1. Official Launch of the Directory of Open Access Books
OA Monograph in HSS conference
1 July 2013, British Library, London
Bas Savenije
Director General of the National Library of the Netherlands
Chairman of board of OAPEN

2. OAPEN: history
• OAPEN: Open Access Publishing in
European Networks
• Started as EU co-funded project in 2008
• Conducted by 6 EU University Presses
and 2 NL Universities
• Launch of OAPEN Library in 2010
• Continued as Foundation after close of
project in April 2011

3. OAPEN Foundation
• OAPEN Foundation: Dedicated to OA books
• Main focus areas:
– Quality assurance
– Aggregation and Deposit
– Discovery and Dissemination
• Supported by academic institutions from the
Netherlands, including NWO - the Netherlands
Organisation for Scientic Research
• Aim: to develop a European Deposit service for
OA monographs, support OA mandates

4. OAPEN Foundation
• OAPEN Library
– 50+ publishers, 1600 OA books
– Only peer reviewed content
– Increasing visibility and discoverabitiy
• Projects
– OAPEN-UK (Jisc Collections and AHRC)
– OAPEN-NL (NWO and Ministry of Education)
– Europeana Cloud
– Going for Gold: EU bid to publish OA monographs
• 20 partners (15 universities)

5. OAPEN and DOAB
• Why did we start DOAB?
– Great opportunity to support OA books!
– Following success of DOAJ (2003):
– Promote OA
– Increase visibility and usage
– Support quality of OA publications
• Chance to bring together most OA book
initiatives
– Involve stakeholders (publishers, libraries, funders,
aggregators)
– Discuss requirements, licensing, quality
– Develop list of trusted OA book publishers

6. • Deposit service
• Full text search
• Free + OA
• Focus on HSS
Aim:
• European Deposit
Service for OA books
• Discovery service
• Metadata only
• OA only
• All disciplines
Aim:
• Authoritative list of
OA book publishers

7. DOAB Sponsors