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Open Access Ebooks (Part 1)

Introduction

Welcome, reader of Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices! And thanks for visiting Unglue.it to complete this survey, part of a research project to understand how open access ebooks are discovered and how readers use them. For more information, please see the project description.

As Open Access publishers, Open Book Publishers are truly committed to making academic research broadly accessible - so we want to understand how people like you are actually accessing and using our Open Access titles.

We have a bunch of questions for you (well - only 10 actually) about how you found this book and what you’re going to do with it. Please tell us the things you think are interesting or relevant. We really want to know!

[Privacy policy: There are no marketing traps, we’re not going to spy on you or swamp you with emails afterwards, or tell our “friends” about you - we’re just going to store your answers to create a database of usage examples that can be used to understand what Open Access publishing enables. A report of the results will be made available in July 2017 ]

1. How did you find out about this book in the first place?

For example: Was it from a Google search? Following a wikipedia link? A tweet? Referenced in another book? A late night session with a friend? - or in some other way?

2. How did you get hold of this particular copy? For example: Did you download it from the publisher's website? Amazon or another retailer? Find it on academia.edu? Or somewhere like aaaaarg? Get it from a friend? Your library?

3. Why are you interested in this book?

For personal use - I’m interested in the topic
For my job - it relates to what I do
I need to read it for a course
If other, tell us more...
Other...

4. Are you aware that this title is available in multiple different digital and printed formats?

Yes
No
If Yes - is there any particular reason why you are using this version rather than one of the others?

5. What are you going to do with it now you have it?

Save it, in case I need to use it in the future
Skim through it and see if it’s at all interesting
There’s only really a section/chapter I’m interested in - I’ll probably just read that
The whole book looks fascinating - I’m going to read it all!
I’m going to adapt it and use it (or, at least, parts of it) for another purpose (eg a student coursepack, lecture/briefing notes …)
Share it with my friends
Print it out
I’m creating/collating a (online) library
Something else entirely ….
Please tell us in more detail: