That's great news Christina, and the kind of information that really helps us when we have discussions with our research community about the value of OA monographs.
What would help would be some more nuanced numbers. Some of those chapters will be in edited books and some from monographs. And they will also be in different disciplines. If we could have some numbers about comparative average sales of hardcopy books in similar disciplines (of both monographs and edited books) then it starts to become a more meaningful statistic that we can use in our discussions. Regards, Danny Dr Danny Kingsley Deputy Director - Scholarly Communication & Research Services Cambridge University Library e: [email protected] p: 01223 747 437 m: 07711 500 564 On 06/09/2018, 12:00, "[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: Send GOAL mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of GOAL digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Springer Nature: 30 million downloads of open access book chapters (Christina Emery) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 14:35:09 +0000 From: Christina Emery <[email protected]> Subject: [GOAL] Springer Nature: 30 million downloads of open access book chapters To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" * Apologies for cross-posting * Dear list subscribers, We?re proud to announce that there have now been more than 30 million chapter downloads across our open access (OA) books portfolio. This includes data for 512 OA books, which works out to an average of 58,704 chapter downloads per book. >From our SpringerLink data, we can see that 44% of the downloads originated from 151 countries (other downloads were registered as anonymous users). Further information can be found on our new usage statistics webpage: https://goo.gl/VyQ1jb Best regards, Christina Emery Open Access Books Marketing Manager Open Research, Springer Nature DISCLAIMER: This e-mail is confidential and should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage mechanism. Springer Nature Limited does not accept liability for any statements made which are clearly the sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of Springer Nature Ltd or one of their agents. Please note that Springer Nature Limited and their agents and affiliates do not accept any responsibility for viruses or malware that may be contained in this e-mail or its attachments and it is your responsibility to scan the e-mail and attachments (if any). ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal End of GOAL Digest, Vol 82, Issue 4 *********************************** _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
