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A data trust for OA book usage data

Along with the University of Michigan, Book Industry Study Group and the University of North Texas, the COARD team worked with collaborators from Queensland University of Technology to develop the concept of a data trust for open access book usage data. Publishers of open access books are diverse and many are quite small, making benchmarking, comparisons and rigorous analysis a challenge. This project developed and validated the idea of a Data Trust as a means for publishers and platforms to shared data in a trusted environment. This is now being taken forward as a A.W. Mellon Foundation funded project led by the University of North Texas.