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.
2024 was an incredibly full and rewarding year, and we enjoyed collaborating with organisations across the landscape to promote and support open access (OA) books. We’d love to share a few highlights with you ahead of releasing our annual stakeholder report where we will expand on them (and more!) in detail.
CERN and the OAPEN Foundation have completed the migration to directly host the OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) in the CERN Data Centre.
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...
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....
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.
