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.
PRISM: 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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SIMEH joins DOAB Trusted Platform Network
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is delighted to announce that SIMEH (Hipertexto – Netizen) has joined as the most recent member of the DOAB Trusted Platform Network. This strategic partnership marks another significant milestone in expanding global access to high-quality open access scholarly books from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain, enhancing the multilingual and multicultural diversity of the DOAB collection.
A New Automated Deposit Workflow for OAPEN and DOAB: More Efficient, Faster, and Robust
We are excited to share a significant update on the progress of our technical strategy. In direct response to the key findings from the Technical Review of the OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) by the Curtin Institute for Data Science, alongside our internal audit,...
认识 OAPEN 与 DOAB 大使：对 DOAB 中国大使 Alicia Wang 的一次访谈
问题一：是什么促使您加入 DOAB 并担任大使？ 我希望通过倡导开放获取图书，为全球科学向开放科学的转型有所贡献，让更多有价值的出版成果能够惠及更广泛的读者。正是出于对支持与促进国际学术交流的愿望，我选择加入中国图书进出口（集团）有限公司，负责推动中外学术交流项目，并参与促进文化交流的非营利性或使命驱动型项目。在工作中结识的许多同仁也给予了我很深的影响，例如颜帅先生（DOAJ大使）和郭晓锋女士（Crossref大使）。见证他们对中国学术出版展现的热忱与产生的实际影响，触发我接任DOAB大使这一角色。 问题二：作为DOAB大使，您计划如何通过自己的工作推动您所在国家/地区的开放获取图书出版？ 作为DOAB大使，我计划依托中国图书进出口（集团）有限公司的平台和渠道，将DOAB更深入地融入中国学术生态系统。我的工作将围绕以下三个方面展开：...