[Oa-italia] [Fwd: [sparc-oaforum] Press release: A new service for Open AccessMonographs: the Directory of Open Access Books]

[Elena Giglia]

Giro alla lista perche' di interesse. qui a torino c'e' grande interesse
anche per le monografie OA.
DOAB mi sembra un buon servizio...
A chi fosse interessato a nuova editoria open segnalo anche il progetto
Open Edition, nato in Francia dall'esperienza di revues.org
Buona giornata
eg

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Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneo
Università degli Studi di Torino
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A new service for Open Access Monographs: the Directory of Open Access
Books.****

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OAPEN is pleased to announce a new service for Open Access monographs: the
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). DOAB will provide a searchable
index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an
Open Access business model, with links to the full texts of the
publications at the publisher’s website or repository. The beta version of
the service will contain publications of a selected number of academic
publishers. The beta version will be made public early spring 2012.****

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The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access
books. Academic publishers will be invited to provide the metadata of
their Open Access books to the DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order
to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can
integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can
integrate the directory into their online catalogues, thereby helping
scholars, students and the general public to discover the books. The
directory will be open to all academic publishers and should contain as
many books as possible, provided that these books are peer reviewed and
published in Open Access. DOAB will determine requirements for publishers
to qualify as Open Access academic book publishers and will maintain a
certification procedure.****

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A number of academic publishers have already expressed their interest in
taking part in the further development of the service; among them are
members of the OAPEN Library such as Amsterdam University Press and
Göttingen University Press, and other well-known Open Access publishers
such as Open Book Publishers, Open Humanities Press, MPublishing and
Athabasca University Press. OpenEdition, a portal dedicated to electronic
resources in the humanities (www.openedition.org), will also take part in
the beta phase of DOAB.****

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DOAB will be launched by the OAPEN Foundation <http://www.oapen.org/home>.
The idea for DOAB has been developed with Lars Bjørnshauge and Salam Baker
Shanawa (director of SemperTool <http://www.sempertool.dk/>), who were
also responsible for the development of the Directory of Open Access
Journals ( DOAJ <http://www.doaj.org/>). Both will be involved in the
further development of DOAB.****

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OAPEN will manage the service and approach publishers to provide the
metadata of their Open Access books. OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in
European Networks, www.oapen.org) started in 2008 as an EU-funded project
coordinated by Amsterdam University Press. The OAPEN Foundation is an
international initiative dedicated to Open Access monograph publishing,
based at the National Library in The Hague. OAPEN develops Open Access
models for books and works with academic publishers and research
institutes to build a collection of Open Access books through the OAPEN
Library. OAPEN is currently involved in two pilot projects in the
Netherlands and the UK experimenting with Open Access monograph
publishing. ****

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SemperTool will develop and maintain the service. SemperTool (
www.sempertool.dk) is a software development company specializing in
building digital library technologies, as well as providing hosting and
consulting services. Salam Baker Shanawa, director of SemperTool, was in
charge of development of DOAJ while employed at Lund University, and for
the past two years SemperTool has been responsible for further development
and maintenance of DOAJ.  SemperTool offers a range of reliable and
cost-effective software solutions for digital libraries, and serves more
than 100 universities in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.****

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Lars Bjørnshauge will be involved in the further development of DOAB and
its business model. Lars founded and managed DOAJ during his service as
Director of Libraries at Lund University, Sweden. Currently Lars is
SPARC’s Director of European Library relations and Senior Advisor to the
National Library of Sweden. ****

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For more information, please contact Eelco Ferwerda, director of the OAPEN
Foundation, e.ferwerda a oapen.org, +31(0)629565168.****

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