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…
« The “Take 5 with PALOMERA partners” is a blog series featuring the members of the PALOMERA project; you can get to know them in 5 questions and a quick read!
The PALOMERA project is dedicated to understand why so few open access funder policies include books,…
« 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…
« 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…
« 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: (…) »
« L’édition scientifique connait une révolution depuis plusieurs années avec le développement de l’accès ouvert, ou open access, qui permet à tous de consulter gratuitement des articles ou des livres académiques. Mais dans cet environnement de liberté, lecteurs et bibliothécaires doivent pouvoir être orientés vers des ouvrages de qualité, certifiés par…
« Les Living Books about History sont une collection d’anthologies numériques sur des thèmes de recherche actuels. Chaque livre contient un essai par les éditrices ou éditeurs, ainsi qu’une sélection de textes et de sources. Ces contributions peuvent être des articles, images, vidéos, sites web ou enregistrements, qui existent…
« Le Jisc a mis en ligne les résultats de son étude « a five-year study into OA monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences » (OAPEN-UK)
…Examining the attitudes and perceptions of funders, researchers, publishers, learned societies, universities and libraries, our study reiterated the deep strength of…
» OAPEN and OpenEdition, two European projects dedicated to Open Access publishing in the humanities and social sciences, are pleased to announce their collaboration to strengthen Open Access monograph publishing.
Services for Open Access booksOpenEdition is a publishing platform developing a sustainable model for Open Access…
