2025 June 17
Evolving the preprint evaluation world with Sciety
This post is based on an interview with Sciety team at eLife.
Introduction to books and chapters
Why register books and chapters
Registration of books and chapters maximizes reference linking between books and other record types including journals and conference proceedings, and ensures that we collect and distribute persistent identifiers and authoritative metadata for online books. There are seven benefits for our members to register book- and chapter-level metadata:
- increased discoverability
- increased usage
- matching author expectations
- author exposure
- usage and citations reporting
- supporting authors with funding compliance and reporting
- understanding the hot topics within your books
You can read about each of these in more detail on our blog.
Obligations and limitations
- Follow the books metadata best practices.
- You can register books and chapters using our web deposit form or via direct deposit of XML.
Fees
In addition to annual membership dues, all records attract a one-time registration fee. There are volume discounts available for registration of book chapters and reference entries for a single title. Read about the fees.
History
Books have been supported since 2003. The Books Interest Group provides guidance and advice for developing the books metadata we collect.
Key links
- Books and chapters content metadata best practice
- How to register content via direct deposit of XML or the web deposit form.
- Books and chapters markup guide