Oct 20 | 13:00-14:00 (CEST):
Diamond OA books – shining new perspectives
Niels Stern, Managing Director of OAPEN Foundation and Co-director of DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books)
This presentation will give an overview of recent developments in Diamond Open Access (DOA) book publishing by sharing some insights from ongoing EU-funded projects and other initiatives. More specifically the presentation will showcase how the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) supports the development of standards for DOA books and collaborate with institution-based DOA initiatives across Europe and beyond to advance this type of book publishing.
Niels Stern is Managing Director of the OAPEN Foundation and Co-director of DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books). He has worked in scholarly publishing for more than twenty years and was a co-founder of the OAPEN project in 2008. For several years he was also engaged in policymaking at the Nordic Council of Ministers. Since 2014 he has served the European Commission as an independent expert on open science and e-infrastructures. Before re-joining OAPEN in 2021, he was Head of Department at the Royal Danish Library overseeing licensing and e-acquisitions for five universities and responsible for the national library consortium in Denmark. He is a member of the OPERAS Executive Assembly, Vice-Chair of the Open Book Collective, and serves on several advisory boards and committees.