Furthermore, OA publications from funded research projects will be available that contain funding acknowledgements and have been reported by the academic publishers participating in the OAPEN Library. OAPEN will also provide access to metadata of publications in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) as discovery service. By consolidating funded book publications on a centralised basis, the DFG aims to improve the visibility, discoverability and long-term archiving of research results generated by its funding in order to promote transparency.
The OAPEN Library is a repository for open access monographs operated by the OAPEN Foundation and currently comprising 26,000 titles, approximately a quarter of which are in German. It is a non-commercial global infrastructure which draws on the joint support of libraries, academic publishers and research funders to provide an important service in terms of ensuring the visibility, discoverability and availability of OA books. University libraries use the metadata that is made openly available by the OAPEN Foundation for indexing purposes and to be able to provide OA monographs in their library catalogues, for example. Forschungszentrum Jülich supports the DFG in identifying publications and supplying metadata to the OAPEN Library. The OAPEN Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation based in the Netherlands, with its registered office at the National Library in The Hague.
