Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the Open Access (OA) initiative supporting monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and BiblioLabs, the software company that has built BiblioBoard, an end-to-end platform for the creation, curation and distribution of OA materials, have announced a partnership to improve mobile and browser-based access to a growing library of KU content.
The project will also measure the wider impact and usage of OA materials by cross-promoting KU titles and leveraging BiblioLabs' robust usage tracking infrastructure that captures key data points without compromising the anonymity of readers. While KU will continue to host its titles on the OAPEN and HathiTrust platforms, it will expand the hosting of the entire collection to a KU Cloud Library built on the BiblioBoard technology. Anyone can gain access to the collections on an award-winning technology platform, which is integrated with a robust Tableau-based data warehouse to measure high-level and more granular impacts around the world.
Continued study of usage and impact will be under the auspices of KU Research led by Associate Professor Lucy Montgomery of Curtin University, Australia. The entire Open Access e-book collection can be accessed and used through BiblioBoard Public Access.
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