OAPEN funder services

OAPEN provides a range of services to support research funders in implementing open access policies for academic books. These services are designed to ensure that funded publications are openly available, widely disseminated, and preserved long term.

Working in collaboration with publishers, research institutions, and trusted platforms, OAPEN offers dedicated infrastructure to help meet open access requirements, enhance discoverability, and provide transparent reporting on usage and compliance.

Key services include:

  • Policy compliance support: We work with you to create guidance for researchers and publishers to comply with your specific OA mandates.
  • Flexible aggregation and quality assurance: We accommodate multiple workflows for depositing your funded publications in the OAPEN Library and support third party workflows.
  • Hosting and preservation: Built on DSpace and hosted by CERN, the OAPEN Library ensures stable infrastructure and long-term preservation, through partnerships with trusted services like Portico and CLOCKSS.
  • Persistent identifiers: Our metadata supports best practices and enhances records by including DOIs, ORCID iDs, and funder IDs (e.g., ROR, Crossref Funder Registry).
  • Global dissemination: We offer daily metadata feeds in a variety of formats to ensure the widest possible distribution to libraries and discovery platforms, including ProQuest (Serials Solutions), Ex Libris (Primo Central), EBSCO Discovery Service, WorldCat (OCLC), BASE, and Europeana. View all our available metadata formats.
  • Inclusion in DOAB and transparent peer review: Titles that meet the licensing criteria are automatically added to the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). Additional transparency on peer review practices of publishers may also be available through the Peer Review Information Service for Monographs (PRISM).
  • Branded collection and dedicated funder webpage: We create a custom collection within the OAPEN Library and dedicated webpage showcasing your funded publications and your OA book funding programme.
  • Usage monitoring and compliance reporting: We provide you with robust monthly analytics through a personalised COUNTER-compliant, OAPEN Library Dashboard (based on Release 5). This helps to facilitate usage tracking, grant monitoring, and impact reporting. Preview the dashboard in this short demo video. The OPERAS Metrics widget also provides unique item requests for individual books in the OAPEN Library.
  • Communications activities: We announce the collaboration and provide you with additional opportunities to promote the collection, including in blog posts, newsletters, interviews, and other outreach.

Contact

Interested in building a collection? Contact Laura Bandura-Morgan, Funder Relations Manager: l.bandura[@]oapen.org for more information about contracts and fees.