Additional data in the ISBNs and Author list output
Area Impacted:
Title Manager
Request Summary:
We would like to see some additional data included in the ISBNs and Author list output:
- all of the contributors to a book (so those not ticked to include in the ONIX/on the web as well as those ticked)
- add columns for affiliation and country (currently resides in)
- include role descriptions as well as or instead of the role codes
Description/Use Cases:
Our international sales colleagues often ask us for numbers or percentage of contributors to books for their areas for specific sales collections (for example our yearly ebook collection). They are interested in individual chapter contributors as well as book authors/editors.
We also report to our editorial boards on the geographic spread of our contributors, which will give a fuller picture if it includes all contributors.
Where some larger incident occurs (eg the recent shutdown of US government operations) it is useful to be able to generate a list of contributors of books in development, to see whether any of them are at institutions or countries likely to be impacted.
Impact of limitation or missing feature:
We are not currently aware of any way to choose a set books and extract the contributor information, including country and affiliation, for just those books. If there is a better way of doing it than this suggestion we would be open to ideas.
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