Springer Nature | September 10, 2020
A new Springer Nature study indicates that open access (OA) books have a far greater regional reach, greater usage, and higher citation counts than non-OA books.
It shows that OA books have substantially more readers in low-income and lower-middle-income countries and that OA also helps to increase attention to scholarship about these countries. The study is to date the largest and most comprehensive of its kind; the underlying dataset is based on 3,934 books published by Springer Nature, including 281 OA books.
Read the white paper here: https://group.springernature.com/in/group/media/press-releases/white-paper-diversifying-readership-through-open-access/18364402
