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Directory of Open Access Books milestones: 30,000 open access books from over 400 publishers

We are pleased to share that the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) recently reached three key milestones in terms of book coverage, unique publishers and future financial sustainability.

Over 30,000 books from more than 400 publishers

The number of open access books included in DOAB has grown impressively from just over 10,000 books in 2018 to 31,917 as of today. In terms of publishers, we are happy to see that over 400 publishers are included in DOAB as we strive to improve the coverage of the directory.
To celebrate this new milestone we took a closer look at the DOAB platform. Check out the key figures on publications per language, publication period and the distribution of licenses below.

SCOSS Campaign – halfway financial sustainability target

Thanks to new pledges of support from Canada, France and the Netherlands we surpassed the halfway point of our SCOSS campaign. Currently, we are at 60% of our financial target.

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Quelle: https://dhd-blog.org/?p=14519

Launch of the OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit

A freely available toolkit: helping academic book authors to better understand open access book publishing.

The Hague, 30 September 2020. The OAPEN Foundation has launched a new open access (OA) books toolkit for researchers and academic book authors. The toolkit is a free-to-access, stakeholder-agnostic resource that aims to help authors better understand OA for books, increase trust in OA book publishing, provide reliable and easy-to-find answers to questions from authors, and to provide guidance on the process of publishing an OA book.

The toolkit was created in collaboration with Springer Nature and The University of Glasgow and has been written by a global group of stakeholders from the academic community and scholarly communications organisations. “Thanks to the efforts and help of nearly 70 individuals we have been able to create this public resource”. says Eelco Ferwerda, Director at OAPEN Foundation.

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Quelle: https://dhd-blog.org/?p=14417