Meet the DOAB Trusted Platform Network

The African Platform for Open Scholarship (APOS)

The African Platform for Open Scholarship (APOS) supports diamond open access publishing of African books and journals. This publishing model is built for the advancement of social justice principles, that is, the removal of barriers to publishing without compromising on academic rigour. The platform aims to address capacity, infrastructure, affordability and sustainability issues making it a potential solution for advancing the dissemination of African scholarship. APOS offers each participating African institution the opportunity to retain their identity through taking ownership of their segment within the platform showcasing its academically sound scholarship.

Fulcrum

Fulcrum is a community-based, open source publishing platform that helps publishers present the full richness of their authors’ research outputs in a durable, discoverable, accessible and flexible form.

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 non-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.

The 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 40,000 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.

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).

PEPA (UNE - Unión de Editoriales Universitarias Españolas)

PEPA (UNE - Unión de Editoriales Universitarias Españolas): The UNE OA Platform is the repository that collects the scientific output of monographs from the various Publishing Services that are part of UNE (Spanish University Publishers Union).

The UNE OA Platform was launched in 2024 with the aim of ensuring the preservation, access, and open dissemination of these publications.

Its objectives include:

  • Promoting an infrastructure as a common access point to the scientific output of the various Publishing Services that are part of UNE, ensuring interoperability in accordance with global community standards.
  • Promoting and facilitating the adoption of open access in the various Publishing Services that are part of UNE, supporting their commitment to aligning with Open Access and Open Science policies.
  • Providing greater visibility and dissemination, both nationally and internationally, to the scientific publications of the Publishing Services that make up UNE.

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.

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.

SIMEH (Hipertexto – Netizen)

SIMEH (powered by Hipertexto – Netizen) is a comprehensive metadata management platform serving over 400 academic and university publishers across 14 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. With more than two decades of experience, Hipertexto – Netizen provides innovative technological solutions and services designed to support the entire scholarly publishing value chain.

Operating from Colombia (Hipertexto) and Mexico (Netizen), the organization works with university publishers affiliated with national and regional associations such as EULAC (Latin American and Caribbean University Presses Association) and more than six national university publisher associations in the region, as well as other academic publishers.

Thoth Open Metadata

Thoth Open Metadata is a community-led non-profit platform and service facilitating open metadata management and dissemination workflows for Open Access (OA) books and book chapters. With Thoth, publishers can easily create and distribute metadata in a variety of standard formats such as MARC, ONIX, KBART, and JSON, in numerous variants reflecting specific platforms’ requirements. Thoth’s platform and services assist publishers in the creation, management and dissemination of fully open metadata records for their titles, leading to improved, higher-quality metadata that benefits the entire scholarly publishing ecosystem. Thoth also supports an integration of the data, which is released with a CC0 dedication, with third-party applications through its open APIs, enabling innovative new content and services to be developed.

UPLOpen

UPLOpen was launched in April 2024, and is one of the largest online collections of free-to-read, peer-reviewed academic books. With more than 13,000 titles from over 70 leading university presses, UPLOpen offers trusted, high-quality scholarship curated with a focus on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

More than just a platform, UPLOpen is a bold effort to accelerate Open Access publishing and build a sustainable future for OA monographs. UPLOpen’s innovative funding model builds on the success of Paradigm Publishing’s University Press Library (UPL) program. Libraries know UPL as a collection-based model for acquiring eBooks from leading university presses and independent scholarly publishing houses. UPLOpen introduces an OA component to the UPL model, enabling libraries to unify the acquisition of both open and paywalled content.