Abstract
Monographs and academic books are increasingly becoming a focus point in the open access debate and policy developments. This article gives a personal account of the rationale behind open access book publishing and open infrastructures for books. It elaborates on the need for collaboration between the actors in the community in order to sustain open access book publishing to the benefit of the scholarly community and the public at large.
Highlights
When I recently was appointed director of the OAPEN Foundation it felt a bit like coming home, returning to the landscape of scholarly monographs and open access
All its services are based on an open e-infrastructure – the OAPEN Library – which holds more than 15,000 open access (OA) peer reviewed books submitted by more than 300 publishers in many different languages generating over 5 million downloads annually
The services offered on top of the OAPEN Library are for instance customised metadata feeds via API to library catalogues, integrating the metadata of the OAPEN collection in MARC21, MARC XML or other formats, tailored usage reports to the institution, community involvement and engagement
Summary
All its services are based on an open e-infrastructure – the OAPEN Library – which holds more than 15,000 open access (OA) peer reviewed books submitted by more than 300 publishers in many different languages generating over 5 million downloads annually. The infrastructure and the books within it are open to anyone. The services offered on top of the OAPEN Library are for instance customised metadata feeds via API to library catalogues, integrating the metadata of the OAPEN collection in MARC21, MARC XML or other formats ( available through knowledge bases like Ex Libris Primo), tailored usage reports to the institution, community involvement and engagement. Deposit and monitoring services are offered to research funders, such as ERC (European Research Council), FWF (Austrian Science Fund), SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation), NWO (Dutch Research Council) and Wellcome
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