From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 10:28:32 +0100 I entirely agree with Chuck that it is useful to scholars if you can access a chapter directly and of course find the chapter but (as he says). Springer made the decision to go digital with all their book list (seeing print as a minor spin off) and it is to their credit that they gave their chapters DOIs with all the extra work/cost involved, in spite of the fact that they seem to have been hoping to add their book bundles to their journal bundles. Now many publishers have adopted e-books and set up their work flows without thinking in terms of chapters. Why should they change? libraries are not usually geared up to dealing with chapters, or so Chuck says - and he knows about such things. It is a chicken and egg situation. When I (Chapman & Hall) put all our journals online in 1995 and tried to sell the electronic access to individual journals at a ten per cent surcharge for the additional functionality and to cover the additional cost, the take-up was tiny . I spoke to librarians. They were not ready for what I was offering. Of course it was a messy business, as it was the days of passwords. It was the Big Deal that made the difference. What is the current Big Deal - is it an aggregator push? Anthony -----Original Message----- 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 ________________________________________ 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