[BOAI] OAPEN Newsletter September 2010

[Iryna Kuchma]

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OAPEN Newsletter - September 2010

Launch of the OAPEN Library at the Frankfurt Book Fair

We are pleased to announce that OAPEN, the European project dedicated
to Open Access publishing of academic books, will officially launch
the OAPEN Library at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

The ceremony will take place on Wednesday, October 6, 12 AM in Hall
4.2 - C 1433 (Education Hot Spot stage) of the Frankfurt Book Fair.

The launching ceremony of the OAPEN Library will mark the start of the
first dedicated collection of freely available academic books in the
Humanities and Social Sciences from across Europe. Through the OAPEN
Library we aim to build a branded collection of Open Access
peer-reviewed books and to increase the visibility and retrievability
of high-quality European research. We also aim to promote Open Access
book publishing by developing common standards, based on transparent
procedures for peer review and recommendations for OA licences.

It is of course no coincidence that we have chosen the Frankfurt Book
Fair, the oldest and largest book fair in the world and vitally
important to the international book trade, to launch the OAPEN Library
and introduce a new business model for academic books, based on Open
Access to academic information. We believe the OAPEN Library will
contribute to a new and vibrant future of the academic monograph in
the digital age.

We hope to welcome you at the ceremony. If you wish to attend, please
let us know through oapen at aup.nl.

Visit us at the Frankfurt Book Fair

OAPEN will have its own stand at the Fair, in order to talk to
interested publishers. In the coming months, we will approach academic
publishers from across Europe to take part in the OAPEN Library. If
you wish to learn more about OAPEN at the fair, please make an
appointment with project coordinator Eelco Ferwerda,
e.ferwerda at aup.nl. Our stand is in Hall 4.2, C412.

For more information please contact  Eelco Ferwerda (Amsterdam
University Press) e.ferwerda at aup.nl or learn more about OAPEN by
visiting the website: www.oapen.org

OAPEN is funded under the eContentplus programme,
a multi-annual Community programme to make digital content in Europe
more accessible, usable and exploitable.