Exploring Sustainability for Global OA Book Usage Data Trust Infrastructure

Christina Drummond and Ursula Rabar will facilitate this workshop that invites OA usage stakeholders to learn what the Data Trust IDS service will provide, to then explore and evaluate ways to sustain such a trusted, neutral data intermediary infrastructure within the scholarly publishing ecosystem.

The OA Book Usage Data Trust effort is currently exploring and evaluating ways to sustain a trusted, neutral data intermediary infrastructure within the scholarly publishing ecosystem.  

In this online focus group, you will be able to discuss and consider the strengths and weaknesses of various cost-recovery oriented revenue generation options for the Data Trust.

To accommodate different time zones there will be two time options to choose from:

March 20th at 9.00 AM CET / 8.00 AM UTC / 4.00 AM EDT 

March 20th at 3.00 PM CET / 2.00 PM UTC / 10.00 AM EDT 

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Workshop A: Sustainability for Global OA Book Usage

Christina Drummond and Ursula Rabar will facilitate this workshop that invites OA usage stakeholders to learn what the Data Trust IDS service will provide, to then explore and evaluate ways to sustain such a trusted, neutral data intermediary infrastructure within the scholarly publishing ecosystem.

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Executive Director Christina Drummond will join Laura Ricci of Clarke & Esposito on a panel to discuss open access books and their infrastructure.

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Executive Director Christina Drummond will present a lightning talk on Cyberinfrastructure to support the scalable exchange of sensitive and proprietary usage and impact metrics across public and private stakeholders,

Library publishing stakeholders are invited to inform how an open infrastructure is sustained by and for the communities it serves. This workshop invites OA usage stakeholders to learn what the Data Trust’s International Data Space (IDS) service will provide, to then explore and evaluate ways to sustain such a trusted, neutral data intermediary infrastructure within the scholarly publishing ecosystem.

Specifically participants will:

• Learn about the OAEBUDT effort and the IDS infrastructure

• Consider the strengths and weaknesses of various cost-recovery oriented revenue generation options for non-profit open scholarly infrastructure, leveraging exercises from the Open Data Institute’s Sustainable Data Access Workbook and a preliminary business model canvas prepared for the effort by MoreBrains Consulting.

• Reflect on how sustainability models might impact trust, neutrality, and global participation, to explore mitigation strategies that address concerns.

Community Manager Ursula Rabar will share emerging participation and ethical data exchange and use guidelines for the data trust to ensure that they meet the needs of diverse OA book stakeholders and the research community at large.

Community Manager Ursula Rabar will join Data Trust Trustees Charles Watkinson, Tasha Mellins-Cohen, and Jon Elwell to discuss data sharing principles for book usage metrics.

In this session, our Executive Director will join representatives of AfricArxiv, the Publishers Association of South Africa, Wits University Press, DataCite, and ROR to discuss how multiple organizations across the OA usage data ecosystem function together to increase trust in aggregated cross-platform usage data. After a brief overview of the OA usage data supply chain, panelists will describe their organization's role in fostering trusted OA output usage data and identify future areas for collaborative development.

Christina Drummond will provide an overview of our work while inviting feedback on emerging policies and principles for data stewardship through the emerging usage data space.

Ursula Rabar reflects upon the data trust effort’s role addressing opportunities and challenges for transitioning books to Open Access.

Session 2A: Unpacking OA Usage Reporting - What Do Stakeholders Want?

In this session, Executive Director Christina Drummond will join a panel to explore what’s known, unpack open questions and lay the groundwork for future standards in this area.

Members of the OA Book Usage Data Trust team will provide an overview of our work, including emerging policies and principles for data stewardship through the emerging usage data space.

Our Community Manager, Ursula Rabar, hosts an active session on Book Usage Metric Sharing and Use Guardrails: Developing Ethical Principles and System Requirements to Protect Reader Privacy and Automate Multi-Publisher and Platform OA Book Usage Data Exchange and Aggregation.

In this session, the library publishing community will have an opportunity to provide feedback on draft ethical principles, community governance structures, and data trust participation requirements drafted by stakeholders for community review. Participants will explore the importance of book usage data stewardship practices and policies, and why high quality, granular OA book usage analytics and reports may require detailed usage data to be exchanged in controlled environments as opposed to aggregate data harvested from the public web. Issues of privacy, transparency, community governance, security will be explored while considering whether specific use and reuse limitations should exist for book usage data shared across the book publishing ecosystem.

Workshop Report Out: National Infrastructure for Public Access Usage and Impact Reporting

Christina Drummond, Charles Watkinson, and Niels Stern talk provide an overview and reflections on conversations that took place at an April 2nd workshop on Exploring National Infrastructure for Public Access Usage and Impact Reporting.

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Compiling usage and impact metrics across public and private repositories, services, and publishers is a time and data science expertise-intensive activity undertaken by individual researchers, universities, libraries, and publishers. Challenges related to reader privacy, data ownership, and trusted use confront the exchange and reuse of this data. To advance Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) research impact reporting, on April 2nd, 2023, a National Science Foundation-supported workshop brought together stakeholders to explore how best to leverage shared cyberinfrastructure to support cross-platform systems integrations and ethical data processing that addresses concerns related to artificial intelligence, machine-based aggregation and the use of scholar-specific impact data. Stakeholders advanced four strategic collaboration opportunity areas that surfaced in a November 2022 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) survey of research data organizations, specifically addressing how to facilitate economies of scale for the reporting and analysis of usage data related to publicly accessible scholarship outputs. This panel will feature perspectives on these issues from library, repository, and data platform workshop participants while providing the first summary of the workshop findings. Topics to be addressed will include: a) challenges to cross-platform public and open impact analytics at scale, b) open infrastructure opportunities to improve the FAIRness of usage data, and c) identified gaps in the national infrastructure for scholarly output impact reporting.