Building a trusted framework for coordinating OA monograph usage data

Stakeholders in monograph publishing are adapting to a landscape that includes online, digital, and open access possibilities, requiring a reassessment of their strategic goals. Granular and comparable information on users and usage of OA monographs has the potential to support these stakeholders in adapting their acquisition, marketing, and sustainability strategies to the new opportunities and demands of an evolving scholarly communication ecosystem. Successful collaboration will require thoughtful engagement with issues of trust, the development of shared technical standards, and the development of requirements for the validation of data and information. To lay the groundwork for this, we develop a case for the need for action and a description of the landscape, and we propose a ‘community data trust’ as a way forward for the monograph community.

Project partners: Queensland University of Technology, Book Industry Study Group, University of Michigan, University of North Texas