How to Get Familiar with the DOAB Open Access Book Platform

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Ngày cập nhật gần nhất: 15/4/2026

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An Overview of the DOAB Platform

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With approximately 6,000 open access books—licensed openly, meeting academic standards, peer-reviewed prior to publication, and categorized into 17 major subject areas, DOAB offers a significant resource. This is especially valuable if your university library lacks sufficient materials for faculty, students, and researchers.

Steps

An Overview of the DOAB Platform

Visit the DOAB homepage at: http://www.doabooks.org/doab.

DOAB stands for Directory of Open Access Books, which translates to Thư mục các cuốn sách truy cập mở in Vietnamese. DOAB is a service provided by the OAPEN Foundation. The OAPEN Foundation is an international initiative dedicated to the publication of Open Access monographs, based at the National Library in The Hague. DOAB is being developed in close collaboration with Lars Bjørnshauge and Salam Baker Shanawa (director of SemperTool), who were also responsible for the development of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). SemperTool develops and maintains the DOAB system.

Introduction to the DOAB platform.

Tools for searching and browsing. This section has a dedicated article.

DOABlog. The official blog of the DOAB platform.

FAQ. Frequently asked questions about DOAB.

Support - Assistance. This is where DOAB calls for contributions from academic stakeholders to sustain their services on the platform. Publishers and academic institutions such as universities, libraries, and library consortia can support DOAB by becoming members or sponsors.

For publishers

Our sponsors - Our supporters. DOAB's sponsors include OpenEducation, BRILL, and Springer publishers.

About. A page introducing DOAB and providing essential related information. You might find it interesting to explore this section.

Contact - Reach out. This is the page where you can send an email to get in touch with DOAB.

Recommendations

University libraries are strongly encouraged to explore the Open Access, openly licensed book collection on DOAB. These books are fully downloadable in PDF format.

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