Building the future of OAPEN and DOAB: Our technical roadmap for 2026

Since the OAPEN Library was launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2010, our organisation has grown from a bold idea into a global infrastructure pillar for open access (OA) books. Today, more than 40,000 peer-reviewed titles are hosted on our platform, discovered by millions of readers worldwide, trusted by hundreds of publishers and over 300 supporting libraries. The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) was launched by OAPEN in 2013 and became an independent foundation in 2019, jointly ma...