At the start of the project (1 November 2020, the ERC collection in the OAPEN Library contained 348 titles; at the end of the project (31 Oceober 2022) it contained 467 titles. Therefore, the total number of titles had increased by 119 titles (34%). The number of publications stemming from research funded by grants in the H2020 framework, showed the most impressive growth with 98 titles (from 76 on 1 November 2020 to 174 on 31 October 2022).
The total number of COUNTER conformant downloads of the collection within the reporting period is 533,245.
The most downloaded titles are listed below, followed by the number of downloads. As can be seen from the results, the subjects of those books vary widely.
1. How the World Changed Social Media (54,673)
2. Pentecostalism and Witchcraft (14,441)
3. History and Religion: Narrating a Religious Past (12,973)
4. The Politics of Evidence (11,113)
5. Code-switching Between Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives (10,759)
The collection has been downloaded by readers residing in 230 named countries or regions. The top 10 consists of United States; United Kingdom; India; Germany; Philippines; Australia; Canada; Italy; France and the Netherlands. Readers from these countries are responsible for 57% of the total amount of downloads; there is a “long tail” of many more countries and regions with a smaller usage percentage.
An important result of the project is the OAPEN usage statistics dashboard service, providing usage data to publishers hosted by the OAPEN, supporting libraries (libraries who support OAPEN through a membership programme), and research funders that we provide services to (collection management). The ERC is one of these funders and we have been testing, coordinating and improving the service in close collaboration with ERCEA. The service went live during the project and is described in detail in the deliverable D4.1.
In coordination with ERCEA, OAPEN hosted a webinar titled 'How to ensure your books and chapters resulting from your ERC project fulfil your funder's requirements' saw 162 registrants, 96 of which participated in the webinar on the day itself. The participants had the opportunity to ask any questions they had to the presenters of OAPEN and the ERCEA guest speaker present. The live webinar was recorded and access to the recording of the webinar (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V6ItNMw2h8&feature=youtu.be(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)) was shared with ERC researchers as part of a researcher targeted communication kit (D6.2). The webinar sparked more deposits from grantees and was therefore evaluated as a positive event increasing the number of books in the ERC collection.
Throughout the project, OAPEN has been communicating actively (at conferences and workshops and via social media and short articles), about the project and its results according to the communication plan (D6.1). This has led to a lot of positive interactions with important stakeholders in the field.
