From: Charles Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 06:13:30 -0500

The ONIX standard for OA monographs is very useful and kudos to
Editeur for being out ahead of this need. We have adopted it at
University of Michigan Press and now BiblioVault at University of
Chicago Press's Distribution Center (our distributor) is able to send
out feeds for any OA books that its 100 academic publisher clients
produce.

The challenge is whether library vendors are set up to accept these
feeds. Coutts has taken a leadership role in this area for us, but
until more partners set up their systems to accept the additional
fields an ONIX for OA monographs record contains, the environment will
be all push and no pull, and OA book discovery will remain
problematic.

This probably is an area where library requests to their vendors for
transparent reporting of OA availability for books would be helpful.
"Do you accept OA monograph ONIX feeds from publishers?" would be a
good question to ask any jobber or aggregator.

Charles

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 8:52 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Graham Bell <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:47:08 +0000
>
> Hi Jim
>
> Having now read your piece, you may also be interested in the
> following FAQ which outlines some of the common questions specifically
> about OA monographs:
>
> http://www.editeur.org/files/ONIX%203/20140722%20Open%20Access%20e-books%20in%20ONIX%20FAQ.pdf
>
> Regards
> Graham
>
> Graham Bell
> Executive Director, EDItEUR
> United House, North  Road
> London N7 9DP
> UK


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