DOAB reaches 100 publishers

Directory of Open Access Books announced the 100th publisher on their platform: African Minds. Together, these publishers have made over 3.000 books available in Open Access through DOAB. Ronald Snijder recently wrote the article ‘Better Sharing Through Licenses? Measuring the Influence of Creative Commons Licenses on the Usage of Open Access Monographs’, published in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. It looks at the role of open licenses and the influence of DOAB. The article is freely available. Read it online or download it here. More in the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/bl468L.