From: Simon Bell <simon.bell@manchester.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:51:03 +0100
Subject: [IFLA-L] OAPEN Press Release - Successful launch of the
OAPEN Library at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2010
To: "ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr" <ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr>
Press release - October 13, 2010
Successful launch of the OAPEN Library at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2010
On October 6, the OAPEN Library (http://www.oapen.org
<http://www.oapen.org/> ) was successfully launched at the Frankfurt
Book Fair. This marks the start of the first dedicated collection of
freely available academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences
from across Europe.
The goals of the OAPEN Library are:
- to promote Open Access book publishing by building a branded
collection of OA peer-reviewed titles;
- to increase the visibility and retrievability of high-quality
European research;
- to set quality standards for OA books, based on transparent
procedures for peer review and recommendations for OA licences.
Several speakers introduced the OAPEN Library to an interested
audience, starting with Sven Fund (CEO of De Gruyter) who discussed
"Open Access for books and how to accomplish it". Arnoud de Kemp
(Publisher, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft AKA and organiser of the
yearly APE conference - Academic Publishing in Europe) spoke on the
subject of "Open Access as part of Digital Publishing" and Henk Wals
(director of the Huygens Institute - KNAW) revealed in his talk "Open
Access in a research institution" the inclusion of the first titles of
the prestigious Erasmus, Opera Omnia series into the OAPEN Library.
The official launch was executed by Henk Wals, by starting this
animation: http://youtu.be/GnYhialJ648.
More information on OAPEN and the Library is available for you at
www.oapen.org <http://www.oapen.org/> (OAPEN Library) or
http://www.oapen.org/project (background information).
The official launch of the OAPEN Library also serves as an invitation
to interested publishers to benefit through the integration of their
content in the library or to become members of our Partner network and
profit from the growing visibility of OAPEN and the experiences of
participating publishers.
For more information, contact Eelco Ferwerda (Coordinator of OAPEN,
Amsterdam University Press) tel. 0031 (0)20 420 0050, email
e.ferwerda@aup.nl
<http://twitter.com/OAPENbooks>
<http://project.oapen.org/feed.rss>
OAPEN is a Targeted Project co-funded by the EC within its
eContentplus Programme.
OAPEN aims to develop and implement an Open Access publication model
for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). Our
goal is to achieve a sustainable European approach to improve the
quantity, visibility and usability of high quality academic research
and foster the creation of new content by developing future-oriented
publishing solutions, including an Open Access Library for peer
reviewed books in HSS. The 30-months project started in September
2008.
Learn more about OAPEN by visiting the website: www.oapen.org
<http://www.oapen.org/>
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Regards
Fatima Darries
E-LIS SA Editor
www.highedlibrarian.blogspot.com
www.openaccesslibrary.pbwiki.com
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