TY  - BOOK
AU  - Snijder, Ronald
AB  - In many scholarly disciplines, books - not articles - are the norm. As print runs become smaller, the question arises whether publishing monographs in open access helps to make their contents globally accessible. To answer this question, the results of multiple studies on the usage of open access books are presented. The research focuses on three areas: economic viability; optimization of open access monographs infrastructure and measuring the effects of open access in terms of scholarly impact and societal influence. Each chapter reviews a different aspect: book sales, digital dissemination, open licenses, user communities, measuring usage, developing countries and the effects on citations and social media.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_1004809
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004809
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1100549298
KW  - Open Access
KW  - Monographs
KW  - OAPEN Library
KW  - Directory of Open Access Books
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/4ca2f021-851f-483a-af4e-efd1b86654ba/9789085551201_OA_version.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25287
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
PP  - Amsterdam
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9789085551201
TI  - The deliverance of open access books : Examining usage and dissemination
ER  - 
