Text+ IO-Lecture: OAPEN & DOAB

Monday 10 Feb 2025, 11:00 → 12:45 Europe/Berlin

https://uni-goettingen.zoom-x.de/j/63619206134?pwd=dMqZrwjl3Tq4h2ktgOsatHjPcIbD03.1 (Zoom)

Text+ IO-Lecture: OAPEN & Directory Access Books (Monday 10.02.2025, 11:00-12:30)

OAPEN offers a wide range of expertise, services and well-curated academic content aimed at librarians, publishers, researchers, and funders. OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality-controlled collection of open access books and provide services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.

The DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) 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.

Both initiatives are of relevance for the communities around the NFDI consortia of the MoU group: NFDI4Culture, Text+, NFDI4Memory, and NFDI4Objects.

Silke Davison and Sebastiano Sali, Community Managers at OAPEN & DOAB, will introduce the audience into both services, highlight benefits four our communities, and speak about some of the many already existing working relations with institutions of the German academia.

At the end of this lecture, the participants shall feel intrigued to explore the services of OAPEN and DOAB and open access publishing for their own research projects.  

This lecture will be held in English.

Topics

• Introduction to OAPEN & DOAB as foundations
• Services of OAPEN
• Services of DOAB
• Questions from the audience
• Explanation and demonstration of the OAPEN OA Books Toolkit
• Questions from the audience
• OAPEN & DOAB engagement in the community (with focus on Germany)
• Final questions

 

Intended Audience

The event is aimed at individuals conducting research in the social sciences and humanities, working at an infrastructure facility in the field, or simply interested in the topic. Furthermore, we especially welcome participants from other NFDI consortia.

Please use the registration link below to sign up.