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a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.</p>  </div> </section> <section class="section doab-home-featured"> <div class="container"> <a class="is-hidden" href="/en/featuredtitles">Featured Titles</a> <div class="carouselloader" data-src="/en/featuredtitles #FeaturedTitles"> </div> </div> </section> <div class="section"> <div class="container"> <div class="columns">  <div class="column doab-home-showcases"> <div class="container"> <div class="title is-6 doab-section-caption is-hidden">Showcase</div> <hr class="is-hidden"/> <div class="doab-home-showcase content"> <h2 class="title is-4"> <a href="/en/article/scoss-support">SCOSS-support</a> </h2> <h1>DOAB and OAPEN jointly selected for second funding cycle SCOSS</h1> <p>SCOSS, the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services, selected DOAB as essential infrastructure to support the transition of monographs and book chapters to open access models. SCOSS encourages the open science community to consider financially supporting DOAB and its services where possible.</p> <a href="/en/article/scoss-support" class="doab-more">read more </a> </div> <div class="doab-home-showcase content doab-faq"> <h2 class="title is-4"> <a href="/en/article/prism">PRISM: Peer Review Information Service for Monographs</a> </h2> <p>The Peer Review Information Service for Monographs (PRISM) aims to provide information from open access (OA) book publishers, based on their peer review procedure. The goal of the service is to support trust in OA book publishing, by improving transparency around quality assurance of OA book publishers and their publications.</p> <a href="/en/article/prism" class="doab-more">read more </a> </div> </div> </div>  <div class="column is-4 doab-home-serviceof"> <div class="container"> <div class="title is-6 doab-section-caption">DOAB is a service of</div> <div class="columns is-multiline is-desktop is-vcentered doab-serviceof"> <div class="column is-half-desktop"> <a href="https://www.oapen.org/"> <img src="/static-assets/images/oapenlogo_01_colour_no_text.png" alt="logo oapen"/> </a> </div> <div class="column is-half-desktop"> <a href="https://www.openedition.org/"> <img src="/static-assets/images/openedition_300dpi_small.png" alt="logo open edition"/> </a> </div> <div class="column is-half-desktop"> <a href="https://www.cnrs.fr/"> <img src="/static-assets/images/Logo_AMU_RVB.png" alt="logo AMU"/> </a> </div> <div class="column is-half-desktop"> <a href="https://www.univ-amu.fr/"> <img src="/static-assets/images/LOGO_CNRS_2019_RVB.png" alt="logo CNRS"/> </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container"> <div class="columns">  <div class="column"> <div class="container"> <div class="columns is-multiline is-desktop">  <div class="column is-one-third-desktop doab-home-spotlight"> <div class="title is-6 doab-section-caption">spotlight</div> <hr class="is-hidden"> <h2 class="title is-5"> <a href="/en/article/building-trust-in-peer-review-an-interview-with-the-doab-quality-team">Building trust in peer review: An interview with the DOAB quality team</a> </h2> <p>Peer review is a crucial part of academic publishing, including open access book publishing. The peer review system faces many challenges, and one such specific challenge is in maintaining quality and integrity. Fortunately, there are many people and organisations, like OAPEN and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), who seek to build trust around peer review and quality standards, specifically for open access books.</p> </div> <div class="column is-one-third-desktop doab-home-spotlight"> <div class="title is-6 doab-section-caption">spotlight</div> <hr class="is-hidden"> <h2 class="title is-5"> <a href="/en/article/jstor-african-platform-for-open-scholarship-apos-fulcrum-and-thoth-open-metadata-join-doab-trusted-platform-network">JSTOR, African Platform for Open Scholarship (APOS), Fulcrum, and Thoth Open Metadata join DOAB Trusted Platform Network</a> </h2> <p>The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is delighted to formally announce that four new platforms have recently joined the DOAB Trusted Platform Network. JSTOR, the African Platform for Open Scholarship (APOS), Fulcrum (University of Michigan Press), and Thoth Open Metadata have each signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with DOAB to facilitate cross-platform collaboration for open access books.</p> </div>  <div class="column is-one-third-desktop doab-home-spotlight"> <div class="title is-6 doab-section-caption">blogpost</div> <hr class="is-hidden"> <h2 class="title is-5"> <a href="/blog/?link=https%3A%2F%2Foapen.hypotheses.org%2F1031">An Interview with the University of Oxford, Bodleian Libraries</a> </h2> <p>The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford recently became a premium OAPEN Library and DOAB supporter. Silke Davison, Community Manager, interviewed David Watson, the Bodleian’s open monograph project officer about their engagement with OA books and why they chose to become one of our supporters....</p> </div> <div class="column is-one-third-desktop doab-home-spotlight"> <div class="title is-6 doab-section-caption">blogpost</div> <hr class="is-hidden"> <h2 class="title is-5"> <a href="/blog/?link=https%3A%2F%2Foapen.hypotheses.org%2F1023">OAPEN and DOAB: Putting equity into action</a> </h2> <p>This blog follows the participation of Silke Davison, Community Manager, in the opening discussion panel, ‘Who cares about equity? How different stakeholders of the open access scholarly publishing landscape approach equity’ at the 2024 OASPA Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, from 16-18 September. 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