Strengthening open infrastructures for scholarly books | OpenScience at CERN
peter.suber's bookmarks 2025-02-03
Summary:
"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.
CERN and the OAPEN Foundation are pleased to announce the successful completion of their expanded partnership to promote open access to books. As of January 2025, CERN's Data Centre is now directly hosting both the OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), alongside its other scholarly communication services such as INSPIREhep and Zenodo.
This milestone marks a significant step forward in increasing the operational efficiency and reliability of OAPEN and DOAB as vital open access book infrastructure for the global research community. The integration has enhanced stability for OAPEN’s stakeholders worldwide, providing open access to over 40,000 books hosted in the OAPEN Library, seeing some 1.5M COUNTER downloads per month...."