Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Metadata Challenges and Open Community Solutions for Open Access Books

2026/03/10 by Hannah Hillen, Rupert Gatti, Emma Booth · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Decision Sciences · #Academic Publishing and Open Access #Digital Humanities and Scholarship #Publishing and Scholarly Communication

paper · doi:10.5281/zenodo.18936761

openalex publication_date 2026/03/10 · openalex created_date 2026/03/11 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11

Abstract

Presentation delivered at the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group Conference 2026, the theme of which was #MetaFutures. Held on Wednesday 11 - Friday 13 March 2026, the presentation was delivered on Day Two (Thursday 12 March, 15:40 - 16:00).

Discussions

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