UPLOpen joins the DOAB Trusted Platform Network
The Hague, The Netherlands, 9 September 2026. The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is delighted to announce that UPLOpen has joined as the most recent member of the Trusted Platform Network as of 1 September 2026.
This partnership marks another major milestone in expanding global access to high-quality open access scholarly books. By joining the Network, UPLOpen will offer automated, streamlined metadata integration with DOAB for hundreds of university presses, significantly enhancing the discoverability and worldwide reach of their publications.
“Joining the DOAB Network is a major milestone for UPLOpen” said Peter Potter, Vice President for Open Access Publishing at Paradigm Publishing Services, “It reflects both our dedication to Open Access publishing and to collective action as a necessary means to achieving a sustainable publishing ecosystem.”
“We are delighted to welcome UPLOpen to the DOAB Trusted Platform Network” said Niels Stern, Managing Director of OAPEN Foundation and Co-Director of DOAB. “Its inclusion significantly strengthens the Network and reinforces DOAB’s commitment to supporting the open access books ecosystem by connecting with, and providing services to, the growing number of platforms that support academic publishers worldwide.”
This collaboration reflects DOAB’s ongoing commitment to expanding its global reach and ensuring that open access scholarly publishing infrastructure continues to serve diverse academic communities worldwide.
Created to streamline indexing in DOAB for OA book publishers, the Trusted Platform Network gathers prominent platforms and aggregators worldwide. Every network member shares DOAB’s dedication to OA principles, rigorous peer review standards, and quality assurance. Current platforms participating in the Network include: the OAPEN Library, OpenEdition, Project MUSE, SciELO Books, JSTOR, African Platform for Open Scholarship (APOS), Fulcrum, Thoth Open Metadata, SIMEH: Hipertexto – Netizen, and UNE, Unión de Editoriales Universitarias Españolas.
About DOAB
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access (OA) books and helps users to find trusted OA book publishers. DOAB was established by the OAPEN Foundation in 2013. Today, it’s a service of the DOAB Foundation, a not-for-profit Dutch foundation registered at the National Library in The Hague, established by OAPEN Foundation and OpenEdition in 2019. The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of open access books. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
About UPLOpen
UPLOpen 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.
