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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:46:58 +0000

I too have been following this post with and would like to share some
data that may be of interest.

In July 2011, OECD started 'publishing by chapter' for most of our
titles. Previously, we could only cope with publishing a small
proportion of our list by chapter - creating and managing metadata for
thousands of chapters compared to a few hundred books is a huge jump
in workload and complexity and we had to invest in new systems to
deliver this improvement. But it's been worth it.

In July 2011, we recorded around 50,000 downloads of the chapters that
were online at that time and 50,000 downloads of complete books.

In July 2012, we recorded just over 130,000 downloads of chapters and
80,000 downloads of complete books.

In July 2013, the figures had risen to 260,000 and 150,000 respectively.

July, of course, is not an ideal month to follow since it marks the
low point in the year as the northern hemisphere is enjoying its
summer.  In November 2013, (peak demand month) we recorded nearly
350,000 downloads of chapters and 170,000 downloads of complete books.
We're seeing continued growth in 2014.

Over this period, OECD continued to publish around 350 books a year in
all languages, so the growth is not explained by a sudden increase in
output. For those not familiar with OECD's catalogue, we had 9440
books online in May 2014 with 37200 chapters available separately.

Toby Green
Head, OECD Publishing

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From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:06:27 -0400

I have been following this thread with interest.  I wish to mention
that I am in the earliest stages of a project to tag books at the
level of the paragraph.  I have no idea how this project will turn
out, but you have to start somewhere.  Note that I say "tag" and not
"DOI."  The paragraph and not the chapter is the unit of thought, so
doing anything on the chapter level doesn't take us far enough.

It goes without saying that it is not possible to tag paragraphs
manually.  The process has to be automated.

If this project goes anywhere, I will post a summary of it.

Joe Esposito


On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 8:25 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: "Hamaker, Charles" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 01:12:01 +0000
>
> Ann
>
> I appreciate  everyone who has notified via the list,  or written to
> me direct. I"mn interested in knowing potential contacts!
>
> Explaining part of my interest is this note to Ed Pentz.  Here's what
> I wrote Ed.
>
> "You have a number of publishers who deposit Book Chapter DOI's but
> libraries have very few systems integrating them into discovery or
> other indexing platforms.  I'd like to find a way to change that, as
> we have some publishers/platforms where book chapter downloads are
> exceeding traditional article downloads, e.g. Springer Verlag and
> Project Muse UPCC.:
>
> Ann, I have a note from Stanley Wilder at LSU telling me print
> circulations at LSU had dropped last year to 62,000 but chapter
> downloads to their full Springer eBook collection  alone  were at
> 105,000 for the fiscal year. At UNCC we won't be far behind. So its
> clear our users are looking for content previously buried in
> monographs! You can't really compare print book usage to ebook usage
> though lots of writers have tried. They are different media, Different
> characteristics. But we have to be struck by how much eBook usage is
> taking off right now, demonstrating need and demand for it.
>
> Our experience at UNCC and I suspect many many libraries is that eBook
> use provides an immediate and measurable very successful ROI,. How do
> we optimize discovery of eBook content is my question.
>
>  except for ebook collections created by aggregators associated with
> the Discovery systems, chapter linking and indexing seems to be the
> weak link in the chair of discovery.
>
> CrossRef numbers in my estimation are sort of   embarassing for book
> publishers overall. Of the 539,000 book titles with DOIs, 175,000
> titles are metadata deposited by Springer. In fact of the world's
> publishers, only 9 account for 73% of title DOIS and 81% of chapter
> DOIs.
>
> Almost a decade (2005)ago I wrote a piece for Against the Grain stating:
> Isn't it about time for publishers...to deposit DOI's for book chapters?
>
> Clearly the time was not then and isn't much closer now.
>
> What do we need to  spur creation of well indexed easily accessible
> chapter level content crossing platform boundaries? Maybe libraries
> have to create it themselves as  our very successful aggregators  are
> so committed to their multi-tiered approaches and proprietary
> discovery systems. And librarians at the moment seem to value platform
> aboveany other factors including pricing!
>
> So that's where I'm wandering in my thinking,I believe the book
> literatures should be as well indexed and as well linked as the
> article literature.
>
> You can mark a single journal in most discovery systems and articles
> from it are linked. You can't do that for books except at the
> collection level that I'm aware of in discovery systems I know, unless
> of course you bought your ebooks from the  provider of your discovery
> system.. If I'm wrong i'm sure your readers will let me know.
>
> Even databases indexed "full text" by discovery systems at publisher
> sites do not always have links to the content at the chapter level
> even when it is indexed. I'd like to find a way to change that.
>
>
> Regards
> Chuck