Open Access Books: OAPEN Projects Passes 2 Million Downloads, Adds New Publishers, and Enriched Metadata via Isidore
OAPEN is a project based in Europe, “dedicated to Open Access publishing of academic books.” A list of some of the publishers who contribute data to OAPEN can be found on this page.
The two millionth download of an open access book from the OAPEN database took place earlier this month. According to the OAPEN newsletter, “this is the number of downloads since we started measuring through a COUNTER compliant method with support of IRUS-UK in August 2013.”
More from the OAPEN Newsletter:
New Publishers
Ubiquity Press and Language Science Press are now hosting open access books on OAPEN.
Metadata
Isidore is a search platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities developed by French research infrastructure Huma-Num. This January, Isidore started to enrich and index all books and metadata from OAPEN. Isidore currently offers over three million digital resources in three different languages: French, English and Spanish.
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Filed under: Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Open Access, Publishing, Resources
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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