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

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

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

4. 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

5. 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 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: OA books, from 317 publishers

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

17. Eelco Ferwerda – e.ferwerda@oapen.org
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