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

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From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 16:49:24 -0400

Chuck, can you tell us a little more about what you hope to do with
the chapter-level  DOI's?  Cheers, Ann


On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 4:26 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Nicola Gulley <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:35:22 +0100
>
> Dear Chuck
>
> IOP assigns DOIs to book chapters on our new eBooks program me:
>
> http://iopscience.iop.org/books.
>
> If you have any questions or want further information, please contact us.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Nicola
>
> _____________________________
> Nicola Gulley PhD C.Phys FInstP.
> Executive Director - Editorial
> IOP Publishing, Temple Circus
> Bristol. BS1 6HG, UK
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: "Hamaker, Charles" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:38:15 +0000
>
> I’m seeking publishers who assign DOI’s for book chapters.  I’ve just
> started looking, but I note IEEE book chapters and OUP both have DOI’s
> on at least some of their book chapters, perhaps all.  Would all
> publishers who do this, even if it’s a recent development contact me?
>
> Thanks
>
> Chuck