Book Analytics Service

The Book Analytics Service is operated by OAPEN, and forms part of our open access books community infrastructure.

The Book Analytics Service aggregates standardised usage data from a range of sources including OAPEN, Google Books, Crossref Event Data, and JSTOR, and provides publishers with a dashboard overview. View the demo dashboard.

How the dashboard can help you

The dashboard is easy to share with colleagues and authors. Use it to help you:

  • understand usage, and how this varies by platform, subject, country, and titles
  • easily synthesise and consolidate data across a wide range of platforms, and save time on manual data collection
  • inform publishing decisions
  • explain the value of open access publishing to authors and funders.

“Implementing the dashboard for Big Ten Open Books has been essential to our project’s success and has helped the broader academic community to realize how impactful Humanities scholarship can be when made open access.” - Kate McCready, Big Ten Academic Alliance

Don’t just take our word for it - read more Book Analytics Service testimonials

Service levels

Service levelsStandardStandard PlusExtra add-ons
OA book dashboard and telescope developmentXXX
Hosting and computeXXX
MaintenanceXXX
UpgradesXXX
Help desk (5 hours per year)XXX
Onboarding and introductory trainingXXX
Personalised branding (colours, fonts, logos) XX
Metadata format conversion X
Addition of new prospective data sources/new telescopes (including retrospective data where applicable; depending on staff capacity) X
Additional dashboards X
Quarterly/semi-annual report X

Pricing

Pricing tiers are based on publishers’ total publishing revenue or expenses. The table shows annual costs per dashboard (in $ USD) excluding VAT:

$ USD millionStandard, Y1Standard, Y2+Standard PlusExtra add-ons
< 1$ 8,000$ 5,000As Standard plus a nonrecurring $ 1,100 (10h) for brandingUpon request
1-5$ 8,000$ 5,000As Standard plus a nonrecurring $ 1,100 (10h) for brandingUpon request
5-10$ 10,000$ 6,000As Standard plus a nonrecurring $ 1,100 (10h) for brandingUpon request
10-25$ 11,000$ 6,500As Standard plus a nonrecurring $ 1,100 (10h) for brandingUpon request
25-50$ 11,500$ 7,000As Standard plus a nonrecurring $ 1,100 (10h) for brandingUpon request
50-100$ 13,000$ 8,000As Standard plus a nonrecurring $ 1,100 (10h) for brandingUpon request
100-200$ 15,000$ 9,000As Standard plus a nonrecurring $ 1,100 (10h) for brandingUpon request
200-500$ 16,500$ 10,000As Standard plus a nonrecurring $ 1,100 (10h) for brandingUpon request
> 500$ 40,000$ 25,000As Standard plus a nonrecurring $ 1,100 (10h) for brandingUpon request

Philanthropic funders for a publishers’ collective: Upon request.

Which publishers are already involved?

How can I participate?

Get started by contacting us for an initial conversation.

You can also explore our documentation, and learn more about OAPEN’s Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) self-audit and independence (we can’t be sold).

Background to the Book Analytics Dashboard project

Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Book Analytics Dashboard project (2022-2025) is focused on creating a sustainable OA book focused analytics service.

Logos of the BAD Project partners: the Mellon Foundation, Curtin University, OAPEN, Educopia