OA monographs discovery in the library supply chain: draft report and recommendations | Jisc scholarly communications
peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-10-26
Summary:
"Key studies, such as the OAPEN-NL project, have shown that open access has a positive impact on the usage and discovery of monographs. However, a recurring theme for open access monograph publishers is that of discoverability, dissemination and metadata.
In 2017, the Jisc report Changing publishing ecologies: A landscape study of new university presses and academic-led publishing suggested that best practices in metadata were drawn up as the quality of metadata at New University Presses and Academic-led publishing initiatives was at various levels of maturity. This view was confirmed at a European level by the Knowledge Unlatched report to the OPERAS project on the visibility of metadata, which stated that: “The metadata held and managed by OPERAS partners is inconsistent and variable in quality. Collecting and aggregating data from multiple OPERAS partners was a challenge due to inconsistency in bibliographic metadata processes and formats”...."