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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.

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## SCOSS-support
# DOAB and OAPEN jointly selected for second funding cycle SCOSS

SCOSS, the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services, selected DOAB as essential infrastructure to support the transition of monographs and book chapters to open access models. SCOSS encourages the open science community to consider financially supporting DOAB and its services where possible.

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## 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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## Updating our publisher requirements: enhancing transparency and global inclusivity

As DOAB continues to engage with many different stakeholder groups across a globally diverse community, and as the scholarly communications landscape continues to evolve, there is also a corresponding need to revisit the workflows and standards that inform our own work at DOAB. DOAB’s revised and updated criteria and requirements for publishers - which are only applicable to publishers submitting applications to DOAB after 1 March 2025 - are available here.

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## 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.

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## Welcoming publishers and library supporters

We are grateful to the following libraries and consortia who have either supported us for the first time or continued their long-time support; and to the following libraries who want to make OA books more discoverable and the latest research available around the world by being part of the OAPEN Library and DOAB.

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## 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...

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## What are our strategic priorities in 2025?

OAPEN, an open infrastructure for open access (OA) books, provides services to stakeholders in scholarly communications, namely, publishers, funders, libraries, and researchers. Our vision is for all scholarly books to be shared and distributed openly and fairly for the collective benefit of humanity....

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