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Strand 2: Onix for OA Books by Graham Bell, Editeur
1. ONIX for OA Books
Open Access Books and the Supply Chain
Graham Bell
EDItEUR
London, 1st–2nd July 2013
2. About EDItEUR
• not-for-profit membership organisation
• develops, supports and promotes metadata
and identification standards for the book,
e-book and serials supply chains
• based in London, with a global membership
of publishers, distributors, wholesalers,
subscription agents, retailers, libraries,
system vendors, rights organizations and
trade associations
• acknowledged centre of expertise on
standards and metadata for the industry
3. About ONIX
• the key international metadata standard for
the commercial book supply chain
• widely used throughout North America,
Europe, Japan, Russia, with early
implementations in China, India and parts
of the Arabic world
• developed originally by the AAP, but the
standard is now managed by EDItEUR
• EDItEUR membership supports development
4. About ONIX
• an open standard – documentation and XML
tools free of charge, no fees payable for use,
covered by highly-permissive licence and a
transparent governance process
• supports the business needs of a wide range
of stakeholders through entire supply chain
• two versions in current use – ONIX 2.1 and
ONIX 3.0
• 2.1 is more widely deployed in UK and US
• 3.0 enables richer description of e-books
6. Issues for OA monographs
• product identification and reporting
• crediting funders
• treat funders like publishers, not like authors
• links to licences
• could be CC, or might be a bespoke licence
• free of charge products
• links between e-book and print versions
12. Status of these changes
• the small number of necessary additions
described are currently ‘proposals’
• should be ratified by ONIX national groups,
added to next revision of the codelists and the
Implementation and Best Practice Guide
• discussing potential for simple ‘OA flag’ for
marketing purposes
• licence link is workable, but a better option
is to include with UsageConstraints
• may be added to ONIX 3.0.2 (~January 2014)
