1. OA academic book publishing –
OAPEN Library and DOAB
EIFL General Assembly
2 July 2012
Ronald Snijder

2. Agenda
• Introduction
• Monograph crisis
• OAPEN
– OAPEN as possible solution to monograph crisis?
– OAPEN library
– New project: DOAB

3. Introduction
Ronald Snijder
• Amsterdam University Press: projectmanager
digital publications
• OAPEN Foundation: technical coordinator

4. Monographs: declining sales
Sales of monographs is in decline since the 70’s:
• Greco & Wharton: library purchases
– 70’s: 1500
– Now: 200-300
• Thompson: print runs & sales
– 70’s: 2000-3000 (print runs)
– Now: 50% < 500 – majority < 750 (sales)
• Result of ‘serials crisis’

5. Serials costs
Serial Expenditures
(+379%)

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

9. The OAPEN Library

10. Properties of the OAPEN Library
• Collection
– OA Monographs (several licenses)
• Free to read
• Free to share
– Quality assurance: peer review
• Search and browse, multilingual search
• Social media, export citation

11. OAPEN Library: connected
OAPEN Library as part of other networks
• Connected:
– WorldCat
– DOAB
• Integration:
– Academic libraries: metadata export
– Aggregators
– Search engines

12. Connecting the OAPEN Library

13. Integrating the OAPEN Library
Data
Aggregators
Academic Search
libraries engines

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

15. Integration through data feeds

16. Success?
Usage: visitors, visits and book downloads
60000
50000
40000
30000 Unique visitors
Visits
20000 Books downloaded
10000
0

17. Usage data
April 2011 – May 2012:
• Unique visitors: 236,665
• Books downloaded: 392,778
• Books per visitor: 1.65

18. Directory of Open Access Books

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

20. DOAB: data from publishers and
OAPEN Library

21. Integrating DOAB
Academic Data
libraries Aggregators

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