share them across departments for various functions. MUSE has COUNTER for the library customers. Publishers who work with MUSE can sign into the platform and collect statistics.
Thank you,
Kelly
Kelly B. Swickard, MA, MLIS
Metadata & Linked Data Strategist
Project MUSE
The Johns Hopkins University Press
2715 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
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Greetings all:
Now that there are almost 30 of us in this group, I wanted to encourage everyone to take a moment to introduce yourself and your particular interest in OA eBook usage data.
I am going to be working behind the scenes to pull together what comes across this list to present it back next week for holistic review.
If you're uncomfortable sharing this information publicly, please know that next week I hope to share a link to a virtual board that will let you add information about your particular use-case anonymously.
I look forward to learning about how each of you are interacting with OA eBook usage data!
Warm regards,
Christina
On Saturday, June 27, 2020 at 9:06:21 AM UTC-4 watkinc wrote:
Thank you, Christina.
Who am I? I'm Charles Watkinson, Associate University Librarian for Publishing at University of Michigan and Director of University of Michigan Press. My main goal in life is to get the longest job title, but beyond that I am interested in monograph publishing and its future. University of Michigan Press is an integral part of U-M Library and publishes about 80 monographs a year. In 2016 we started working on our own publishing platform, now called Fulcrum, because it was becoming apparent that publishers need to innovate in form not only in content to compete. Recent moves by Cambridge UP to build Cambridge Core in-house and De Gruyter to build its own platform in collaboration with 67bricks show that other scholarly book publishers also see this. To sustain Fulcrum, we are offering hosting services at a low price point to aligned publishers. We recently launched British Archaeological Reports (3,000 titles) and the ACLS Humanities Ebook Collection (5,500 titles) on Fulcrum.
My interests in OA eBook Usage Data: Owning our own platform has the other advantage of being able to tell a rich story of usage to our authors, their funders, and our editors, and our funders. But with OA ebooks there is redeposit after redeposit on other platforms and the usage information gets split. For those platforms who do share usage information with us, they currently do so in such disparate ways that it is impossible to normalize the data. But so many other platforms don't share information with us. This makes it really hard to tell a data-driven story and, since usage is the currency of OA publishing, it makes it harder for us and our authors to justify an OA-forward approach.
Charles
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 4:31 PM Christina Drummond <chri...@educopia.org> wrote:
Greetings from the American Midwest.
First of all, thank you for signing up for this discussion forum. Now that there are more than a few of us here, I wanted to kick off our first topic of conversation.
Let's start with introductions. This week, please take a few moments to:
1. say hello and introduce yourself, and
2. note why you or your organization is currently interested in OA monograph usage data.
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Dear all,
For the OAPEN Library, usage data is an important indicator of our success. Our mission is to disseminate OA books, and having reliable data is crucial. Since mid-2013, we cooperate with IRUS-UK in order to obtain COUNTER compliant usage data (book and chapter downloads). See also https://irus.jisc.ac.uk/documents/IRUS-UK_working_with_OAPEN.pdf.
We send reports to our members (publishers and funders) about the usage of ‘their’ documents. Furthermore, we make usage and other ‘altmetrics’ visible for publications with a DOI. See for instance https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30339.
Kind regards,
Ronald Snijder, PhD
OAPEN Foundation
Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5
PO Box 90407
2509 LK The Hague
The Netherlands
email: r.sn...@oapen.org
ORCID: 0000-0001-9260-4941
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Greetings all:
Now that there are almost 30 of us in this group, I wanted to encourage everyone to take a moment to introduce yourself and your particular interest in OA eBook usage data.
I am going to be working behind the scenes to pull together what comes across this list to present it back next week for holistic review.
If you're uncomfortable sharing this information publicly, please know that next week I hope to share a link to a virtual board that will let you add information about your particular use-case anonymously.
I look forward to learning about how each of you are interacting with OA eBook usage data!
Warm regards,
Christina
On Saturday, June 27, 2020 at 9:06:21 AM UTC-4 watkinc wrote:
Thank you, Christina.
Who am I? I'm Charles Watkinson, Associate University Librarian for Publishing at University of Michigan and Director of University of Michigan Press. My main goal in life is to get the longest job title, but beyond that I am interested in monograph publishing and its future. University of Michigan Press is an integral part of U-M Library and publishes about 80 monographs a year. In 2016 we started working on our own publishing platform, now called Fulcrum, because it was becoming apparent that publishers need to innovate in form not only in content to compete. Recent moves by Cambridge UP to build Cambridge Core in-house and De Gruyter to build its own platform in collaboration with 67bricks show that other scholarly book publishers also see this. To sustain Fulcrum, we are offering hosting services at a low price point to aligned publishers. We recently launched British Archaeological Reports (3,000 titles) and the ACLS Humanities Ebook Collection (5,500 titles) on Fulcrum.
My interests in OA eBook Usage Data: Owning our own platform has the other advantage of being able to tell a rich story of usage to our authors, their funders, and our editors, and our funders. But with OA ebooks there is redeposit after redeposit on other platforms and the usage information gets split. For those platforms who do share usage information with us, they currently do so in such disparate ways that it is impossible to normalize the data. But so many other platforms don't share information with us. This makes it really hard to tell a data-driven story and, since usage is the currency of OA publishing, it makes it harder for us and our authors to justify an OA-forward approach.
Charles
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 4:31 PM Christina Drummond <chri...@educopia.org> wrote:
Greetings from the American Midwest.
First of all, thank you for signing up for this discussion forum. Now that there are more than a few of us here, I wanted to kick off our first topic of conversation.
Let's start with introductions. This week, please take a few moments to:
1. say hello and introduce yourself, and
2. note why you or your organization is currently interested in OA monograph usage data.
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Hello everyone!
I’m Bonnie. I am now the Project Manager for MESH Research at Michigan State University, but previously I was the Technical Project Manager at the Wayne State University Press. Like Kelly I’m no longer directly involved in OA ebook usage metrics, however one of the projects I’m involved with may begin doing so.
On a personal note, in finishing my MLIS in April I began work on a research proposal that specifically looks at OA ebook usage data, and I am working to continue that research at MSU. I’m particularly interested in OA usage in regards to open educational resources.
I’m very much looking forward to working with all of you.
Best,
Bonnie
Bonnie Russell
She/Her/Hers
Project Manager MESH Research
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