Book Analytics Service
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Whether you’re a publisher, librarian, funder, administrator, or other stakeholder in the scholarly communications community, the Dashboard can help you gain a fuller view of book usage data.
Books are made available through a multitude of different platforms, and each has its own way of providing usage statistics. Using our Dashboard gives you a single point of synthesis of usage data from a wide range of , allowing you a consolidated view of usage.
We take care to bring together a synthesis of usage data of known provenance to allow you to compare data across your chosen time span. Learn more about how we collect and .
The Dashboard was initially developed as a , which developed a prototype for gathering book usage information from multiple data sources, and combining and presenting it in interactive visualisation dashboards for publisher partners.
Funded again by the , the pilot project was scaled up to become the , focused on creating a sustainable OA book focused analytics service.
The fully-functional Dashboard is now operated by , a trusted infrastructure for OA books. OAPEN is a not-for-profit organisation which , and has committed to the with a of their practices across the themes of governance, sustainability, and insurance. OAPEN was chosen as the host organisation by the Book Analytics Dashboard (BAD) project Advisory Board, following a series of focus groups with publishers which endorsed OAPEN as an organisation which could be trusted by the community to run the Dashboard in an open and consultative way.
BAD refers to the Book Analytics Dashboard project (2022-2025), whereas BAS means the Book Analytics Service. BAD is the project to launch BAS from a functional pilot Dashboard to a self-sustaining service with appropriate governance and cost-recovery financing. As well as being key elements of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI), these are also essential in ensuring that the future of BAS does not depend on grant funding.