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The University of Worcester joins Open Book Publishers' Library Membership Scheme

The University of Worcester joins Open Book Publishers' Library Membership Scheme

> At the University of Worcester we’re delighted to be able to support the Open Book Publishers (OBP) programme. Our values are intellectual openness, democracy and love of learning; they are symbolised by our joint public/university library The Hive and our involvement in diamond Open Access initiatives such as

COUNTER Metrics: An Unsatisfactory Measurement of a University’s Usage of Open Access Books

COUNTER Metrics: An Unsatisfactory Measurement of a University’s Usage of Open Access Books

We explain our concerns about COUNTER statistics as a measure of the usage of Open Access digital resources by members of a university library—and particularly when they are compared with similar statistics for ‘closed access’ and paywalled content.