KU Open Services
Achieve Greater Impact For Your OA Titles
Why is this useful?
As a publisher that is not in the position to, or has no experience with OA title distribution, with KU Open Services benefit from a streamlined and hassle-free OA distribution. Increase impact by discoverability, because impact matters for OA as much as for paywalled content.
What is included?
With KU Open Services you get: best of breed hosting, easy importing of title data into library catalogues, easy de-duplication to reduce double dipping, detailed usage data reports, availability of your titles in the leading OA databases of your preference.
Quarterly usage reports
We make usage reports for you! Track the impact of your publications, share usage reports with your authors, demonstrate the impact of Open Access to institutions, get precise insights (not only based on IP-ranges) on where your title has been accessed, and see complete regional or international usage of your content outside of libraries.
Get Your OA Book Hosted, Archived,
Indexed, And Discovered
Established Hosting Partners
Archiving
Library Indexing Service
Implementation Discovery System
Established Hosting Partners
BiblioLabs
JSTOR
MUSEOpen
OAPEN
Unglue.it
Archiving
CLOCKKS
Portico
Library Indexing Service
High quality MARC Records for every title in partnership with OCLC
Direct push notification to 500+ libraries
Implementation Discovery System
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ - journals)
EBSCO Discovery Service
EBSCO Knowledge Base
Ex Libris 360 Knowledge Base/Knowledge Works
Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund Verbundzentrale (GBV)
Google Books / Scholar
OCLC Knowledge Base
OCLC Worldcat
Paperhive
Serials Solutions
Summon/Alma Discovery
Ubiquity Press (journals)