OA eBook Usage Data Dashboard and Analytics Functionality Prioritization Exercise Results

[Christina Drummond]

Greetings:

This past month, we requested feedback from our communities of university press, library publisher, commercial publisher, and publishing platforms and services to inform our future technical development roadmap. Individuals were invited to select up to five priority features for the next phase of dashboard development, with the understanding that these features build upon what has been developed in our current project's OA eBook Usage Data Dashboard Pilots, which reflect usage by platform, by month, for each OA book and in aggregate, with data ingested from a set of standard platforms and with login-based access controls.  

Here are the votes we received through this consultation. This information is now being considered by members of our project's Advisory Board, as they draft a working mission, vision, and MVP service description for what an OA book usage data dashboard service might look like at launch. Please stay tuned as those drafts are shared for community comment later this year.

Feature	University Presses & Library Publishers	Commercial Publishers	Platforms & Services
Report generation for authors	16	3	1
Report generation for institutions (e.g. universities, libraries)	16	3	1
Benchmark comparisons with other publishers and/or ecosystem for strategic analysis	15	3	2
Visualizations that connect usage data to other internal data (e.g. sales)	12	1	1
Visualizations that span across the publisher corpus (including closed books)	12	0	1
Ability to customize standard visualizations	7	0	2
Ability to commission the design of custom dashboard visualizations	5	2	0
Integration with federated institutional access contraols	5	0	0
Report generation for funders	2	2	2
Report on print sales	0	1	0
Final results 9:30AM EDT August 2, 2021

Christina

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Christina Drummond

OAeBU Data Trust Program Officer

Educopia Institute

Working from Columbus, OH USA | EDT Timezone (UTC-4)

chri...@educopia.org | 1-614-323-8396

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