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More readers in more places: the benefits of open access for scholarly books Cover

More readers in more places: the benefits of open access for scholarly books

Open Access
|Dec 2021

Figures & Tables

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Figure 1

Open access books show more usage and attention through average numbers of downloads, citations and web domains

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Figure 2

Open access books depicts more downloads per book for every month since date of publication

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Figure 3

The geographic distribution of downloads for OA and non-OA books

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Figure 4

Anonymous usage from countries with no logged usage

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Figure 5

Diversity of book usage amongst countries as measured by the Gini coefficient

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Figure 6

Increases in usage for books with ‘Africa’ in the title

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.558 | Journal eISSN: 2048-7754
Language: English
Submitted on: Jun 14, 2021
Accepted on: Jul 21, 2021
Published on: Dec 1, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 issues per year

© 2021 Cameron Neylon, Alkim Ozaygen, Lucy Montgomery, Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang, Ros Pyne, Mithu Lucraft, Christina Emery, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.