The role as Chair of OAPEN will soon become vacant as the current Chair will be stepping down. This opening comes at an exciting time when a momentum for open access to academic books is growing and OAPEN’s role in this landscape is expanding. Interested candidates should announce their interest before 6 May 2023. There is no remuneration for the position. We also encourage and welcome named suggestions of possibly suited candidates.
At the beginning of this year, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) concluded a service level agreement for the use of the OAPEN Library as a repository for DFG-funded open access books. From Spring 2023 onwards, the library will contain monographs and anthologies funded through the Open Access Publication Funding programme and produced in connection with DFG research funding.
In 2021, for the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and the OAPEN Library we have seen growing interest and uptake amongst the German scholarly community. In no small part, thanks to growing support of the German library community and the addition of new German titles and publishers, a report of which we include below.
The OAPEN Foundation is delighted to share the news that it has entered into an agreement with SCOAP³ for Books to provide a set of dedicated services around its open access book collection in Particle Physics.
30 June, 2021 In 2020, the OAPEN Foundation celebrated its 10 year anniversary as an open infrastructure service for open access (OA) books, providing services to publishers, libraries and research funders. The mission of OAPEN to increase discoverability of OA books and to build trust around OA books has been leading us through a challenging year marked by the COVID-19 pandemic.
17 June, 2021. Recently, we decided to deprecate the MARC21 feed based on feedback from our users. The same information (the same MARC fields and subfields) is also provided in our MARCXML feed which will remain active. The MARCXML feed complies to all technical standards and this format can be easily converted to other MARC formats in MARCEdit.
23 May, 2021. OPERAS, the European Research Infrastructure for the development of open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities, is holding its first national node event in the Netherlands (OPERAS-NL) on 22nd June from 10:00 - 12:00 (CEST).
20 May, 2021. The DOAB Foundation and OAPEN Foundation are pleased to announce a new partnership with LYRASIS. Through this partnership, DOAB, OAPEN and LYRASIS will establish a pathway for U.S. institutions to support the continuing development of open infrastructure services for open access (OA) books.
23 March, 2021. Join us for this workshop on 6 different approaches to OA book publishing from various European publishers.
Each presenter will share their OA book publishing experiences and insights with an emphasis on the areas of: Revenue, Costs, Legal Issues & Workflows.
01 January, 2021. Thanks to new pledges of support from Canada, France and the Netherlands we surpassed the halfway point of our SCOSS campaign, currently at 60% of our financial target.
16 December, 2020. Sometimes, new things come in pairs. In our case, the pivot from our legacy system to the DSpace environment coincided with an update of our usage reporting.
25 November, 2020. OAPEN Foundation is delighted to announce that Niels Stern has been appointed as Director of OAPEN Foundation.
Niels will take over from Eelco Ferwerda on the 1st of January, as Eelco will retire at the end of this year.
01 October, 2020. October 2010 marked the launch and official start of the OAPEN platform, take a look at some of our major milestones over the last 10 years via the infographic in this article.
30 September, 2020. A freely available toolkit: helping academic book authors to better understand open access book publishing.