Publishing Your Scholarly work in Open Venues Can:

• Increase the visibility and impact of research by making it discoverable online
• Allow reuse of research and research data to prevent duplication of effort
• Manage and document scholarly work to maintain integrity and save resources in the long term
• Allow students, other researchers, and the general public to access scholarship without expensive restrictions
• Allow libraries to acquire scholarly work without paying exorbitant subscription fees
• Help meet funding agency requirements (especially for federally-funded research)

When your open book is published it will be assigned a DOI,  a Digital Object Identifier.

A Digital Object Identifier (DOI or doi) creates a permanent link for an item.

All trusted scholarly publishers assign unique DOIs to individually published works and register the DOIs with Crossref, which is an official Digital Object Identifier Registration Agency.

 DOIs are increasingly used by researchers to cite/reference published works.

A DOI expands to a URL by adding http://dx.doi.org/ before the prefix. The original standard for displaying a DOI was without this component but the current DOI display guidelines require that a DOI be displayed as a full URL.