[open-humanities] DOAB invite to online discussion on Open Access books

[info at oapen.nl]

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We would like to invite you to take part in an open, online and moderated
discussion that will be hosted by the DOAB (The Directory of Open Access
Books), currently in its beta-version, which will take place from the 9th
until the 22nd of July. This online discussion with publishers, scholars
and the wider Open Access and publishing community will focus on getting
an overview of opinions and views that exist on Open Access books, and
quality control, peer review and the Open Access publishing of books.

The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for Open
Access monographs. DOAB provides a searchable index to peer-reviewed
monographs and edited volumes published under an Open Access business
model, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s
website or repository.

The goal of this discussion will not be to decide on a definition of what
constitutes an Open Access book or on what the proper way to publish an OA
book is. Although the data gathered through discussions on these topics
will be used to formulate recommendations for the DOAB, the idea of this
discussion is more to establish a set of ‘lowest common denominators’,
requirements for entry that are flexible and can change, following the
processual nature of both books and the discourse on Open Access books.
This discussion is thus predominantly meant to gain an overview of the
views and opinions that exist in the scholarly and publishing community
with respect to Open Access books.

To subscribe to the DOAB mailing list, where the discussion will take
place, please follow this link:
https://listserv.gwdg.de/mailman/listinfo/doab

The discussion will take place over two weeks, but feel free to jump in at
any time that is convenient for you. Archives of the discussion will be
kept here, and digests of the daily discussion will be posted to the
DOABlog.

We will start off the discussion on Monday the 9th with an introductory
email. The main questions that will lead the discussion are:

What is an Open Access book?
What is an Open Access book publisher?
What kind of copyright licenses are suitable to use with an OA book? What
kind of quality control do we need for OA books?
What kinds of peer review are seen as authorative?

However, please feel free to add questions, or suggest other topics for
discussion.

For any further questions, or if you are having problems subscribing to
the mailing list, please contact: info at oapen.nl