From: Tony Sanfilippo <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:20:57 -0500

Perhaps I'm ignorant of the current uses and reuses of metadata but do
libraries use ONIX? I would think that libraries might improve
discoverability with OA MARC records better than they could with an
ONIX feed. Am I mistaken?

And if we're asking vendors to use ONIX to create those MARC records
for libraries, it will require work. Who will pay for that?

Also, this caught my eye and I can't just ignore it. "...PDFs have
their virtues but the only digital advantage they bring is network
transmissibility."

That's a pretty significant advantage. We've figured out how to make
this dense physical object transcend the limitations of space and
time, and it's going to reduce everyone's overall costs. Yet the
friction caused by requiring credentials to access this miracle is so
annoying that we're willing to deride the whole format.

For the record, I'd love to have our books be as feature rich as
possible, but it seems like we're asking publishers to create
highly-functional digital museums for the same cost as producing a
print book. Features have costs. Features require diverse and
expensive skill sets. I've yet to see the business case that indicates
there's a sufficient audience willing to pay for that with the
overwhelming majority of titles that are published in our market
sector.

Best,
Tony


Tony Sanfilippo, Director
Ohio State University Press
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On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 6:31 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> 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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