[BOAI] DOAB Newsletter - August 2012

[Iryna Kuchma]

[Forwarded message from Janneke Adema]

** Apologies for cross-posting **

The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) invites you to participate in a
survey.

*Invitation to take part in the DOAB survey *

We are pleased to invite you to take part in a survey to help us learn
about your needs and expectations with respect to the services, workflows
and protocols that we are developing for the Directory of Open Access Books
(DOAB).

The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for Open
Access monographs and a metadata dissemination service. DOAB provides a
searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published
under an Open Access business model, with links to the full texts of the
publications at the publisher’s website or repository. DOAB allows
aggregators, libraries and other service providers to harvest metadata on
Open Access monographs in order to integrate these in their catalogues and
services.

This questionnaire contains approximately 15 questions and takes about 10
minutes to complete. The collected data will be anonymised.

To participate, please click on this link:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DOAB

Thank you in advance for your kind contribution, which will help us improve
DOAB further. For any further questions regarding the survey or DOAB,
please contact: info at oapen.org

*DOAB online discussion*

>From the 9th until the 22nd of July DOAB hosted an online discussion on
Open Access books with publishers, academics, librarians, and participants
from the wider Open Access and publishing community. During these two weeks
a variety of topics have been discussed ranging from what is an Open Access
book, to issues related to quality control, peer review, copyright, and
business and funding models for Open Access books. The discussion provided
us with some valuable insights that will be used to formulate
recommendations for the DOAB and that will guide further research.

As we felt the mailing list on which the discussion took place might serve
a valuable function outside and beyond the context of this discussion, we
will continue it as a place for conversation, consultation, and
announcements with respect to Open Access books. To subscribe to the DOAB
mailing list please follow this link:
https://listserv.gwdg.de/mailman/listinfo/doab
For those who were unable to take part in the discussion, archives of the
discussion have been kept here, and digests of the daily discussion have
been posted to the DOABlog.

*DOAB search box on your website*

We developed a search box for Libraries and other information resources.
Through this service, users can search and access DOAB directly. More
information in the About section at DOAB:
http://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=about&uiLanguage=en#searchBox
*
MARCXML metadata format*

To enable easier incorporation into library catalogues, we have added the
MARCXML metadata format the OAI-PMH interface. More information in the
About section at DOAB:
http://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=about&uiLanguage=en#metadata

*Welcoming new OA publishers and books*

We are happy to welcome many new OA book publishers who have joined DOAB in
the last few months. There are now more than 1100 OA books from 30
publishers, with more publishers pending.

*4th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing*

OASPA, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, has announced its
4th conference. COASP 2012 will take place from September 19th to the 21st,
and will be held at the Gerbeaud House in Budapest, Hungary. This years’
conference will be of special interest for Open Access book publishers, as
part of the program will be dedicated to book publishing. Further details
about the conference can be found at http://oaspa.org/conference/.

For more information, please contact Eelco Ferwerda, director of the OAPEN
Foundation, e.ferwerda at oapen.org
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