Projects

DOAB is involved in several initiatives for open access books:

• Open Book Futures (OBF) (May 2023 – May 2025) - Open Book Futures project (OBF) builds on the work of the COPIM project, where both OAPEN and DOAB participate. DOAB will be active in connecting with publishers as part of this project, especially in the Global South. The project is 36 months and ends April 2026. It is funded through Arcadia and Research England Development Fund.
• ALMASI Project (Aligning and Mutualizing Nonprofit Open Access Publishing Services Internationally) (January 2025 – December 2028) seeks to develop a nonprofit, high-quality, and sustainable scholarly communication ecosystem spanning three regions: Africa, Europe, and Latin America. Involving 15 partners from across three continents, it will work towards understanding the current landscape of nonprofit OA publishing in the three regions and co-designing and aligning measures for quality standards, training resources, and institutional and national policy development. It is funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101188192.
• DOAB in Africa project is a small-scale DOAB internal initiative that aims to address African publishers’ equitable access to the OA distribution channels and provide equitable access to the discoverability services for all publishers that fulfil its requirements.