A comparison of an open access university press with traditional presses: Two years later

Rory Mcgreal, Nian Shing Chen, Tim Mcnamara

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    Abstract

    This study is a comparison of AUPress with three other traditional (non-open access) Canadian university presses. The analysis is based on the rankings that are correlated with book sales on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca. Statistical methods include the sampling of the sales ranking of randomly selected books from each press. The results of one-way ANOVA analyses show that there is no significant difference in the ranking of printed books sold by AUPress in comparison with traditional university presses. However, AUPress, can demonstrate a significantly larger readership for its books as evidenced by the number of downloads of the open electronic versions.

    Original languageEnglish
    Publication statusPublished - 2012
    Event16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, ELPUB 2012 - Guimaraes, Portugal
    Duration: 14 Jun. 201215 Jun. 2012

    Conference

    Conference16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, ELPUB 2012
    Country/TerritoryPortugal
    CityGuimaraes
    Period14/06/1215/06/12

    Keywords

    • OA
    • Open access
    • Open publishing
    • University press

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