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The DOAB Newsletter

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Official launch of the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
The Directory of Open Access books was officially launched<http://doabooks.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=314fa411ba5eaaee7244c95e1&id=34324fc37a&e=267516c72d> on 1 July 2013 at the Open Access Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference, The British Library, London.

At the launch, Bas Savenije, Director General of the Dutch National Library and Chairman of the Board of OAPEN Foundation, introduced OAPEN and the reasons to develop the Directory of Open Access Books (view presentation<http://doabooks.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=314fa411ba5eaaee7244c95e1&id=6072734287&e=267516c72d>).

Eelco Ferwerda, Director of OAPEN, discussed the development of DOAB since the launch of the beta version in 2012 and outlined its goals: to promote OA book publishing, by increasing the discoverability of OA books, by supporting quality assurance and standards, and by providing an authoritative list of OA book publishers. Ferwerda mentioned the Directory of Open Access Journals as an important example for DOAB. He expects DOAB will need to regularly refine its selection criteria, just as DOAJ is currently doing. He also announced that DOAB will follow DOAJ’s approach to sustain its activities through financial support from the stakeholder community.

DOAB currently lists over 1450 OA books from 49 publishers and more publishers are will be added shortly (view presentation<http://doabooks.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=314fa411ba5eaaee7244c95e1&id=7188ffa758&e=267516c72d>).

DOAB is sponsored by Brill and SpringerOpen. Veronika Spinka, SpringerOpen Books Manager, remarked that “DOAB is already a successful established tool in the scientific community”. “We believe that some form of certification is always needed”, said Sam Bruinsma, Brill’s Vice President Business Development, ”to make sure that Open Access book publishing will succeed”.

The full video of the launch can be found here<http://doabooks.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=314fa411ba5eaaee7244c95e1&id=603c5fb5e7&e=267516c72d>.
More on the Open Access Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference
JISC Collections and the OAPEN Foundation organised the Open Access Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference. The topics of the conference included new Open Access business models, maintaining quality, the future of peer-review, licensing and international policy development. The key note speakers Jean-Claude Guédon (University of Montreal)<http://doabooks.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=314fa411ba5eaaee7244c95e1&id=72069dd0ab&e=267516c72d> and Cameron Neylon (Public Library of Science)<http://doabooks.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=314fa411ba5eaaee7244c95e1&id=7c5af553b4&e=267516c72d> discussed  the role of the monograph in the age of digital information.

On the second day of the conference Janneke Adema (PhD in Media and Communication, Coventry University), presented Find a reputable OA publisher – Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) in the strand for authors (“How exactly do you get your monograph published in open access?”)  (view presentation<http://doabooks.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=314fa411ba5eaaee7244c95e1&id=32c050c711&e=267516c72d>).

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