OAPEN
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OAPEN
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Database
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Date
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2008
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Description
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The OAPEN Foundation is a not-for-profit organization based in the Netherlands, with its registered office at the National Library in The Hague. OAPEN is dedicated to open access, peer-reviewed books.
OAPEN operates three platforms:
OAPEN Library - a central repository for hosting and disseminating OA books
OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit - a toolkit on OA book publishing for authors
Directory of Open Access Books - a discovery service indexing OA books, in partnership with Open Edition
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) was developed as a 30-month targeted project co-funded by the EU in its e Contentplus-program (2008-2010). The goal of the project was to achieve a sustainable publication model for academic books in humanities and social sciences and to improve the visibility and usability of high quality academic research in Europe. After the close of the project, OAPEN continued its activities as a foundation.
OAPEN Foundation was established by the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the University of Leiden (UL), the University library of Utrecht University (UU), the Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW), the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) and Amsterdam University Press (AUP).
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.
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Eng.
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University of Amsterdam
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Database
Virtual Library
