DOAB certification service HIRMEOS workshop, Elpub Marseille. June 2019 Eelco Ferwerda (OAPEN)

DOAB Discovery service for OA books Searchable index to peer reviewed monographs Links back to Open Access publication + links to webshop and vendors

DOAB goals Increase discoverability of OA books Provide authoritative list of OA book publishers Support quality assurance and standards Promote OA book publishing

DOAB requirements Established by OAPEN in consultation with OASPA: Academic books in DOAB shall be available under an Open Access license (such as a Creative Commons license) Academic books in DOAB shall be subjected to independent and external peer review prior to publication

DOAB growth May 2019: 16.775 OA books, from 317 publishers OA monographs are growing at an encouraging pace. The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is among the fastest growing OA resources, with a growth rate of 50% since its launch in 2012, and reached the milestone of 10.000 OA books towards the end of 2017. However, these books were published by less than 250 publishers, which indicates that the real transition still needs to take place. The top 4 monograph publishers in the UK published close to 7000 monographs in 2017, but have less than 200 OA books listed in DOAB There are very few funders with mandates for books > Austrian Science Fund FWF; Wellcome; the European Research Council; the Swiss National Science Fund May 2019: 16.775 OA books, from 317 publishers

DOAB next steps Developing a certification service (HIRMEOS) Establishing legal entity for DOAB: NL Foundation Jointly managed by OpenEdition and OAPEN Establishing Governance structure Installing Scientific Board Acquisition of Library memberships Introducing Certification service

DOAB certification A certification service for peer review procedures and open licenses, at the level of publishers, books, and book chapters Development within HIRMEOS Pilot implementation for HIRMEOS platforms Independent governance through Scientific Board Future launch to be planned

DOAB scientific board Aims: Oversee Certification service Establish the scientific policy of DOAB Foundation Support bibliodiversity: the diversity of editorial practices across disciplines and countries Advocate for open access in the humanities

Certification process A publisher (or partner platform) can request to be certified > agrees to terms and conditions Publisher is authorized > fills in an online form Form is approved by DOAB team > assign one or more PR types Publishers can attach certificate to publication through API Certificate is displayed at book/chapter level, on DOAB, website publisher, partner platform Certificate links to further info about publisher and PR

Eelco Ferwerda – e.ferwerda@oapen.org Thanks! Questions? www.doabooks.org @doabooks Eelco Ferwerda – e.ferwerda@oapen.org