Open access promotes sales

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Open access promotes sales

This is interesting. 23,000 % increase in sales after open access is granted?

Granted it's Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, &c. but still, two of their films were about the ancient world (more or less): Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) and Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), and they engaged archaology from time to time: Archaeology Today; and enjoyed a sophisticated argument; and poked fun at the academy at home and abroad - not too different from lots of people I know. In any case a 23,000 % increase in sales after granting open access is a nice benchmark.

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AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University

AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.

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