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The success of OAPEN and DOAB in Primo and Summon | OAPEN – supporting the transition to open access for academic books

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by Ronald Snijder

The OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) aggregate open access books and chapters, and make them globally available through several channels. We work together with many organisations, among them Ex Libris.

Ex Libris – a subsidiary of Clarivate – is a provider of library services. One of their products is the Central Discovery Index (CDI) describing many scholarly and academic sources. When the same content is available through several platforms, CDI deduplicates these records into one unified merged metadata record. It is available for libraries using Primo and Summon. The metadata of the OAPEN Library and DOAB are indexed in CDI.

Recently, we received a usage report from Ex Libris, describing how libraries worldwide interact with DOAB and OAPEN through their catalogues. We are happy to see that more than 1,500 libraries or library consortia have been using the open access books and chapters we provide. To better understand the global impact, we used the Open Alex API to find the countries where the libraries reside, and we found organisations in 118 different countries.

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Survey of repository aggregators – COAR

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“There is a growing number of national and regional repository aggregator networks that harvest metadata (and in some cases full text) from repositories and other data sources, and provide a number of services including tracking open access content, discovery of national research outputs, standardized usage statistics, and more. These aggregators often also act as important mechanisms to bring together national and regional community of repositories to help adopt good practice, define policies, and develop a shared vision for repositories. COAR and FECYT have launched a working group to support information exchange and shared problem solving for national and regional aggregators. The purpose of this survey is to identify base line practices of repository networks, and identify issues and challenges which can be addressed through this working group.

The short survey is open to all aggregators of scholarly research content from March 18 – April 10, 2020.

A summary of survey results will be shared at the end of April….”

Good Practice Exchange at Bielefeld University – People of OpenAIRE – OpenAIRE Blog

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The “Good Practice Exchange” (GPE) program of OpenAIRE is aimed to support National Open Access Desks colleagues (NOADs) and consortium members in 2020 to visit another consortium partner to exchange and learn about Open Science aspects, such as “Embedding Open Science Practices”, “Open Science Policy and its Practical Alignment in an Institutional Context”, “National Coordination of Open Science and Research Data Management”, and “Repository Operation and Metadata Management Best Practices”.?

Bielefeld University Library in Germany (UNIBI) was the first of four partners to host a GPE workshop from 4 – 5 February 2020. Because of UNIBIs role in OpenAIRE regarding the aggregation management of metadata from data sources and its transformation into the OpenAIRE research graph UNIBI was predestinated for the topic ”Repository operation and metadata management best practices”.?