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<main class="doab-main home"> <section class="section doab-home-intro"> <div class="container"> <p class="is-size-5">DOAB is 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/strengthening-open-infrastructures-for-scholarly-books">Strengthening open infrastructures for scholarly books</a> </h2> <p>CERN and the OAPEN Foundation have completed the migration to directly host the OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) in the CERN Data Centre.</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/updating-our-publisher-requirements-enhancing-transparency-and-global-inclusivity">Updating our publisher requirements: enhancing transparency and global inclusivity</a> </h2> <p>As DOAB continues to engage with many different stakeholder groups across a globally diverse community, and as the scholarly communications landscape continues to evolve, there is also a corresponding need to revisit the workflows and standards that inform our own work at DOAB. DOAB’s revised and updated <a href="https://doabooks.org/en/publishers/join-doab">criteria and requirements</a> for publishers - which are only applicable to publishers submitting applications to DOAB after 1 March 2025 - are available <a href="https://doabooks.org/en/publishers/join-doab">here</a>. </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%2F1250">Equitable and sustainable open access for scholarly books in East Africa: report from an online session</a> </h2> <p>This is a guest post written by Malavika Legge, Program Manager at OASPA. In October 2024, a collaborative online-session for publishers from East Africa was co-organised by the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and OAPEN, along with the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), and French...</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%2F1198">Book subjects and bibliodiversity</a> </h2> <p>We are all aware of bibliodiversity: the idea that different communities have specific needs which should also be reflected in their publications. 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