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Tue 27 Oct 2026

OAPEN and DOAB service migration: final stage

We are glad to announce that our service migration, which we have been working towards over the last several months, is approaching its final stage. This is the transition previously mentioned in our weekly service updates. Starting on Wednesday 28 October 2026, the following services will be migrated: ...
Wed 21 Oct 2026

AI, Open Access and Shared Responsibilities: Reflections from Open-Access-Tage 2026

When we first started discussing the plan of organising a workshop on AI and Open Access, one thing became clear very quickly: no single organisation can see the whole picture. At OAPEN and DOAB, we have been grappling with questions around AI crawlers, content reuse, discoverability, metadata...
Wed 15 Jul 2026

OAPEN goes to Switzerland: A visit to our partner CERN

Riding a heat wave The OAPEN Tech team met with the Open Science (OS) teams at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, on the 25th and 26th of June. After rebuilding the team following several staffing changes in the latter half of 2025, it...
Tue 07 Jul 2026

Meet the DOAB & OAPEN Ambassadors: An Interview with Melissa Chim, Ambassador for the USA

Melissa Chim is Scholarly Communications Librarian at Excelsior University in New York, United States of America. Hear what she had to say about joining the ambassador programme. What motivated you to join DOAB as an ambassador? I have been working in the Open Education space for about five years now,...
Wed 01 Jul 2026

Better Publishing Through Open Metadata: Strengthening Open Infrastructure for Open Access Books through the Thoth–OAPEN SWORD Workflow

By Hannah Hillen, Ross Higman, Toby Steiner, Anna Wałek, Wiktor Florian, Vaggelis Theodorakopoulos, and Hanna Varachkina Open access (OA) books depend on more than open licences. They rely on the infrastructures that move publications across the scholarly communications landscape: from publisher workflows...
Wed 24 Jun 2026

OAPEN goes to Poland: May conference highlights and takeaways

May was a busy month for the OAPEN team who were active at several conferences, all in Poland. In this blog post, we share some of the highlights and what came from our involvement in them. PCG Academic Conference From 12-13 May, members of the OAPEN Tech Team participated in...
Fri 19 Jun 2026

Guest Post: Making Open Access Books Visible – OAPEN Featured in the Online Event Series “This Is How We Do It”

This guest blog post is written by Stefanie Westphal from the Max Weber Foundation. A German version of the post is available on the SeDOA website. As part of the online event series This Is How We Do It: International Best Practices for Diamond Open Access, the OAPEN Foundation presented its work...
Tue 16 Jun 2026

Traffic management and bot protection for the OAPEN Library and DOAB: Implementing Cloudflare and Anubis

Over the past few years, the nature of internet traffic has shifted fundamentally. What was once predominantly human-driven web is now increasingly shaped by automated activity. Recent data from CERN indicates that bots now generate the majority of web...
Tue 05 May 2026

Strengthening Diamond OA for books: OAPEN’s role in the AEGIS-OA project

The AEGIS-OA (Activate European Guidance and Incentives for Sustainable Open Access publishing) project is working to strengthen institutional, non-profit open access (OA) publishing across Europe by leveraging and expanding the services of the European Diamond...
Thu 09 Apr 2026

Update on platform stability: Our continuous effort to protect community access

Aggressive content-harvesting bots and automated systems are generating increased traffic to open infrastructure platforms and library repositories, creating a community-wide challenge. This activity places significant strain on open platforms, affecting normal operations and services...

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