[BOAI] OAPEN Press Release - Successful launch of the OAPEN Library at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2010

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from OAPEN.  --Peter Suber.]





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) 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 (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 at aup.nl*

* *

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
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