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Mon 16 Jun 2025
Updating the OAPEN Library’s metadata feeds Since the launch of the OAPEN Library in 2010, the metadata feeds for our collection of open access (OA) books and chapters have always been and will continue to be freely available for anyone to access, download, and use as they need from the OAPEN website. ...
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Tue 27 May 2025
In my previous post on our less than optimal performance of the OAPEN Library and DOAB, I wrote about the effect of AI bots on our systems, and that it has become a common problem for many sites providing open access (OA) or open source software content. All of them – including the OAPEN Library and...
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Fri 23 May 2025
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...
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Wed 21 May 2025
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...
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Thu 01 May 2025
It has been two years since OAPEN launched a dedicated collection of DFG-funded open access books. Part of this collection is supported by the DFG Open Access Publication Funding programme. To mark this occasion, OAPEN’s Funder Relations Manager, Laura Bandura-Morgan, interviewed Michael Geuenich,...
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Wed 30 Apr 2025
OAPEN, an open infrastructure for open access (OA) books, provides services to stakeholders in scholarly communications, namely, publishers, funders, libraries, and researchers. Our vision is for all scholarly books to be shared and distributed openly and fairly for the collective benefit of humanity....
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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....