🚀 Interview launch!
Our latest OAPEN&DOAB Ambassador interview is now live ✨
Meet Alicia Wang, DOAB Ambassador for China 🇨🇳, sharing insights on open access books, quality, and community-building.
🔗 Read the interview: oapen.hypotheses.org?p=2041
#OpenAccess #OAbooks #DOAB #OAPEN

🎶 Musicology joins #GRAPHIA! We’ve received our first musicology #KnowledgeGraph: the ORGANS Knowledge Graph from the Polifonia project, via Quagga. Explore historic Dutch organs buff.ly/jORXJIv & add your own queries!
Want to learn how? Watch this video: buff.ly/MER0pHc #KGQA

“My contribution may be only a small step, but with strong commitment and collective community effort, I hope Indonesia will one day become a leading publisher of open access books in the world.”
Maria Lamury, DOAB Ambassador for Indonesia 🌏📚
#OpenAccess #OAbooks

OA books get less attention than journals — that’s a missed opportunity. Policy focus, investment in discovery, and stronger publisher-library collaboration can fix this.

Read Maria Lamury (DOAB Ambassador for Indonesia): buff.ly/4oMEeUm

#OpenAccess #OAbooks #Indonesia #OpenInfrastructure

“A more equitable open access future depends on inclusive, multilingual infrastructures.”
Final takeaway from our interview with Ramazan Turgut: buff.ly/uuB0iHr
#OpenAccess #OABooks #Bibliodiversity

🎙️ New interview published!
We spoke with Maria Lamury, DOAB Ambassador for Indonesia 🇮🇩, about her work in libraries, scholarly communication, and strengthening research integrity — from local initiatives to global open infrastructure.
👉 Read the interview: oapen.hypotheses.org?p=1985
#OpenAccess

“Good open infrastructure work begins locally — and scales globally.” From our interview with Ramazan Turgut: buff.ly/uuB0iHr #OA #OpenInfrastructure #OABooks
🇹🇷 “İyi bir açık altyapı çalışması yerelde başlar — ve küresel ölçekte büyür.” Ramazan Turgut ile yaptığımız röportajdan: buff.ly/tXD0t4c

“Global reach shouldn’t come at the expense of bibliodiversity — open infrastructures can support both.” From our interview with Ramazan Turgut: lnkd.in/eHei7_ef
#OpenAccess #Bibliodiversity #OABooks

🌎 First up of the "Meet our ambassadors" interview series is Ramazan Turgut from Turkey.
👤 Publishing specialist and academic working at the intersection of open science, scholarly communication, and digital research infrastructures.
🖋️ Read the full interview 🔗 lnkd.in/eHei7

Today at #Charleston2025 @nielsstern.bsky.social will be participating in a panel about AI bots alongside Tim Lloyd @liblynxllc.bsky.social, Tim McGeary @duke-university.bsky.social & Eric Hellman, Free Ebook Foundation @gluejar.com

We're looking forward to this timely discussion!

If you're at Charleston, pop along to booth 77 at the Vendor Showcase today between 10:00 - 17:30 EST to hear more about how DOAB, @oapenbooks.bsky.social & @doaj.bsky.social can support libraries in the US! #chs2025

We’re delighted to announce the publication of our 2024 Highlights!
It includes our stats, news about projects, partners, finances & technical developments.

Read more about it in this post: doabooks.org/en/article/o...

Access the full report: doabooks.org/en/article/o...

#UKSG2025 is in full swing! Come and find us at the Copim stand 33
#OAbooks @oapenbooks.bsky.social

We're delighted to announce the completion of the migration of DOAB to CERN's Data Center!

This milestone will increase our operational efficiency & reliability as vital #OAbooks infrastructure for the global research community.

Read the full press release: tinyurl.com/2wjt9s6j

One day to go until the #ALMASI project launch!

The EU-funded Almasi project seeks to develop a nonprofit, high-quality, and sustainable scholarly communication ecosystem across Africa, Europe, and Latin America.

Watch the livestream Tuesday 14 January @ 14:00 CET: www.youtube.com/live/uxOHBaV...

Hi there Bluesky👋

We're the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB to our friends), an open infrastructure service currently indexing 87,000+ #OAbooks.

Driven by our community, we work together to build trust in #OAbooks and #OAbook publishing.

Browse the Directory: directory.doabooks.org.