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The OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) online library and publication platform provides access to thousands of peer-reviewed academic books, mainly in the humanities and social sciences. The OAPEN Foundation [13] also provides a directory of open access works via Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). [14]
Open Book Publishers was founded in 2008 by Rupert Gatti and Alessandra Tosi, both academics from the University of Cambridge. William St Clair joined OBP in 2009 and became the chairman of the board of directors, a role he held until his death in 2021. OBP is now the biggest independent open access academic publisher of monographs in the UK.
The Open Society Institute funded various open access related projects after the Budapest Open Access Initiative; the Directory was one of those projects. [10] The idea for the DOAJ came out of discussions at the first Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication in 2002. Lund University became the organization to set up and maintain the DOAJ. [11]
Open access (OA) is the right and freedom to read research, generally online, and ideally with the ability to reuse it without restraint. Gratis OA is that freedom to read, and Libre OA is the full freedom to read and reuse. The full freedom, as defined in the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOIA) includes:
The number of open access journals increased by an estimated 500% during the 2000–2009 decade.Also, the average number of articles that were published per open access journal per year increased from approximately 20 to 40 during the same period, resulting in that the number of open access articles increased by 900% during that decade.
Open access logo, originally designed by Public Library of Science. A PhD Comics introduction to open access. Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers. [ 1 ]
Open Book Collective is a major output of the Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project (2019-23), and is a major stakeholder in the COPIM successor project Open Book Futures (2023-26), [2] funded by Arcadia and the Research England Development Fund (REDFund), and seeking to accelerate the international ...
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