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The Open-Factor: Toward impact-aligned measures of open-access ebook usage | Eric S. Hellman | 2019

Organizations that optimize this Open Access-factor rather than downloads will avoid being slaves to virality and the radicalization that results from using a measurement (download count) that values the extremes that result from exponentiation of a book’s qualities.

Published Feb 07, 2020

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