Open Access to Books: The Case of the Open Access Bibliography Updated
Last July, I reported on use of the Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, which is both a printed book and a freely available e-book. Both versions are under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 License. You can get a detailed history at the prior posting; the major changes since then have been the conversion of the HTML version to XHTML and the addition of a Google Custom Search Engine.
So, what does cumulative use of the e-book OAB version look like slightly over one year down the road from the last posting? Here's a summary:
- UH PDF: 29,255 (March through May 2005)
- All Web files on both Digital Scholarship hosts: 192,849 (33,814 uses of the PDF file; June 2005 through July 2007)
- dLIST PDF: 655 (March 2005 to present)
- E-LIS PDF: 556 (November 2005 to present)
- ARL PDF: Not Available
Combined, OAB Web files have been accessed 223,315 times since March 2005.
Latest posts in Bibliographies
- Version 71, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography - March 3rd, 2008
- A Tale of Two Open Access Books - January 30th, 2008
- 2007 OAB and SEPB Use Statistics - January 22nd, 2008
Latest posts in E-Prints
- Repository Interface for Overlaid Journal Archives: Results from an Online Questionnaire Survey - April 10th, 2008
- College & Research Libraries Makes Preprints Available, but Restricts Access - March 22nd, 2008
- Microsoft Developing Authoring Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007 with NLM DTD Support - March 22nd, 2008
Latest posts in EPrints
- E-Print Preservation: SHERPA DP: Final Report of the SHERPA DP Project - January 31st, 2008
- Web 2.0 Meets EPrints: The SNEEP Project - January 7th, 2008
- Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite - January 6th, 2008
Latest posts in Open Access
- Open Access Directory, a Factual Wiki, Launched - April 30th, 2008
- Report Released: Strategies for Open and Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America - April 22nd, 2008
- Interview with Microsoft's Pablo Fernicola about Article Authoring Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007 - April 21st, 2008
Latest posts in Scholarly Books
- Further Coverage about and Commentary on the Georgia State Digital Copyright Lawsuit - April 22nd, 2008
- Georgia State Copyright Infringement Suit Coverage and Commentary - April 17th, 2008
- Association of American University Presses Issues Press Release Supporting Digital Copyright Lawsuit against Georgia State - April 16th, 2008
Latest posts in Scholarly Communication
- Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 2 - May 11th, 2008
- Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog Update (5/7/08) - May 7th, 2008
- Open Access Directory, a Factual Wiki, Launched - April 30th, 2008
Latest posts in Self-Archiving
- Interview with Microsoft's Pablo Fernicola about Article Authoring Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007 - April 21st, 2008
- Students Establish Harvard College Thesis Repository - April 15th, 2008
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