With much of the recent focus in scholarly publishing on journal articles, books have been somewhat side-lined. However, resources are available to help researchers find and publish open access books.
Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) provides a variety of tools and advice for researchers, librarians, funders and publishers to help promote the transition to open access for academic books. OAPEN operates three platforms:
- the OAPEN Library – a central repository for hosting and disseminating OA books
- the OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit – a toolkit on OA book publishing for authors
- the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) – a discovery service indexing OA books
If you require any advice or information on Open Access Publishing or Research Data Management, please contact the Research Outputs Team or visit our webpages.
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