Book Metadata for an Open Access World :  OA-META: Open Metadata-Management for Scientific Book Publications

Most book and monograph publications still lack visibility within an electronic environment due to missing digitalized and persistent bibliographic data and/or fragmentary portability or interoperability based on the variety of formats, resulting in a more error-prone, non-standardized communication between various indexing systems and platforms. But books that cannot be discovered will not be read. OA metadata for books is essential for the transformation of the whole scholarly landscape, and one of its greatest advantages is full, immediate accessibility. ¹

The point of origin for the OA META project was the realization that available book metadata (i.e. ONIX/MARC records) was not primarily created for the usage of indexing within an electronic research environment. Consequentially, both detail and focus of elements tagged in datasets are not necessarily selected to output solidified and persistent book records. The question was how to enrich or edit available metadata so that it can unfold its greatest impact in an e-context.

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Title: ScienceOpen Posters

Publisher: ScienceOpen

Publication date (Electronic preprint): 6 October 2021

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[1 ] ScienceOpen GmbH, Berlin, Germany

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[* ]Email: nina.tscheke@ 123456scienceopen.com .

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Nina Tscheke https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0583-4325

Stephanie Dawson https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2298-2418

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DOI: 10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-.PPO7ZXU.v1

SO-VID: b6abfa5c-2f24-4133-904a-689b5c896b8d

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Date received : 6 October 2021

Data availability: The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

ScienceOpen disciplines: Communication networks,Databases,Education & Public policy,Data structures & Algorithms,Industrial organization,Networking & Internet architecture

Keywords: OA metadata,OA transformation,open access,books,monographs,book publishing

References

Böhm David, Grossmann Alexander, Reiche Michael, Schrader Antonia. Open-Access-Publikationsworkflow Für akademische Bücher. 2020. HTWK Leipzig / OA-HVerlag. [Cross Ref]

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[1] Böhm David, Grossmann Alexander, Reiche Michael, Schrader Antonia. Open-Access-Publikationsworkflow Für akademische Bücher. 2020. HTWK Leipzig / OA-HVerlag. [Cross Ref]