Open Access books and [in]discoverability: a library perspective

Two librarians from the Latin American and Iberian Collections team at Cambridge University Library have tackled problems related to Open Access books’ metadata and accessibility. From a particular case regarding work publications by CLACSO (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, a network of 700 research institutions from 52 countries), this article points out the challenges that librarians encounter when dealing with Open Access books with poor bibliographic description. Nearly 200 CLACSO records were updated and enriched, which led to discuss the broader issues and challenges that poor-quality metadata for Open Access books imply.