6. Serials vs. monographs costs: a large
difference
Serial Expenditures
(+379%)
Monograph Expenditures
(+73%)
Monographs Purchased
(5%)
7. OAPEN as possible solution
Goals of OAPEN:
• Developing an OA business model
• Building a network
• Aggregating a collection of OA books
2008 – EU funded project
2011 – OAPEN Foundation
8. OAPEN: results
• OA model for academic books
– Awareness of need for alternative business model
– Involvement of stakeholders in Europe and beyond
• OAPEN Platform
– OAPEN Library: 30+ publishers; 1000+ OA books
– Tools and services to facilitate OA publishing
• Further activities
– Pilot projects: testing and developing model in national context
– Foundation to promote and expand OA book publishing
14. Integrating the OAPEN Library
• Search engines:
– Site map – based on www.sitemaps.org protocol
– www.schema.org model for books
• Data aggregators:
– Serials Solutions (ProQuest)
– Primo Central (ExLibris)
– EBSCO Discovery Service
• Academic Libraries:
– MARC XML and other metadata feeds
– OAI harvesting
– Examples:
• Union catalogue of the GVK-GBV, large library network in Germany
• Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent
• James Hardiman Library of the National University of Ireland
19. DOAB: New service by OAPEN
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
• Discovery service for peer reviewed OA books
• Publishers provide – and maintain – metadata
• Full text books on OAPEN Library or publisher’s website
• Beta version, launched in April 2012
June 2012:
– 1098 monographs
– 27 publishers
22. DOAB and OAPEN Library
OAPEN Library DOAB
Contents • Full text Metadata only
• Metadata
License • Free to read Free to share only
• Free to share
Search • Full text • Metadata
• Metadata • Classification: LCC
• Classification: BIC
23. Integrating DOAB
DOAB as part of other networks:
• Academic Libraries:
– MARC XML and other metadata feed
– OAI harvesting
• Data aggregators:
– Primo Central (ExLibris)
– EBSCO Discovery Service
24. Conclusion
• Paper monographs are struggling
• Possible solution: OA publishing
– High availability may lead to higher impact
• OAPEN Foundation supports this
– Quality assurance (peer review)
– Connected platforms
– Working together
25. Thank you!
More on OAPEN:
• www.oapen.org
• www.oapen.nl
• www.oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org
• Twitter:@Oapenbooks
Directory of Open Access Books:
• www.doabooks.org
• Twitter: @Doabooks
Contact me:
• r.snijder@aup.nl
• Twitter: @Ronaldsnijder