Intechopen books in the directory of open access books. As with open access journals, there are different business models for funding open access books, including publication charges, institutional support, library publishing, and consortium models. Directory of open access books ebooks the university. Our readership spans scientists, professors, researchers, librarians, and students, as well as business professionals. Not only does ebsco support the directory of open access journals with a generous financial donation every year, their ebsco discovery service and ebscohost platforms generate a lot more referrals to doaj than any other online platform. Journals and their articles are categorised using a subset of the library of congress classification. Directory of open access books research support posted 4 weeks ago 10 views. Intellectopen monographs and journals are made available for immediate access following publication on a variety of platforms, ensuring excellent visibility and discoverability. The growing demand for open source content and open access publishing options in the tech community has led apress to offer authors and publishing partners the option to publish open access books.
Intechopen has added a first batch of around 2000 of our 4300 titles to the directory of open access books doab. There are various open access aggregators that list open access journals or articles. The open access edition is made available via oapen library. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Oaspa open access scholarly publishers association. The book list can be searched or browsed to find titles of interest. The directory of open access books is a service of oapen foundation. Scoss funding faq support for publishers our supporters operas certification service about contact advanced search. A nonprofit trade association representing the interests of open access journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines. Open access oa books available through the directory of open access books doab are investigated and the number of titles, the distribution of subjects, languages, publishers, publication years, licensing patterns, etc. Directory of open access books international institute for. Authors who choose this model mostly have a grant at their disposal that allows them to finance the production of their book. Road, the directory of open access scholarly resources issn. The directory enables the search and discovery of open access books, increasing visibility for authors and helping their books reach a broader audience.
Open access publishing university of california, davis. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. We are delighted to work with this important research center to make its scholarly works freely accessible to researchers. Directory of open access books is a joint service of oapen, openedition, cnrs and aixmarseille universite, provided by doab foundation in cooperation with sempertool 2020 sempertool. Federating posts shared by the open access tracking project. Directory of open access books doab university library. Road the directory of open access scholarly resources synthesizes information about open access journals and is a subset of the issn register. The project defines open access journals as scientific and scholarly journals making all their content available for free. When the book is accepted, our inhouse development editors and the rest of our editorial team will work with the author to help him or her create the best book possible. Directory of open access books penn state university. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. As more open access journals are being published, and as many journals transition to open access, these titles are.
The directory of open access books doab is a francodutch foundation jointly run by the oapen infrastructure, aixmarseille university and the cnrs. It is most commonly applied to scholarly journal articles, but it is also increasingly being provided to theses, book chapters, and scholarly monographs. In the golden road scenario the book appears in full open access from the first day of publication. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their open access books to doab. Directory of open access booksdoab central library. Search the worlds most comprehensive index of fulltext books. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Secondary fund available for publication in level 2 hybrid journals as of january 2016. Open access books relevant to the study and practice of theological librarianship. Clip with the migration to a new platform, we were able to introduce several new. It enables you to search the description of the books and enables you to download the books from the site of the publisher.
Open access collection of outstanding outofprint books in the humanities available as free e books courtesy of the humanities open book project. To date our community has made over 100 million downloads. Directory of open access books lloyd sealy library at john. The oapen foundation is a notforprofit organisation based in the netherlands, with its registered office at the national library in the hague. As the directory of open access books has reached 10,000 titles in its catalogue in late 2017, it reflects an accelerated pace at which publishers join this open access initiative and make available their books and chapters to international audiences. All funding is via donations, 22% of which comes from sponsors and 78% from members and publisher members. Clip with the migration to a new platform, we were able to introduce several new features and improve existing ones. Metadata information about the theses comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. About contact by title by subject by publisher expand subject tree. Springer started incorporating oa lines in august 2012, and is a sponsor of the directory of open access books doab.
Provides resources that guide and support innovative library services and enhance professional development. Open access is a relatively new concept for books publishing. By title by subject by publisher academia press 35 books. The directory of open access journals doaj is a website that hosts a communitycurated list of open access journals, maintained by infrastructure services for open access is4oa. Intechopen books in the directory of open access books intechopen. Architecture and design arts asian and pacific studies business and economics chemistry classical and ancient near eastern studies computer sciences cultural studies engineering general interest geosciences history industrial chemistry islamic and middle eastern studies jewish studies law library and information science, book studies life. Our goal remains the same to provide researchers access to the best scholarly content available. The doaj best practice guide is a web resource that provides selection criteria, resources and tools for the identification of reputable open access journals to support researchers, publishers and librarians in their search of best practice and transparency standards. You can either type a keyword into the box below or click the arrows in the tree to expand and collapse subjects. Its equivalent for journals is the directory of open access journals doaj. The oapen foundation is an international initiative dedicated to open access monograph publishing, based at the national library in the hague. Directory of open access books doab is a discovery service that points to open access books that can be found elsewhere. The oapen deposit service supports open access policies of research.
Our open access academic books and chapters on average receive seven times more downloads, 50% more citations, and ten times more online mentions compared to non open access books. Average download count for books included in the knowledge unlatched pilot collection as of 2016. Open monographs broaden access to published scholarship, raise its visibility and impact, and offer features such as multimedia capability. Read more about why you should publish an open access book. At oup we recognise the continuing importance of the monograph as a valuable form of scholarly communication, especially in the humanities and social sciences. We are sponsors of the directory of open access books, for increased discoverability of open access books. The directory enables the search and download of open access books, increasing discoverability for authors and helping their books reach a broader audience. Norman campus office of the vice president for research publication support program. Apr 11, 2020 home listings directory of open access books. Book funding limited to publishers included in the directory of open access books doab which maintain open access scholarly publishers association oaspa membership or code of conduct compliance. Green open access to academic books seems to be a marginal phenomenon.
We work with external partners and the scholarly community to lead the way for open access books. Doab aims to increase discoverability of open access books. A book proposal is sent to apress, and the proposal goes through the same screening process as our non open access proposals do. Open access is when academic research is made freely available for anyone to read and reuse. Directory of open access books lloyd sealy library at john jay college of criminal justice. Once in a title you can download in epub or mobi format. The truth about mobile phone and wireless radiation dr devra davis duration. Springer nature is a member of oapen, a dedicated platform for hosting, dissemination, discovery and preservation of open access books. Oapen works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.
It also proves a directory of open access works via directory of open access books doab. The sample comprised 10,866 oa books, which were available through the doab as of february 24, 2018. Directory of open access books penn state university libraries. Our open access journals list helps author to find right journal for their manuscript publication. It does not include delayed open access journals, hybrid open access journals, or related collections or indexing services true openaccess journals can be split into two categories. Journals directory list of academic journals, open access. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues.
Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books. Open access is an initiative that aims to make scientific research freely available to all. A directory of open access books from academic publishers on a wide variety of academic topics. Required deposit in institutional repository, shareok.
From september 2018, all intellect ebooks will be optimised for blind and print impaired readers. Ebscos strong support of both open access and open source make them unique among library vendors worldwide. All fields, title, issnisbn, author, keywords, abstract. In the open access publishing model, authors will benefit from all apress editorial and marketing expertise as well as our editing and author. Feb 24, 2016 the truth about mobile phone and wireless radiation dr devra davis duration. Road is a service offered by the issn international centre with the support of the communication and information sector of unesco launched in december 20, road provides a free access to those issn bibliographic records which describe scholarly resources in open access. The following are just a few open access monograph publishing options. All books in doab have a full oa license, making them free to share. Its based on principles of collaboration, unobstructed discovery, and, most importantly, scientific progression. Open access is changing the landscape of academic research and publishing. It enables the identification, browsing and search for repositories, based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held.
Number of oa books and participating publishers listed in the directory of open access books doab. The directory of open access books is an online directory that indexes and provides access to these high quality, open access monographs. Funding for books limited to dbh levels 1 and 2 publishers with mandatory directory of open access books doab indexing. The list contains notable journals which have a policy of full open access. We are intechopen, the worlds leading publisher of open access books. The oapen foundation is a notforprofit organisation based in the netherlands, with its.
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