Directory of Open Access Books
Mission
Key Achievements
Technical Attributes
Maintenance Status
Open Product Roadmap
Content Licensing
Standards Employed
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement
Organizational Commitment to Community Engagement
Annual meetings for supporting libraries are held at least twice every November (to accommodate different time zones). At these meetings libraries are invited to give feedback on our technical roadmap and any other topic.
We have established a library working group focussing on the improvement of metadata in DOAB (and OAPEN).
Besides this direct engagement, we engage in a numerous of other ways as described in our annual stakeholder reports:
Engagement with Values Frameworks
User Contribution Pathways
- Contribute funds
- Contribute to working groups or interest groups
- Other
Policies & Governance
Governance Summary
The Directory of Open Access Books is a service of DOAB Foundation. DOAB Foundation is a non-profit legal entity under Dutch law (‘stichting’), established by OAPEN Foundation and OpenEdition in 2019. It is governed by an Executive Board, Supervisory Board, DOAB Scientific Committee, Scientific Committee Members, and the DOAB Community of Supporting Libraries.
Policies
Web Accessibility Statement
Additional Information
Organizational History
Organizational Structure
Business or Ownership Model
Full-time Staff
Funding
Primary Funding Source
Funding Needs
Further funding will ensure that a truly and fully open infrastructure for academic books will contine to be available as a trust-worthy, effecient, not-for-profit, and community-led alternative to proprietary and commercial services.
Further funding is needed to make DOAB a truly global service advancing equitable open access scholarly publishing and distribution. This requires:
- Resilient technical infrastructure.
- Global outreach and engagement.
- Establishing a global partner network
- Evaluation guidelines and training
- Development of efficient and trust-based workflows centrally and locally (with partners).
DOAB has two funding streams for its operations:
- Library support (~90%)
- Sponsorships (~10%)