Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the Open Access (OA) initiative supporting monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences, has announced the launch of geolocation data for its Open Access ebooks.
There are always concerns whether a university library is investing in the right content. Yet, how to capture credible usage data in an Open Access environment where patrons can read from anywhere? This issue has been addressed by combining the usage from researchers within the IP range of the library with COUNTER-compliant geolocation data. Thus, you can assess downloads of books that have been unlatched in an easy way.
The geolocation data allows for more specific observation of the usage of KU's content. Moreover, KU can now reveal the further download figures for Pilot and Round 2 titles that have been unlatched. Overall, there have been 131,064 downloads of the Pilot and Round 2 titles in at least 180 countries. These COUNTER-compliant statistics are from the OAPEN platform. This averages to 1,205 downloads per book. In addition, HathiTrust, KU's other official host, has reported a further 9,312 individual page views for books in the Pilot and Round 2 collections.
Libraries who supported the unlatching of the Pilot and Round 2 titles receive their own institutional usage statistics report based on their IP addresses at http://app.knowledgeunlatched.org
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