FORM is dedicated to the advancement of Open Science within the Arab region, but we know we cannot succeed without the support of the wider Open Science community. We are therefore very excited to announce our newest institutional members, Online Library of the Open Access Books (OAPEN) & Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)!

OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. We work with publishers to build a quality-controlled collection of open access books and provide services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.

DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

We very much look forward to collaborating with our two new members, as well as our other members in the coming months and years.

If you would like your organisation to become a Member of FORM, more information is available here: