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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...
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Wed 03 Apr 2024
Do you happen to be interested in Estonia; Antarctica; Ancient (Classical) Greek; the time period c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period); Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000; Publishing and book trade; Public international law: criminal law; Pharmacology; Rehabilitation: brain and spinal injuries; Colonialism...
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Wed 27 Mar 2024
We are excited to share with the members of DOAB that we recently marked 10 years of open access book publishing. Negotiating Bioethics became the first fully open access Taylor & Francis book back in 2013. Ten years later, with a list of more than 1,500 OA titles and thousands of...
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Tue 26 Mar 2024
This blog post is written by Jordy Findanis, Project Manager, on DOAB’s recent participation in the workshop “Towards Sustainable Open Access Book Publishing in the African Context” at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, 7–9 February 2024. A more equitable, inclusive and sustainable open access...
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Thu 21 Mar 2024
This blog post was written in collaboration with Jeff Edmunds, Digital Access Coordinator at the Penn State University Libraries. It’s a companion piece to the original blog post, ‘Open Access metadata: OAPEN partners with Penn State University Libraries’.
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Thu 08 Feb 2024
As you may have seen in our newsletters, we at OAPEN & DOAB are moving from the BIC classification to the new Thema classification. A little background Why are we doing this? The subjects of the books and chapters in the OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) are described in...
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Wed 31 Jan 2024
As many of you might have noticed, last week the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) website was unavailable for several days. Sadly, the reason for this was not a technical glitch as we first suspected, but an actual attack on DOAB. During the weekend of 21 January, someone decided to flood the Domain...