Allow co-publishing

[ja573]

We currently only allow one imprint per book. ONIX does allow co-publishing, and we've been asked about this by a couple of publishers in the past

[ja573]

We've decided this is out of scope

[amandasramalho]

Just a comment about that:
Considering Latin America, around 3,000 books (8%) of books a year are co-published with publishers from the region. This is something that will certainly be in demand in the future.
Source: Page 11 - https://editorial.urosario.edu.co/cartografia-edicion-academica

[ja573]

Just a comment about that: Considering Latin America, around 3,000 books (8%) of books a year are co-published with publishers from the region. This is something that will certainly be in demand in the future. Source: Page 11 - https://editorial.urosario.edu.co/cartografia-edicion-academica

What does that entail in terms of metadata? Are they co-published as each publisher produces the same book with different ISBNs etc. or do they simultaneously make available the same book with exactly the same everything?

[amandasramalho]

As far as I can remember, I usually see both publishers publishing the same book, but each has adopted its own ISBN for both the printed and digital versions. All the metadata is the same.
Example:
The book, "O hospício da casa vermelha", is co-edited by Editora Fiocruz and Editora Unifesp. Both publishers are on SciELO, but the book is only listed in the Editora Fiocruz collection. If you search for the book's ISBN, there are four numbers, two for each publisher.

From a metadata perspective, incorporating a field for co-publishers would prevent duplication of book records in the system while enabling the same record to be featured in the collections of multiple publishers.

In the context of SciELO Books, if a book is co-published with another organisation that is also indexed in SciELO, it currently only appears in the collection of the publisher that submitted it for indexing. It does not appear in the collection of the other co-publisher due to a technical limitation of the metadata, as this was not initially foreseen.