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Fri 11 Apr 2025
The catchphrase ‘computer says no‘ is something most of us are familiar with; it’s frustrating when an digital system is not behaving the way we want. Lately, at OAPEN and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) we are experiencing something else that might be described as ‘computers...
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Tue 08 Apr 2025
This is a guest post written by the SCOAP3 Team, mirrored on the SCOAP3 website. The SCOAP3 for books program aims to support the open access (OA) publishing of new (“born-OA”) scientific monographs and textbooks that are relevant to the discipline of high energy physics (i.e. in the field of Physics,...
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Mon 24 Feb 2025
This is a guest post written by Malavika Legge, Program Manager at OASPA. In October 2024, a collaborative online-session for publishers from East Africa was co-organised by the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and OAPEN, along with the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), and French...
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Tue 14 Jan 2025
We are all aware of bibliodiversity: the idea that different communities have specific needs which should also be reflected in their publications. In other words, while a standardisation based on a concentration of publishers seems efficient, we should also enable a more diverse publishing landscape....
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Mon 09 Dec 2024
This week, we will be migrating the OAPEN Library and Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) servers from their current provider to CERN’s Data Center (as announced earlier this year). This move will improve the operational reliability and efficiency of services for the OAPEN Library and DOAB. At the...
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Mon 09 Dec 2024
OAPEN and Lyrasis build greater access to digital content using the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) standard to create interoperability between content providers and reading applications. The Hague, Netherlands, 9 December 2024 – OAPEN and Lyrasis are happy to announce the implementation...
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Thu 10 Oct 2024
The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford recently became a premium OAPEN Library and DOAB supporter. Silke Davison, Community Manager, interviewed David Watson, the Bodleian’s open monograph project officer about their engagement with OA books and why they chose to become one of our supporters....
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Tue 08 Oct 2024
This blog follows the participation of Silke Davison, Community Manager, in the opening discussion panel, ‘Who cares about equity? How different stakeholders of the open access scholarly publishing landscape approach equity’ at the 2024 OASPA Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, from 16-18 September. OAPEN...
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Thu 03 Oct 2024
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...
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Thu 05 Sep 2024
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...