Why We're Here | Introductions and Use Cases
Christina Drummond
Thanks for joining this virtual discussion forum for university presses interested in informing the Open Access eBook Usage (OAeBU) Data Trust. To ground the project in user-centered design, the project 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 monograph usage information.
To get us started with introductions, I’d like to invite each of you to 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 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-----
Looking forward to the discussion,
Christina
Sanfilippo, Tony
Hello,
I’m Tony Sanfilippo and I’m the director of the Ohio State University Press. Before becoming director of the OSU Press, I was at the Penn State Press for 15 years where my final position was assistant press director.
OSU Press has an extensive OA program where all of our monographs become OA five years after publication and are freely available on OSU’s IR, Knowledge Bank. We are also very active in finding individual title subventions for our monographs and have opened 21 titles upon publication, 3 were recipients of TOME funding, 17 received Knowledge Unlatched funding, and one was funded by the author’s library. We currently have 11 candidates up for the next round KU funding and are in negotiations with a TOME funder for one other title. I’m interested in this topic because measuring use around OA content is growing in importance while it simultaneously is getting more difficult to do. So I hope I can learn from this list and hopefully provide useful contributions.
All the best,
he/him/his
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https://educopia.org/data_trust/.
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Charles Watkinson
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Fallon, Steve
Good Sunday to Everyone,
I am Steve Fallon, VP Americas and Strategic Partnerships for De Gruyter where I have been for the last nine years. I created and manage our Partner Publisher Program since 2012 now in coordination with fifteen university presses (13 US, 1 Canada, 1 Europe)
providing hosting and global distribution of eBooks. In addition, I manage De Gruyter’s commercial and publishing operations in the Americas.
As you may or may not know, De Gruyter is one of the larger OA Book publishers with over 1,600 frontlist, backlist and archive titles in the DOAB. In addition, we host over 500 OA titles from our university press and publishing partners on degruter.com.
As a publisher and aggregator we understand the need to both receive and provide OA usage reporting for De Gruyter and on behalf of our UPs and I look forward to providing insights to the group from our unique perspective. My main interest is in the consolidation of platform usage and how the data, reporting and tools could be used a springboard for consolidated access models of both open access and paid content to further the mission of access and use for scholarly presses.
I look forward to working with everyone.
Best,
Steve Fallon
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bfuget
Hi everyone, I’m Beth Fuget and I handle grants and digital projects at the University of Washington Press. We published our first open access book just two years ago and are publishing more as funding allows. That first book was supported by a TOME grant and we have two more TOME books in the pipeline; we’ve just included our first project in the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot; we’ve made an ongoing series of some twenty books openly available with the support of our library, which is a strong OA advocate, and to which we report; and we’re involved in a few open initiatives involving more complex digital projects.
We rely more heavily than most presses on sales income (with a university subvention much smaller than most) so have been cautiously tiptoeing into these waters. It would be extremely helpful to have comparable figures showing the impact and use of OA books compared with similar paid-access books, to make the case for OA with authors, colleagues, and funders. Evidence on how open access might positively or negatively impact sales would be invaluable. I’m also interested in quantitative and qualitative evidence that would support a case for OA on equity and justice grounds: information on how books are used in parts of the world that wouldn’t otherwise have access to them, how they’re effectively made available to people in underserved communities and what those people do with them, etc.
I look forward to our conversations!
Thanks,
Beth
Beth Fuget
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Sherer, John
Hello Friends,
I’m John Sherer, the director at the University of North Carolina Press. I’ve been here for 8 years, after having been in trade publishing in NY for a decade, and bookselling in Washington, DC for a decade before that.
UNC is the PI on the Mellon-funded Sustainable History Monograph Pilot. Under our Longleaf Services division, we’re helping around 20 university presses publish between 75-100 new OA monographs in history. The first batch have gone live in the past few months and we’re beginning to try and look at usage reporting. None of you will be surprised to learn that it’s very difficult. OA books should be widely disseminated to as many platforms as one can, but there are no agreed-upon definitions of what we’re measuring: views, engagements, downloads, impressions. Some platforms display these uses in real time. Others provide them monthly. Or quarterly. Or semi-annually. The reports are dash-boards, or csv files, or widgets on web pages.
We know there is value in how widely these monographs are being used, but the obstacles to compiling and expressing that usage are currently very high.
John Sherer -- Director
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University of North Carolina Press
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Hi everyone, I’m Beth Fuget and I handle grants and digital projects at the University of Washington Press. We published our first open access book just two years ago and are publishing more as funding allows. That first book was supported by a TOME grant and we have two more TOME books in the pipeline; we’ve just included our first project in the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot; we’ve made an ongoing series of some twenty books openly available with the support of our library, which is a strong OA advocate, and to which we report; and we’re involved in a few open initiatives involving more complex digital projects.
We rely more heavily than most presses on sales income (with a university subvention much smaller than most) so have been cautiously tiptoeing into these waters. It would be extremely helpful to have comparable figures showing the impact and use of OA books compared with similar paid-access books, to make the case for OA with authors, colleagues, and funders. Evidence on how open access might positively or negatively impact sales would be invaluable. I’m also interested in quantitative and qualitative evidence that would support a case for OA on equity and justice grounds: information on how books are used in parts of the world that wouldn’t otherwise have access to them, how they’re effectively made available to people in underserved communities and what those people do with them, etc.
I look forward to our conversations!
Thanks,
Beth
Beth Fuget
Grants and Digital Projects
206.616.0818
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Barbara K. Pope
Hi Everyone. I’m Barbara Kline Pope, director of Johns Hopkins University Press--home of Project MUSE and of books, journals, and distribution (HFS) divisions. Before Hopkins, I worked for 34 years at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine as executive director of communications and the National Academies Press where all books are free to read upon publication since 2011 and before that a wide selection of books were free to read since 1994.
We made all 1,400 JHUP books on Project MUSE free to read starting on March 18 to allow faculty, students, and others to access our research and scholarship during the Spring semester while studying and working remotely because of COVID-19. Open Access books published by JHUP are available only on Project MUSE. Last year, we made 100 books OA from our backlist and also digitized 200 books from our archive with a generous NEH/Mellon grant and posted those to MUSE as OA. Over the Memorial Day Weekend we published an instant book (yes, in five days) about digital contact tracing technologies for a group of JHU faculty and upon request of the JHU President. That book received 37,000 downloads during the last four days of May. MUSE reports monthly and expect to see double that amount by the end of June. We are in the middle of another fast-track OA book called COVID-19 and World Order from JHU’s School of Advanced International Studies that will come in to the Press in mid-July and be published and posted by September 1.
Early data show that, overall, the 1,400 JHUP books free on MUSE since March had no different print and e-book sales pattern than those books not on MUSE. It is an unusual time, however, so we are not concluding that in another time without a world crisis, sales patterns would mimic this analysis.
I know that Wendy Queen who is director of Project MUSE is part of this group and so she can represent the operational aspects of usage data on that platform. I joined this group because I’m interested in all aspects of OA and know that I can learn so much from all of you.
Best,
Barbara
Barbara Kline Pope
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