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he primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books. The directory will be open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.

"OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. We work with publishers to build a quality-controlled collection of open access books and provide services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation"

The aim of Sciencegate is to make scientific literature from the open access segment available free of charge on the internet. Sciencegate is an initiative of the company Point Software AG. In order to achieve this goal, scientific data from over 1,400 universities and open access journals are collected, categorised and refined in the Sciencegate internal database, which currently contains over 26 million data records relating to scientific articles. This places Sciencegate in the premier league of scientific document archiving and collecting within the framework of the OA Initiative. Newly published articles from all over the world are recorded and made available within just 24 hours via Sciencegate as a daily updated single point of entry for science and research.

Il Progetto PLEIADI (Portale per la Letteratura scientifica Elettronica Italiana su Archivi aperti e Depositi Istituzionali) scaturisce dalla collaborazione fra due importanti consorzi interuniversitari italiani, CASPUR e CILEA, nell'ambito del progetto AEPIC. Nato con l'obiettivo di realizzare una piattaforma nazionale per l'accesso centralizzato alla letteratura scientifica depositata negli archivi aperti italiani, PLEIADI si inserisce nel contesto della Budapest Open Access Initiative, che promuove l'accesso libero alla letteratura scientifica, e della Open Archives Initiative, che sviluppa e promuove gli standard per l'interoperabilità degli archivi.

OATD aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 600 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes over 1.5 million theses and dissertations.

The OpenDOAR service provides a quality-assured listing of open access repositories around the world. OpenDOAR staff harvest and assign metadata to allow categorisation and analysis to assist the wider use and exploitation of repositories. Each of the repositories has been visited by OpenDOAR staff to ensure a high degree of quality and consistency in the information provided: OpenDOAR is maintained by SHERPA Services, based at the Centre for Research Communications at the University of Nottingham.

Portale di risorse elettroniche in open access per le scienze umane costituito da 4 sezioni: OpenEdition Books, Openedition Journals, Hypothese, e Calenda.

The Thomas Gray Archive is a long-term research project dedicated to studying the life and work of eighteenth-century poet Thomas Gray (1716-1771). The Archive, hosted by the Bodleian Library, Oxford, strives to preserve and to make accessible a comprehensive corpus of high-quality, electronic primary sources and secondary materials. By using open, interoperable standards and formats widely used in the digital humanities, the Archive offers a structured platform for scholarly communication and collaboration and is developing as a living forum with the discussions, annotations, and contributions shared by the scholarly community. The Thomas Gray Archive is a freely accessible, educational resource solely intended for teaching, research, and study.

La più importante piattaforma francese per riviste e altri documenti in open access

Dickens Journals Online is a free, open-access resource. The project is based at the University of Buckingham.

BASE ist eine der weltweit größten Suchmaschinen speziell für frei im Sinne des Open Access zugängliche wissenschaftliche Dokumente im Internet. Betreiber der Suchmaschine BASE ist die Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld.

Banca dati delle tesi di dottorato e delle pubblicazioni in open access dell'Università di Parma

EThOS is the UK's national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK's doctoral research theses.It supports the UK Government's open access principle that publications resulting from publicly-funded research should be made freely available for all researchers, providing opportunities for further research. It demonstrates the quality of UK research, and helps attract students and research investment into UK Higher Education.

Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories: Library Management - E-book conversion - Syncing to e-book reader devices - Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form - Comprehensive e-book viewer - Content server for online access to your book collection

eScholarship provides a suite of open access, scholarly publishing services and research tools that enable departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars associated with the University of California to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship.

Digital Medievalist is an international web-based community for medievalists working with digital media. It was established in 2003 to help scholars meet the increasingly sophisticated demands faced by designers of contemporary digital projects. Digital Medievalist publishes an open access journal, sponsors conference sessions, runs an email discussion list and encourages best practice in digital medieval resource creation.

Culture Grid opens up a wealth of information from museums, galleries, libraries and archives: giving greater access to UK culture, arts and heritage. The Culture Grid is a new and unique online service from Collections Trust, the UK's independent organisation for collections. It enables more people to find out about and go on to visit and engage with the wonders within UK collections: improving the visibility, impact and value of all kinds of collections.

OpenEdition Books est une plateforme de livres en sciences humaines et sociales. Plus de la moitié d'entre eux est en libre accès. Des services complémentaires sont proposés via les bibliothèques et institutions abonnées.