{"id":2404,"date":"2020-09-14T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2024-04-16T11:31:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T18:31:05","slug":"oa-books-greater-usage-and-higher-citations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/2020\/09\/14\/oa-books-greater-usage-and-higher-citations\/","title":{"rendered":"OA books &#8211; greater usage and higher citations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Springer Nature | September 10, 2020<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the white paper here: <a href=\"https:\/\/group.springernature.com\/in\/group\/media\/press-releases\/white-paper-diversifying-readership-through-open-access\/18364402\">https:\/\/group.springernature.com\/in\/group\/media\/press-releases\/white-paper-diversifying-readership-through-open-access\/18364402<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3752,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}