Partnerships
DOAB serves as a central hub for open access books, partnering with many different organisations in the open access books landscape, including those listed below. The nature of these partnerships varies and may include membership, agreements, exchanges of information or services, initiative signatories, or activities relating to the open access books publishing ecosystem.
This list is not exhaustive but intended to show the variety of partners we engage with. It is losely grouped based on the main role of the partner, though they may span multiple roles. If your organisation or initiative is missing from this list and you’d like to be added, please contact us.
Directories, indexes, research and discovery tools
- Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
- CORE
- Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- Google Scholar
- OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit (OA Books Toolkit)
- OpenAPC
- Open Access Books Network (OABN)
- OpenAIRE
- Open Syllabus
- Think. Check. Submit.
- Unpaywall
Funding and support networks
- Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS)
- Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI)
- Jisc
- Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
- Lyrasis
- Open Book Collective (OBC)
Membership organisations
- Association of European University Presses (AEUP)
- Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA)
- OPERAS Research Infrastructure
Platforms, tools, and organisations supporting open publishing
- CERN
- Copim
- Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI)
- Huma-Num
- OpenEdition
- Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
- ScholarLed
- Thoth Open Metadata
- Ubiquity Press
- Unglue.it