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+task_categories:
+- text-generation
+language:
+- en
+pretty_name: Directory of Open Access Books
+---
+# Directory of Open Access Books
+
+## Description
+The [Directory of Open Access Books](https://www.doabooks.org) (DOAB) is an online index of over 94,000 peer-reviewed books curated from trusted open-access publishers. 
+To collect the openly licensed content from DOAB, we retrieve metadata using their [official metadata feed](https://www.doabooks.org/en/doab/metadata-harvesting-and-content-dissemination).
+We then filter the collection to include only English-language books released under CC BY and CC BY-SA licenses. 
+The filtered books are downloaded in PDF format and converted to plaintext using the [Marker](https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker) PDF-to-text converter. 
+As an additional validation step, we manually create a whitelist of open license statements and retain only texts explicitly containing one of these statements in their front- or back-matter.
+Per-document license information is available in the `license` entry of the `metadata` field of each example. 
+Code for collecting, processing, and preparing this dataset is available in the [common-pile GitHub repo](https://github.com/r-three/common-pile).
+
+## Dataset Statistics
+| Documents | UTF-8 GB |
+|-----------|----------|
+| 474,445 | 12.5 |
+
+## License Issues
+While we aim to produce datasets with completely accurate licensing information, license laundering and inaccurate metadata can cause us to erroneously assign the incorrect license to some documents (for further discussion of this limitation, please see [our paper](TODO link)). If you believe you have found an instance of incorrect licensing in this dataset, please [start a discussion](https://github.com/r-three/common-pile/discussions/new) on this repository. 
+
+## Other Versions
+This is the "raw" version of the DOAB dataset. If you are looking for the filtered version used to train [Comma v0.1](https://huggingface.co/common-pile/comma-v0.1), you can find it [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common-pile/doab_filtered).
+
+## Citation
+If you use this dataset, please cite:
+```bibtex
+@article{kandpal2025common,
+  title={{The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text}},
+  author={Nikhil Kandpal and Brian Lester and Colin Raffel and Sebastian Majstorovic and Stella Biderman and Baber Abbasi and Luca Soldaini and Enrico Shippole and A. Feder Cooper and Aviya Skowron and Shayne Longpre and Lintang Sutawika and Alon Albalak and Zhenlin Xu and Guilherme Penedo and Loubna Ben  and Elie Bakouch and John David  and Honglu Fan and Dashiell Stander and Guangyu Song and Aaron Gokaslan and John Kirchenbauer and Tom Goldstein and Brian R and Bhavya Kailkhura and Tyler Murray},
+  journal={arXiv preprint},
+  year={2025}
+}
+```