20 May 2021
The DOAB Foundation and OAPEN Foundation have announced a new partnership with LYRASIS. Through this partnership, DOAB, OAPEN and LYRASIS will establish a pathway for U.S. institutions to support the continuing development of open infrastructure services for open access (OA) books.
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), a directory of 42,000+ peer-reviewed OA books from around 500 publishers worldwide, is a discovery service for open access books which can be easily integrated into library catalogs. All DOAB metadata is freely available to libraries. “The DOAB team is thrilled to start working with LYRASIS, thanks to this new partnership. Following our agreement with Project MUSE last year, we are excited to now have a new opportunity to collaborate with US libraries and make open access books even more discoverable to their users.” - Pierre Mounier, Deputy director of OpenEdition and co-director of DOAB”
LYRASIS, a global non-profit membership organization providing technology and content services for libraries, archives, museums and research communities, is a leader in supporting OA resources and content models in the United States and beyond. As home to more than 1200 library members and users, LYRASIS is uniquely positioned to reach the institutions that will most benefit from the collections. “We are excited to work with DOAB and OAPEN to bring these vital resources to U.S. libraries. For nearly a decade, open access resources have been a strategic priority for our team,” says Celeste Feather, Senior Director of Content and Scholarly Communication Initiatives at LYRASIS. “This new partnership marks a major step toward unifying open access initiatives and moving toward a new paradigm of open worldwide.”