Draft:OAPEN Foundation
Open access organisation
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The OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) Foundation is a non-profit organisation that supports open access publishing of peer-reviewed scholarly books[1], particularly in the humanities and social sciences[2], by providing infrastructure[3] for hosting, dissemination, and the long-term preservation of open access monographs and edited collections[4][5]. It is a founding member of the European research infrastructure OPERAS, serving as the national node for the Netherlands[6][7]. It is based in the National Library at The Hague, Netherlands. Its current director is Niels Stern.
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Establishment
OAPEN began as a co-funded European Union project, under the EU's eContentplus programme, which aimed to improve the access and use of digital content across Europe[8]. The original OAPEN project, which ran from 2008 to 2011, aimed to explore and promote sustainable models for open access monograph publishing in Europe[9]. After the project’s conclusion, the OAPEN Foundation was created as an independent, non-profit organisation under Dutch law, to continue this work and to provide a permanent infrastructure for OA books[10].
Projects
- The OAPEN Library: A global digital library for hosting and disseminating scholarly OA books, free to use, no registration required.
- Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB): A free global discovery service developed in partnership with OpenEdition to index peer-reviewed OA books
- OAPEN Open Access (OA) Books Toolkit: A free resource intended to help authors to better understand open access book publishing and to increase trust in open access books.
Partnerships
OAPEN has a number of partnerships in the fields of research and scholarly communications across Europe, including: