11.12.2019
The Open-Factor: Toward Impact-Aligned Measures of Open-Access eBook Usage
« A statistical analysis of usage data for open-access ebooks from two different publishers and from a free ebook distribution platform indicates that open-access ebook usage is distributed following log-normal statistics, and meaningful analysis results after calculating the logarithm of the download counts. To assess usage impact from raw usage data in alignment with the goals of open-access ebook publishing, future impact analyses should use logarithm-based metrics to measure an “open-factor”. (…) »
source > quod.lib.umich.edu, E. S. Hellman, 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0022.104
