Planning & Proof of Concept

The Developing a Data Trust for Open Access Ebook Usage Project

Often referred to as the “OAeBU project” this global effort was funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from January 2020 to March 2022.

Project Focus

 

This project documented the data supply chain and use cases related to OA book usage data, developed infrastructure for usage data aggregation and provision, and identified community-based governance models to support a diverse, global data trust for usage data on open access (OA) monographs. To explore technical requirements, secure multi-platform usage data transfer, storage, aggregation, and visualization mechanisms were developed as a proof of concept with four university presses, a commercial publisher, and OAPEN.

 

Project Outputs

 
 

Project Team

 

The following individuals contributed substantial time and effort, in addition to over 100 contributors who participated via the project’s virtual communities of practice, working groups, and virtual community consultations.

Principal Investigators:

  • Kevin Hawkins (University of North Texas)

  • Lucy Montgomery (Curtin University)

  • Cameron Neylon (Curtin University)

  • Brian O’Leary (Book Industry Study Group)

  • Katherine Skinner (Educopia Institute)

  • Rebecca Welzenbach (University of Michigan)

Project Staff:

  • Data Trust Program Officer, Christina Drummond (Educopia Institute)

  • Data Science Leads, Kathryn Napier (Curtin University, after 8/2021) and Richard Hosking (Curtin University, through 8/2021 )

  • Product Manager, Alkim Ozaygen (Curtin University)

  • Data Trust Data Scientist, Rebecca Handcock (Curtin University)

  • Data Trust Software Developer, Aniek Roelofs (Curtin University)

Project Consultants:

  • Legal, Agnes Gambill

  • Business Model, Fiona Murphy, Phill Jones, Josh Brown, and Alice Meadows (More Brains LLC dba Murphy Mitchell Consulting Ltd.)

  • OA Supply Chain, Michael Clarke and Laura Ricci (Clarke & Esposito)

Project Advisory Board Members:

  • Yvonne Campfens (OA Switchboard)

  • Jon Elwell (EBSCO/GOBI)

  • Jill Emery (COUNTER, Portland State University Library)

  • Eelco Ferwerda (OAPEN, OASPA, and OPERAS)

  • Andrew Joseph (Wits University Press)

  • Jennifer Kemp (Crossref)

  • Jo Lambert (JISC)

  • Roxanne Missingham (ANU Press)

  • Samuel Moore (Cambridge University and Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM))

  • Peter Potter (Virginia Tech and Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME))

  • Ros Pyne (Bloomsbury Publishing)

  • Wendy Queen (Project MUSE)

  • Gimena del Rio Riande (IIBICRIT, CONICET)

  • Brian Scrivener (University of Calgary Press)

  • John Sherer (University of North Carolina Press)

  • Niels Stern (OAPEN, Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB))

  • Charles Watkinson (University of Michigan Press)

  • Maria Zucker (De Gruyter)

Project Technical Advisors:

  • Javier Arias (Open Book Publishers)

  • Susan Doerr (University of Minnesota Press)

  • Paul Groth (University of Amsterdam)

  • Dimitris Pierrakos (OpenAIRE)

  • Stefanie Haustein (University of Ottawa)

  • Michael Taylor (Digital Science and University of Wolverhampton)

  • Francesco de Virgilio (Ubiquity Press)