DOAB Trusted Platform Network
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) serves as a central discovery service for open access books. DOAB collaborates with several trusted platforms to enhance the discoverability of open access books and create a more seamless process for publishers to list their open access books in DOAB.
Publishers who add their open access books to any of the platforms part of the DOAB Trusted Platform Network can request the platform to check and verify which of their open access books meet the DOAB criteria, and to automatically list verified books in DOAB thanks to this collaboration.
The following platforms are part of the DOAB Trusted Platform Network:
Users will be able to recognise DOAB trusted platforms thanks to a special “DOAB Trusted Platform” icon. Through the DOAB Trusted Platform Network, DOAB and its partners aim to enhance discoverability, simplify metadata integration processes and increase trust in open access book platforms.
About the DOAB Trusted Platforms
About OAPEN Library
The OAPEN Library is a hosting platform specifically built for open access books. It consists of a quality-controlled collection of more than 24,000 open access books and chapters from over 400 academic publishers worldwide. These publishers benefit from services in the areas of hosting, deposit, dissemination, digital preservation, and usage reporting.
About OpenEdition
OpenEdition is a comprehensive digital infrastructure for academic communication in the humanities and social sciences. It brings together four complementary platforms focused respectively on journals (OpenEdition Journals), book series (OpenEdition Books), research blogs (Hypotheses) and academic events (Calenda). Recognised as national research infrastructure since 2016, OpenEdition is a public non-profit initiative supported by major research institutions, whose main mission is the promotion of open access digital publishing. OpenEdition also aligns its work with the framework of the Comité pour la science ouverte (French open science committee).
About Project MUSE
Project MUSE has offered libraries affordable access to essential humanities and social sciences research for more than 25 years, as an integral part of the scholarly communications ecosystem and platform of choice for respected not-for-profit publishers. Currently, Project MUSE is the trusted and reliable source for over 700 journals and over 70,000 books, from more than 200 of the world’s leading university presses and scholarly societies. MUSE also hosts thousands of open access books and several open access journal titles, freely available to anyone worldwide.
About SciELO Books
The SciELO Books Portal publishes national and thematic collections of academic books online with the objective of maximising the visibility, accessibility, use and impact of the research results, essays and studies that are published in them. The books published by SciELO Books are selected by a scientific committee following a peer review process. The SciELO Books Portal is part of the SciELO Program of FAPESP and interoperates and shares goals, resources, methodologies and technologies with the SciELO Journals Network, contributing to the development of scientific communication in both publishing media.
About JSTOR
JSTOR strengthens the depth and quality of research by bringing together more than 12 million journals, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines on a platform with unique tools for teaching and exploration. We do this in partnership with libraries, museums, and publishers, working together to reduce costs, extend access, and preserve scholarship for the future as affordably and sustainably as possible. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization with a mission to improve access to knowledge and education for people around the world that also includes Constellate, Ithaka S+R, and Portico.
