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.
The OAPEN Library has been experiencing a concerning amount of activity from AI bots, which has been increasing in frequency over the last few months and shows no sign of stopping. This activity can cause our service to respond slower than usual, and sometimes time out. We are working closely with our hosting partner, CERN, to resolve the issues and find a long term solution. You can read more about this in our recent blog.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused to our stakeholders and users and thank you for your continued patience with us as we navigate this new challenge and strive to continue to provide you with reliable access to the OAPEN Library collection.
OAPEN and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) have published a joint 2024 Highlights report, detailing their activities and achievements in 2024. This revised version of the report, which replaces the previous format of stakeholder reports, is intended to inform OAPEN and DOAB’s stakeholders about their activities and achievements which they supported throughout the year.
Come meet us in person at these conferences in 2025. We will be adding to this list if our attendance at additional conferences emerges, so make sure to check back regularly!
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 libraries who want to make OA books more discoverable and the latest research available around the world by being part of the OAPEN Library and DOAB.
Open access (OA) policy information is increasing, as more funders, publishers, and institutions continue to develop OA book specific policies. Two resources aggregating OA book policy information include the PALOMERA Knowledge Base and the Jisc open policy finder (formerly Sherpa services). The Knowledge...
On 6 December 2024, we announced that we entered a partnership collaboration with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to provide a set of dedicated services for its funded open access (OA) books. Under the terms of this partnership collaboration, it was agreed that all OA books supported by UKRI...
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.
