OAPEN
Online library of open access books
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.
OAPEN and DOAB 2024 Highlights published
OAPEN and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) have published a joint 2024 Highlights report, detailing their activities and achievements in 2024. This revised version of the report, which replaces the previous format of stakeholder reports, is intended to inform OAPEN and DOAB’s stakeholders about their activities and achievements which they supported throughout the year.
2025 event attendance
Come meet us in person at these conferences in 2025. We will be adding to this list if our attendance at additional conferences emerges, so make sure to check back regularly!
A book is a book in any other markup language
Updating the OAPEN Library’s metadata feeds Since the launch of the OAPEN Library in 2010, the metadata feeds for our collection of open access (OA) books and chapters have always been and will continue to be freely available for anyone to access, download, and use as they need from the OAPEN website. ...
Funnelling locusts – further reflections on the OAPEN Library and DOAB’s response time
In my previous post on our less than optimal performance of the OAPEN Library and DOAB, I wrote about the effect of AI bots on our systems, and that it has become a common problem for many sites providing open access (OA) or open source software content. All of them – including the OAPEN Library and...
OAPEN
OA Books Toolkit
