DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
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DOAB and OAPEN jointly selected for second funding cycle SCOSS
SCOSS, the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services, selected DOAB as essential infrastructure to support the transition of monographs and book chapters to open access models. SCOSS encourages the open science community to consider financially supporting DOAB and its services where possible.
read morePRISM: Peer Review Information Service for Monographs
The Peer Review Information Service for Monographs (PRISM) aims to provide information from open access (OA) book publishers, based on their peer review procedure. The goal of the service is to support trust in OA book publishing, by improving transparency around quality assurance of OA book publishers and their publications.
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Building trust in peer review: An interview with the DOAB quality team
Peer review is a crucial part of academic publishing, including open access book publishing. The peer review system faces many challenges, and one such specific challenge is in maintaining quality and integrity. Fortunately, there are many people and organisations, like OAPEN and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), who seek to build trust around peer review and quality standards, specifically for open access books.
Job Opening: Open Access Books Project Management Internship at OAPEN & DOAB
Are you interested in gaining hands-on experience with an academic publishing service provider? We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Project Management Intern to join our team. This internship offers a comprehensive 360-degree experience in service provision for open access book publishing, including infrastructure management, community engagement, communication and marketing, account management, and general administration. You get to work in a supportive learning environment with professional guidance from a global team of dedicated colleagues committed to open science and knowledge equity. You gain real-world experience in open access publishing of scholarly books and their role in research and education and exposure to a dynamic open access environment. This role also presents you an opportunity to build a diverse professional network.
Migrating the OAPEN Library and DOAB to CERN
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...
An Interview with the University of Oxford, Bodleian Libraries
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....