DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
The
Directory of Open Access Books (
http://www.doabooks.org/) is a service of OAPEN Foundation.
The OAPEN Foundation is an international initiative dedicated to Open
Access monograph publishing, based at the National Library in The
Hague. DOAB is being developed in close cooperation 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 DOAB system.
DOAB
supports the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI-PMH).
Service providers and libraries can use the protocol to harvest the
metadata of the records from DOAB for inclusion in their collections
and catalogues.
