Citation and Global Impacts of the Open Access Book Model

The Authority File

In the third episode of this four-part series, Janaki Srinivasan, Associate Professor in Digital South Asian Studies at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies and the Oxford Internet Institute, and Amy Harris, Senior Manager of Library Relations and Sales at MIT Press, discuss the citation and global impacts of the open access book model. First, Janaki, author of The Political Lives of Information, discusses the central idea of her book—the right to information—and how that aligns with open publishing. Next, Amy highlights the benefits of Direct to Open (D2O) that authors continue to find in relation to their field, while Janaki shares how open publishing has helped her book reach non-Western audiences, particularly those in India who are affected by her research topic. To close, Amy chats about the citation advantages of open books over paywalled content. Looking at more than six years of D2O data, Amy details increased citation diversity with significant benefits for Humanities and Social Sciences titles.

Read the latest impact report from MIT Press’s Direct to Open (D2O).

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