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 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.
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Principal Investigators
- Christina Drummond, University of North Texas
- Paolo Manghi, OpenAIRE
- 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
- Niels Stern, OAPEN and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
- Peter Potter, Towards an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)
- Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Project COUNTER
- Vivian Berghahn – Berghahn Books
Project’s Vision
Community Governed Sharing of Quality, Interoperable, Open Access (OA) Book Usage Data
Mission:
To champion strategies for the improved publication and management of open-access books by exchanging reliable usage data in a trusted, equitable, and community-governed way.