Developing a Pilot Data Trust for Open Access Ebook Usage. Building an international data trust to improve the measurement and analysis of Open Access (OA) books. Logos for University of Michigan Library, Educopia Institute, Book Industry Study Group, University of North Texas

Principal Investigator:
Kevin Hawkins (University of North Texas)

Co-Principal Investigators:
Lucy Montgomery (Curtin University)
Cameron Neylon (Curtin University)
Brian O’Leary (Book Industry Study Group)
Katherine Skinner (Educopia Institute)
Rebecca Welzenbach (University of Michigan)

Staff:
Data Trust Program Officer
Christina Drummond (Educopia Institute)

Data Science Lead
Richard Hosking (Curtin University)

Product Manager
Alkim Ozaygen (Curtin University)

Data Trust Data Scientist
Aniek Roelofs (Curtin University)

Legal Counsel
Agnes Gambill

Business Model Consultants
Murphy Mitchell Consulting Ltd.

OA Supply Chain Consultants
Clarke & Esposito

Funder:
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

2020-2021

Developing a Pilot Data Trust for Open Access Ebook Usage (subcontract)

Exploring Open Access eBook Usage (OAeBU)

This two-year project acts upon the recommendations that resulted from five years of planning, as documented within the “Exploring Open Access Ebook Usage” white paper published by the Book Industry Study Group in 2019. Through December 2021, this pilot project will develop and test infrastructure, policy and governance models to support a diverse, global data trust for usage data on open access (OA) monographs. As an international cooperative managed by the community of stakeholders in scholarly communications and operating a secure data repository and member dashboards, this data trust will be designed to align with the priorities of authors and institutions while respecting emerging ethical norms in the use of metrics. More information about the project is available within the grant narrative.

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Join the project’s discussion forums and working groups listed below to share your perspective and provide input directly to the project team and its advisors.

Stakeholder Discussion Forums

Open, public user communities for peers to discuss and inform issues relating to the project.

Working Groups

Open, public groups for those interested in working through issues pertaining to the project.

OAeBU Data Trust Policy Working Group
Purpose: discuss and develop privacy, security, and ethics principles and policy guidelines
OAeBU Data Trust Technical Norms/Standards Working Group
Purpose: suggest and discuss technical norms and standards for the data trust

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Advisory Board:
Jon Elwell (EBSCO/GOBI)
Jill Emery (Portland State University Library and COUNTER)
Eelco Ferwerda (OAPEN, OASPA, and OPERAS)
Andrew Joseph (Wits University Press)
Jo Lambert (JISC)
Roxanne Missingham (ANU Press)
Dr. Samuel Moore (Coventry University and Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM))
Peter Potter (Virginia Tech and Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME))
Ros Pyne (Springer Nature)
Wendy Queen (Project MUSE)
Gimena del Rio Riande (IIBICRIT, CONICET)
Brian Scrivener (University of Calgary Press)
John Sherer (University of North Carolina Press)
Charles Watkinson (University of Michigan Press)

Technical Advisors:
Javier Arias (Open Book Publishers)
Susan Doerr (University of Minnesota Press)
Paul Groth (University of Amsterdam)
Stefanie Haustein (University of Ottawa)
Michael Taylor (Digital Science and University of Wolverhampton)
Francesco de Virgilio (Ubiquity Press)

Educopia’s Role
As a partner on this project, Educopia is facilitating the development of a governance structure and legal architecture for the data trust, and employing the Data Trust Program Officer.