[GOAL] GOAL Digest, Vol 82, Issue 4

[Danny Kingsley]

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
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    From: Christina Emery <Christina.Emery at springernature.com>
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    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 
    
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    Christina Emery
    
    Open Access Books Marketing Manager
    Open Research, Springer Nature
    
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