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Digital Science Studies the State of OA Monographs
Digital Science released a report on the state of OA monographs. It explores “how we integrate and value monographs in the increasingly open digital scholarly network.” Key findings include the following:- Open access is still a relatively small part of the monograph landscape. As of mid-2019, the Directory of Open Access Books lists fewer than 20,000 OA books of all dates. … This is compared to an estimated 86,000 monographs published internationally every year.
- The challenges scholarly publishers face in adding open access monographs to their publishing programmes include issues with general discoverability and inclusion in library catalogues. They also face the challenge of how to measure the value and distribution of open access materials, in the absence of sales data and difficulties gaining usage data.
- Monographs famously collect citations at a slower rate than journal-based research articles. Data in this report from Altmetric shows that monographs also accrue impact over a longer life cycle in a broader context, and show higher rates of impact in policy documents and [W]ikipedia, than equivalent journal-based articles.
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