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Local OA books need global visibility to be reusable across research communities.
Dr Sadiat Adetoro Salau calls for better links between repositories and global platforms.
EN 🔗 buff.ly/FgvEpCQ
🌐📖 #OAbooks #OpenScience

⏰Reminder⏰
The 1st regional Diamond Open Access Policy Forum Latin AMerica will take place on 20 March, 10:00–11:30 CST.
It will focus on how to build up a strong Diamond OA Policy.
✅Register: u2l.fr/pyhenu

⏰Reminder⏰

The 1st regional Diamond Open Access Policy Forum Africa will focus on policies promoting Diamond Publishing.

▶️Join one of the three events organized in English, French or Portuguese.

📝Register: almasiproject.org/news-and-eve...

#Savethedate for the 2nd cross-regional Diamond OA Policy Forum!

After the 1st edition last October and the regional forums, policy makers and funders from the 3 regions will discuss together on diamond publishing policies & funding.

🗓️Date: 30 March, 16:00-17:00 CET
✅Register: u2l.fr/cgad28

⏰Reminder⏰

The 1st regional Diamond Open Access Policy Forum Europe will take place next Monday, 9th March 2026, 16:00-17:30 CET.
It will focus on how to build up a strong Diamond OA Policy.

✅Register: u2l.fr/ivdk1r

GLOW-UP: the branding of both DOAB and OAPEN have been updated and if I say so myself* they are looking pretty good!
@doabooks.bsky.social + @oapenbooks.bsky.social

(*Disclosure - I act as a voluntary Ambassador for the organisations)
www.doabooks.org/en/article/d...

Thank you 😊🥳

A New Automated Deposit Workflow for OAPEN and DOAB: More Efficient, Faster, and Robust We are excited to share a significant update on the progress of our technical strategy. In direct response to the key findings from the Technical Review of the OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open…

"🤝 Working hand-in-hand with publishers to boost metadata quality & streamline deposits. Meet the tech team making it happen!

🔗 oapen.hypotheses.org/2073

#OpenAccess #Metadata #Collaboration #OABooks"

From editorial design to AI in scholarly publishing 📚
Join us on 7 March, from 9 to 17, at Publishing Houses 360° – From Inspiration to Concept to explore the future of academic publishing.
Free registration 👉 buff.ly/uHzQ50L
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing

Image promoting OxFOS26 event opening keynote session

At #OxFOS26 today @nielsstern.bsky.social will be discussing if evil AI scraping bots will be the end of #OA at 15:20 BST in 'AI and Open Science: Exploring the evolving tensions' session this afternoon.

There's still time to register & view the full week's programme: openaccess.ox.ac.uk/oxfos/

Promotional image for the GRAPHIA project event 'An Introduction to Large Language Models through GRAPHIA. Learn how LLMs can support social sciences & humanities research.'

Join @graphiaproject.bsky.social on 19 March at 14:00 CET for the webinar: 'An Introduction to Large Language Models through GRAPHIA.'

Learn how LLMs can support social sciences & humanities research.

Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #GRAPHIA #LLM #DigitalHumanities #SSH

To ensure open-access books thrive, they must be practical for researchers and institutions by adjusting evaluation incentives, clarifying funding, and streamlining workflows. Dr Adetoro Salau suggests altering incentives and investing in infrastructure to sustain #OAbooks. 🔗

DOAB logo - dark version

Have you noticed something different?

We're delighted to unveil our new look! Fun and friendly, we hope you enjoy interacting with a refreshed DOAB.

Read all about it in this press release: doabooks.org/en/article/d...

Making locally published scholarly books more visible helps strengthen global knowledge exchange 🌍
Open access ensures that African scholarship can be discovered, reused, and have impact beyond its place of publication.
🔗 buff.ly/uneL0EJ #OpenAccess #OAbooks

Cover of the Knowledge Exchange report Small European Publishers and the transition to Open Access publishing

How are small scientific publishers approaching the transition to #OpenAccess publishing models? What challenges do they face? What are key benefits of transitioning to OA?

Knowledge Exchange have explored these & other questions in our newly published report: zenodo.org/records/1795...

Meet Dr. Sadiat Adetoro Salau, DOAB Ambassador for Nigeria 🇳🇬.
She discusses enhancing visibility for locally published scholarly books in global research, focusing on capacity building and sustainable workflows. Discover how #OAbooks in Nigeria can become truly discoverable. 🔗 buff.ly/uneL0EJ #OA

Meet the OAPEN&DOAB Ambassadors An Interview with Alicia Wang DOAB Ambassador for China What motivated you to join DOAB as an ambassador? I want to contribute to the global transition towards open science by advocating for open access books so that more valuable publishing outputs can…

Still worth a read 👀
Our chat with DOAB Ambassador Alicia Wang highlights:

📘 Why OA books matter for global visibility
🤝 The role of community in Open Science
🌏 Connecting local action to global impact

Read more: buff.ly/UBGpMni

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #AcademicPublishing

Meet the OAPEN&DOAB Ambassadors An Interview with Alicia Wang DOAB Ambassador for China What motivated you to join DOAB as an ambassador? I want to contribute to the global transition towards open science by advocating for open access books so that more valuable publishing outputs can…

🌏 Real impact from open access occurs when it leads to actionable steps. Alicia Wang, a DOAB Ambassador, emphasizes that to expand OA books, they should be integrated into institutional systems and gain researchers'-
🔗: buff.ly/UBGpMni
#OA #OAbooks

The Network also includes @oapenbooks.bsky.social @openedition.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social @books.scielo.org @thoth-metadata.bsky.social, Fulcrum (@uofmpress.bsky.social), and the African Platform for Open Scholarship (APOS)

The Trusted Platform Network is a global initiative bringing together carefully selected aggregators & platforms that share our commitment to #qualityassurance, #peerreview standards & #OA principles to create a more seamless process for publishers to index their #OAbooks in DOAB

This partnership will provide hundreds of Iberoamerican university presses with streamlined, automated metadata integration to DOAB, significantly improving the discoverability and global reach of Spanish and Portuguese-language scholarly publications

We're delighted to announce that SIMEH (powered by Hipertexto – Netizen) has joined as the most recent member of the DOAB Trusted Platform Network!

Read the press release: doabooks.org/en/article/s...

A Spanish press release is also available: hipertexto.com.co/simeh-se-une...

Very thankful to Abrizah Abdullah and Kruti Trivedi for helping me making this session at the #CharlestonAsia conference on #openaccess books in Asia so insightful.

I see much potential for @doabooks.bsky.social supporting South East Asia open access book publishing initiatives.

At @oapenbooks.bsky.social we are struggling with bad AI robotic scraping behaviour. I am thankful to the organisers of #OxFOS26 for giving me the opportunity to share our concerns at their event on 2nd March.

认识 OAPEN 与 DOAB 大使：对 DOAB 中国大使 Alicia Wang 的一次访谈 问题一：是什么促使您加入 DOAB 并担任大使？…

开放获取不仅关乎获取渠道，更关乎连接不同社群，让研究成果走得更远 🌍📚

王轩（Alicia Wang）分享了开放获取图书在促进全球学术对话中的作用。

阅读全文 👉 oapen.hypotheses.org/2060

#开放获取 #开放科学 #知识共享

Meet the OAPEN&DOAB Ambassadors An Interview with Alicia Wang DOAB Ambassador for China What motivated you to join DOAB as an ambassador? I want to contribute to the global transition towards open science by advocating for open access books so that more valuable publishing outputs can…

Open access is about more than availability — it’s about connecting communities and enabling research to travel further 🌍📚

Alicia Wang reflects on the role OA books can play in fostering global scholarly dialogue.

Read the interview 👉 buff.ly/UBGpMni

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #Bibliodiversity

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