The year 2025 was very eventful for OAPEN and DOAB, and it is with great pleasure that I can reflect on the year that has passed. In a highlights report such as this, it is of course impossible to capture everything that has taken place − particularly the many efforts…
« Le DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books), piloté par OpenEdition et la fondation néerlandaise OAPEN, fête cette année ses dix ans d’existence. Né de l’idée d’indexer des livres et des chapitres de livres en accès ouvert évalués par les pairs, le DOAB est aujourd’hui devenu un répertoire…
« The French National Open Science Fund (FNSO) is providing financial support to four international infrastructures selected by SCOSS as part of its funding campaigns. After the support provided in 2020 and 2022, France thus renews its commitment to sustainable international infrastructures for open science. (…) »
« The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), a community-driven discovery service for open access books, is launching its Peer Review Information Service for Monographs (PRISM). PRISM is a service provided by DOAB as part of the OPERAS service portfolio. (…) »
« A milestone for open access – the Directory of Open Access Books now includes over 50,000 open access books published in 90 languages by 560 academic book publishers. The directory, representing scholarship from authors and publishers around the globe, is openly available to the scholarly community and the general public…
« The Big Ten Academic Alliance has entered into a three-year collective action agreement with the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and OAPEN Library and Publication Platform (OAPEN) to provide financial support from all fifteen member libraries.
The BTAA is delighted to take collective action on behalf of its…
The DOAB Foundation is pleased to share that the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) has successfully migrated to a new open source environment, based on DSpace 6. DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to over 34,000 scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books. Following the migration,…
« In these deeply troubling times, we are nonetheless happy to announce that the OAPEN Library has moved to a new platform, based on DSpace, the open source repository system. (…)
The move to DSpace is part of a wider project, OPERAS-P, to support the development…
Le Fonds national pour la science ouverte (FNSO) décide de soutenir trois infrastructures internationales de la science ouverte dans le cadre de l’initiative Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS). (…)
OpenCitations, infrastructure basée à l’université de Bologne (Italie), a pour but, en collaboration…
« The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), of which SPARC Europe is a founding member, is launching its second funding cycle; three vetted “vital open infrastructure” services are being presented to the international scholarly community for funding: (…) »
