The Digital Einstein Papers: An Open Access Story

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-12-18

Summary:

"A year ago in December, Princeton University Press rolled out an unprecedented open access initiative: the ongoing publication of Einstein’s massive written legacy comprising more than 30,000 unique documents. The Digital Einstein Papers, one of the most ambitious publishing projects ever undertaken, launched to widespread fanfare from the scientific, publishing, and tech communities, with enthusiastic coverage from The New York Times, (which hailed the papers as 'the Dead Sea Scrolls of Physics'), to Inside Higher Ed, The Guardian, and far beyond. You can watch Diana Buchwald, editor of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, launch The Digital Einstein here. A year out, what has the success looked like in terms of traffic? Ken Reed, Digital Production Manager at Princeton University Press takes us behind the scenes: The Digital Einstein Papers site launched on 5 December 2014, and in the past year has had over 340,000 sessions, with over 3.2 million pageviews. Site traffic has been worldwide, with the top five countries in order being the United States, Germany, India, Canada, and Brazil. The site is mobile optimized, especially for the iOS, which accounts for 50% of mobile traffic to the site. This is vital for global users, since by some accounts the mobile share of web traffic is now at 33% globally ..."

Link:

http://blog.press.princeton.edu/2015/12/16/the-digital-einstein-papers-an-open-access-story/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.digitization oa.princeton.u oa.digital_einstein oa.repositories oa.archives oa.libraries oa.librarians oa.glam oa.ch oa.physics oa.education

Date tagged:

12/18/2015, 10:36

Date published:

12/18/2015, 05:36