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.
We’re delighted to share with you our OAPEN and DOAB 2023 Stakeholder Report! The report provides details on how both OAPEN and DOAB developed in 2023 as we remained committed to achieving our mission to increase discoverability and trust for OA books, and provide open infrastructure services in support of publishers, research funders, and libraries. Download 2023 Stakeholder Report.
We’re delighted to share with you our OAPEN and DOAB 2023 Stakeholder Report! The report provides details on how both OAPEN and DOAB developed in 2023 as we remained committed to achieving our mission to increase discoverability and trust for OA books, and provide open infrastructure services in support of publishers, research funders, and libraries.
The Hague, 30th of September 2024 - On the day that marked its fourth anniversary, OAPEN Foundation has relaunched an improved and enriched version of its Open Access (OA) Books Toolkit as part of the EU-funded PALOMERA project.
“I would like to thank all the PALOMERA project partners that worked with us to improve the toolkit” - says Niels Stern, Managing Director of the OAPEN Foundation and Scientific Coordinator of the PALOMERA project - “Their engagement and hard work made it possible to improve what was already a very successful tool in the scholarly books community”.
As of the 30th of September 2024, the updated and rebranded OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit will be online and users will be able to enjoy the new content, functionality and revamped design. During the month of October, the social media campaign #OAbookstoolkit will highlight some of the most prominent new features, encouraging researchers, librarians, and policymakers to engage with it, especially during the Open Access Week (21-27 October).
Finally, the renewed toolkit will be presented, live via online streaming and in person, at the final conference of the PALOMERA project, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on the 28th October, at the presence of some 100 attendees, amongst project partners, funding institutions, policymakers, and research performing organisations.
by Gali Halevi, Collections Director for the CLOCKSS archive and Ronald Snijder, CTO and Head of Research at OAPEN In the digital age, ensuring the long-term preservation and accessibility of academic and scholarly books is more crucial than ever. Partnership between CLOCKSS and the OAPEN Foundation...
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is an independent, not-for-profit index of peer-reviewed open access books. Our current collection consists of 86,000+ titles from 750+ publishers and in 100+ languages. Lately, we have received feedback on a disruption to DOAB, noticing the...
The OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit aims to help book authors to better understand open access book publishing and to increase trust in open access books. You will be able to find relevant articles on open access book publishing following the research lifecycle, by browsing frequently asked questions or by searching with keywords.
