OAPEN
Online library of open access books
OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. We work with publishers to build a quality-controlled collection of open access books and provide services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.
Forthcoming event attendance
Come meet us in person at these conferences. This is a rolling list and as new conferences and events are added older ones will be removed, so make sure to check back regularly!
Welcoming publishers and library supporters - Q2 2025
We are grateful to the following libraries and consortia who have either supported us for the first time or continued their long-time support; and to the following publishers who want to make their OA books more discoverable and the latest research available around the world by being part of the OAPEN Library and DOAB.
OAPEN Library hosts new Big Ten Open Books collection on Indigenous North Americans
The Hague, 10 September 2025 OAPEN is pleased to announce continued support for Big Ten Open Books by hosting its latest collection in the OAPEN Library, making a new range of high-quality, open access books available to readers worldwide.
Change of technical leadership at OAPEN and DOAB
Shortly after the launch of the OAPEN project back in 2008, I remember that the project coordinator, Eelco Ferwerda at Amsterdam University Press (AUP) introduced a new colleague to the project: Ronald Snijder. Ronald was the Project Supervisor Digital Publications at AUP and introduced to support the...
A book is a book in any other markup language
Updating the OAPEN Library’s metadata feeds Since the launch of the OAPEN Library in 2010, the metadata feeds for our collection of open access (OA) books and chapters have always been and will continue to be freely available for anyone to access, download, and use as they need from the OAPEN website. ...
OAPEN
OA Books Toolkit
