In June, our Tech team visited @cern.bsky.social to exchange ideas on #AI, bots, #OpenInfrastructure & explore future innovations for OAPEN & @doabooks.bsky.social The visit reinforced challenges & opportunities the #OpenScience community shares Read more from Wiktor👉 oapen.hypotheses.org/2437

OAPEN goes to Switzerland: A visit to our partner CERN

Riding a heat wave  The OAPEN Tech team met with the Open Science (OS) teams at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, on the 25th and 26th of June. After rebuilding the team following several staffing changes ...

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🧵1/4 We are undertaking maintenance and enhancement work on the OAPEN Library Dashboard over the summer to further improve its performance, reliability, and user experience.

How might established nonprofit presses helpfully meet existing needs in diamond publishing, particularly for smaller institutional & community-based publishers? These are the questions asked by @annualreviews.bsky.social @uofmpress.bsky.social & @universitypress.cambridge.org in a workshop.

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📚 Katina Magazine's latest: Earlier this year, three nonprofit presses convened a workshop to explore how established nonprofits might meet existing needs in diamond publishing. Here are some of the tensions and opportunities they surfaced.

This week @nielsstern.bsky.social will be attending the Beijing International Book Fair from 17-21 June. We're looking forward to connecting with stakeholders from around China to promote #OAbooks! With thanks to our wonderful ambassador Alicia Wang for her support. #BIBF2026 #BeijingBookFair

Bots now generate most web traffic, accounting roughly for 60-80%. In our latest blog post, we share how we are managing this shift for OAPEN Library & @doabooks.bsky.social using Cloudflare & Anubis to protect stability while keeping #OA sustainable. Read more: oapen.hypotheses.org/2287

Traffic management and bot protection for the OAPEN Library and DOAB: Implementing Cloudflare and Anubis

Over the past few years, the nature of internet traffic has shifted fundamentally. What was once predominantly human-driven web is now increasingly shaped by automated activity. Recent data from CERN ...

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We're delighted to our new partnership with @openaire.bsky.social to strengthen the visibility, discoverability & monitoring of #OABooks through improved metadata exchange, interoperability & shared #OpenInfrastructure practices. Read the full press release 👉 tinyurl.com/5fp4d2kb

OpenAIRE@openaire.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#OAbooks are open, but often disconnected from the wider research landscape. OpenAIRE & @oapenbooks.bsky.social are changing that: → better usage data → stronger interoperability → books linked to projects, data & funding 👉 making OA books more visible, measurable, and usable 🔗 shorturl.at/CSAOa

We're pleased to share more about our involvement in the AEGIS-OA project in a new blog post. We're looking forward to working alongside 24 other partners with the goal of strengthening #DiamondOA for #books! Read more 👉 oapen.hypotheses.org/2233 @eudch.bsky.social

We’ve published an update on recent platform stability issues affecting the OAPEN Library. Learn about the measures we’ve taken to protect users from being affected by aggressive content-harvesting #bots & how you can help ensure uninterrupted access to #OAbooks. 🔗 oapen.hypotheses.org/2217

Building the Future of OAPEN and DOAB: Our Technical Roadmap For 2026 (via @oapenbooks.bsky.social) oapen.hypotheses.org/2144 #scholcomm #libraries #oa #books #monographs @doabooks.bsky.social

Wonderful to see this expansion of the DOAB Trusted Platform Network, doabooks.org/en/trusted-p.... Warm welcome to Unión de Editoriales Universitarias Españolas (UNE)!

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)@doabooks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thankful to the colleagues at the @curtinuniversity.bsky.social for the important review they undertook last year of the OAPEN and DOAB infrastructures. Their recommendations have become an integral and very important part of our technical roadmap as you can read in this blog post lnkd.in/e6nFb5FU

So much happened at OAPEN and DOAB during 2025 which you can read about in our Highlights 2025. Overwhelming but also reassuring to look back while we are already well into 2026. Thanks to our brilliant team, our fantastic partners, to all the libraries, publishers, and funders supporting us.

OAPEN Foundation@oapenbooks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We're delighted to announce that today we published our joint 2025 Highlights with @doabooks.bsky.social, an annual report presenting an overview of key developments across our two #OAbooks infrastructures. Check it out: www.oapen.org/article/oape... Press release: oapen.org/article/oape...

Smaller publishers are vital to scholarly communication. Their ability to transition sustainably to #OA is constrained by structural inequities of scale, resources, and systemic barriers.

Knowledge Exchange@knowledgeexchange.bsky.social · 6mo ago

How are small scientific publishers approaching the transition to #OpenAccess publishing models? What challenges do they face? What are key benefits of transitioning to OA? Knowledge Exchange have explored these & other questions in our newly published report: zenodo.org/records/1795...

🚀 We’ve launched a new deposit workflow! Faster. Clearer. More intuitive. ✨ Find out what’s new and how it improves the submission experience. 👉🔗 buff.ly/6L5p5la #OpenAccess #Research #Repositories #ScholComm

Thank you for your understanding as we carry out this essential work to improve service reliability. #OAPEN #OpenAccess #Infrastructure #ScholarlyCommunication #Metadata #Libraries

🔗 All publications and data will remain accessible via persistent Handle links, even if browsing and search are affected. ✅ This maintenance affects only the OAPEN Library; the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) will remain fully operational.

🔧 As part of our ongoing technical maintenance, we’ll be re-indexing Solr for the OAPEN Library this weekend. Solr powers browsing and search in the OAPEN Library via DSpace. Periodic full re-indexing helps maintain performance, stability, and accurate discovery.

At @oapenbooks.bsky.social we are struggling with bad AI robotic scraping behaviour. I am thankful to the organisers of #OxFOS26 for giving me the opportunity to share our concerns at their event on 2nd March.

Very thankful to Abrizah Abdullah and Kruti Trivedi for helping me making this session at the #CharlestonAsia conference on #openaccess books in Asia so insightful. I see much potential for @doabooks.bsky.social supporting South East Asia open access book publishing initiatives.

One week to go until #CharlestonAsia! @chashub.bsky.social If you're there, join @nielsstern.bsky.social on the panel 'Open Access Books in Aisa - What's the Status?' with pannelists from Nepal and India 🌏 Full conference agenda 👉 buff.ly/j5VuHAw

Important update for our community. More details in the blog below 👇 #OAbooks #OpenInfrastructure #OpenAccess #AI

OAPEN Foundation@oapenbooks.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New blog 'Protecting Stability and Access: How We’re Safeguarding the OAPEN Library and DOAB Against Bot Traffic Surges'. Read this important update regarding the temporary access issues that some of our community may have recently experienced on our platforms. #OAbooks #OpenInfrastructure #AI

Starting now at the Charleston Conference @nielsstern.bsky.social participating in the ‘Bot war’ panel #Chs2025 #Charleston2025 @gluejar.com

Thrilled to share this blog post oapen.hypotheses.org/1733 introducing our new Head of Technology at @oapenbooks.bsky.social and @doabooks.bsky.social, Anna Wałek - a warm welcome, Anna.

⚠️Technical work in progress You may have recently experienced some instability on our platform. This was caused by exceptionally high levels of automated traffic. Our team has implemented solutions that are gradually restoring stability. We apologise for any inconvenience & thanks for your patience.

⚠️Technical work in progress You may have recently experienced some instability on our platform. This was caused by exceptionally high levels of automated traffic. Our team has implemented solutions that are gradually restoring stability. We apologise for any inconvenience & thanks for your patience.

Truly thankful to @barbarabudrich.bsky.social, Nicola Parkin (@tandfresearch.bsky.social), @rupertgatti.bsky.social and Jon Elwell (@ebsco.bsky.social) for making the @oapenbooks.bsky.social 15-year anniversary event at Frankfurter @buchmesse.de so festive and insightful. Congratulations to all 🥳

Next week we'll be at @buchmesse.de where the OAPEN Library was first launched 15 years ago. Our Managing Director, @nielsstern.bsky.social reflects on the past, present, and future of OAPEN in this jubilee blog post to mark the occasion.

Marking the 15th anniversary of the OAPEN Library

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the OAPEN Library, which was launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2010.  At this year’s fair, we invite you to attend our half hour panel discussion on ‘The E...

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We’re thrilled to unveil OAPEN’s refreshed visual identity – including a new logo – that better reflects who we’ve become, what we stand for, and where we’re headed. Read more about it in the announcement: oapen.org/article/intr...

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OAPEN Foundation@oapenbooks.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Coming up now at the #OASPA2025 poster session, @nielsstern.bsky.social will be presenting on behalf of the @operaseu.bsky.social #OABooks SIG. Preview the poster, 'Building a Stronger OA Book Ecosystem' below!

The @operaseu.bsky.social community is vibrant & doing important work to push #DiamondOA forward, inc. the OA Books Special Interest Group that we are part of. It's free to become an Ordinary Member, with a lightweight application process. Thanks @nielsstern.bsky.social for presenting our work!

OAPEN Foundation@oapenbooks.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Coming up now at the #OASPA2025 poster session, @nielsstern.bsky.social will be presenting on behalf of the @operaseu.bsky.social #OABooks SIG. Preview the poster, 'Building a Stronger OA Book Ecosystem' below!