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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Iryna Kuchma <<a href="mailto:iryna.kuchma@eifl.net">iryna.kuchma@eifl.net</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 17, 2021 3:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> eifloa <<a href="mailto:eifloa@lists.eifl.net">eifloa@lists.eifl.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [EIFL-OA] DOAB relaunches on renewed open source DSpace platform</p></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">[Forwarded message from <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tom Mosterd</span></strong> <<a href="mailto:t.mosterd@oapen.org">t.mosterd@oapen.org</a>>]</p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">*<i>With apologies for cross-posting*</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) relaunches on the open source DSpace platform.</b> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i><span lang="EN-GB">The DOAB Foundation is pleased to share that the <a href="https://doabooks.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155cc">Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)</span></a> has successfully migrated to a new open source environment. The renewed DOAB platform offers additional functionalities and features, improving the service for all stakeholders. </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">Niels Stern, Director of OAPEN and co-director of DOAB said “The entire DOAB team is very excited about this development</span>. T<span lang="EN-GB">ransitioning to the open source DSpace platform represents an important next step for the DOAB Foundation and our firm commitment to open science.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;background:white">The transition of DOAB to an open source environment comes at a time where momentum for OA books is on the rise and access to scholarly books is proving to be of critical importance to users worldwide.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Press Release: </b><a href="https://www.doabooks.org/en/doab/article/doab-relaunches-on-the-open-source-d-space-platform" target="_blank">https://www.doabooks.org/en/doab/article/doab-relaunches-on-the-open-source-d-space-platform</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Visit DOAB:</b> <a href="https://doabooks.org/" target="_blank">https://doabooks.org/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">Following the migration, all </span>DOAB<span lang="EN-GB"> services will remain free of charge with all data being freely available. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Kind regards,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Tom Mosterd</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Community Manager DOAB / OAPEN</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="mailto:t.mosterd@oapen.org" target="_blank">t.mosterd@oapen.org</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>About DOAB</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to over 34,000 scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books. <span style="color:black;background:white">The Directory of Open Access Books is a service of the DOAB Foundation. The DOAB Foundation is a non-profit legal entity under Dutch law (‘stichting’), established by the </span><a href="http://oapen.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155cc;background:white">OAPEN Foundation</span></a><span style="color:black;background:white"> and </span><a href="https://www.openedition.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155cc;background:white">OpenEdition</span></a><span style="color:black;background:white">. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal">-- <br>--- [EIFL-OA] mailing list - <a href="mailto:eifloa@eifl.net">eifloa@eifl.net</a> - <a href="https://eifl.net">https://eifl.net</a><br>--- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <a href="mailto:eifloa+unsubscribe@eifl.net">eifloa+unsubscribe@eifl.net</a><br>--- <br>To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to <a href="mailto:eifloa+unsubscribe@eifl.net">eifloa+unsubscribe@eifl.net</a>.</p></div></body></html>
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