OA book stakeholders are working through the Data Trust effort to develop project teams and pursue funding support for the following projects.
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Advancing to Launch by Developing IDS Governance Building Blocks
July 2022-June 2025
Sponsored by the Mellon Foundation
This project aims to formalize the Data Trust effort’s community-governance mechanisms, quantify data trust participation benefits in terms of an ROI, and understand the full operational costs related to an international data space for OA book usage. . In addition to establishing mechanisms to coordinate global community governance, infrastructure and stakeholder engagement, a scalable budgetary model will be created. Most importantly, community workshops and consultations will be facilitated to create a multilateral data-processing and stewardship rule book for the OA book usage data trust participation. Project outputs will pave the way for: 1) the transparent, trusted processing of open and privileged usage data, 2) streamlined usage data aggregation, and 3) ethical usage data benchmarking.
Read the prospectus, project announcements and outputs.
Principal Investigators
Christina Drummond, University of North Texas
Prodromos Tsiavos (2023-Current); Paolo Manghi, OpenAIRE (2022)
Yannick Legré, OPERAS
Advisory Board Members
Brian O’Leary, Book Industry Study Group (BISG)
Charles Watkinson, University of Michigan Press
Jo Lambert, JISC Usage Statistics Portal and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics (IRUS-UK)
Jon Elwell, EBSCO
Maria Zucker, De Gruyter (thru August 2023)
Niels Stern, OAPEN and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
Peter Potter, TOME Project then De Gruyter (after August 2023)
Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Project COUNTER (thru April 2024)
Vivian Berghahn - Berghahn Books
Technical IDS Pilots
Organizations that generate COUNTER-compliant book usage data are sought to pilot this first International Data Space (IDS) for scholarly communications. Through 2025, pilot partners will test whether an IDS can create economies of scale and trust for the multi-platform exchange of COUNTER compliant open access (OA) scholarly book usage data at the title and chapter level. Publishers, presses, libraries, and hosting platforms are invited to be among the first to onboard and explore how participating in an IDS can generate internal value.
Technical pilot partners that join prior to July 2024 will be invited to participate in a study to understand their own institutional value of participation. Expected positive outcomes include more efficient usage data governance, sharing, and aggregation; streamlined identity and access management; clearer data provenance; and enhanced data sharing and use accountability.
Learn more with this infosheet.