[BOAI] OAPEN Newsletter August 2011

Peter Suber peter.suber at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 14:29:05 BST 2011 

[Forwarding from OAPEN.  --Peter Suber.]

Newsletter August 2011

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Contents**** Read this issue online: http://project.oapen.org/index.php/news

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**1.       **OAPEN established as Foundation****

**2.       **First Open Access books funded through pilots in **UK** and the
****Netherlands********

**3.       **Connecting the OAPEN Library to your library/ catalogue****

**4.       **Become part of the OAPEN collection with your content****

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1. OAPEN established as Foundation ****

It is our pleasure to announce that OAPEN is now officially established as a
Foundation. The OAPEN foundation will continue its activities to promote and
facilitate Open Access book publishing and to aggregate its Open Access
collection of peer reviewed books in the OAPEN Library. ****

The OAPEN foundation is a continuation of the EU co-funded project ‘Open
Access Publishing in European Networks’, which was concluded earlier this
year with the first OAPEN conference in ****Berlin****. The foundation is
established under Dutch law and hosted by the National Library in ****The
Hague****. ****

These are the new contact details:****

OAPEN Foundation****

Eelco Ferwerda, director****

Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5, ****

2595 BE ****The Hague**, **Netherlands********

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E-mail:                    e.ferwerda at oapen.org or info at oapen.org****

Postal address:     OAPEN Foundation, ********PO Box**** 90407****, 2509 LK
The Hague, Netherlands****

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2. First Open Access books funded by pilots in **UK** and the ****
Netherlands********

OAPEN is involved in two pilot projects to publish Open Access books and
investigate the effects of OA publishing on usage and sales. OAPEN-UK is
managed by JISC Collections and co-funded by the Atrs and Humanities
Research Council (AHRC) in the ****UK****. OAPEN-NL (www.oapen.nl) is
managed by OAPEN in collaboration with SURF Foundation and the Netherlands
Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and co-funded by NWO.  ****

In both these pilots, the first books have now been published in Open Access
and made available through the OAPEN Library: ****

**-        **Brill (6
publications<http://oapen.org/search?expand=publisher;f1-publisher=Brill>)
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**-        ******Amsterdam**** University Press (2 publications):
http://tinyurl.com/3hwtatb and http://tinyurl.com/3djasqw****

**-        **Berg publishers (6
publications<http://oapen.org/search?sort=reverse-year&expand=publisher&f1-publisher=Berg+Publishers>
)****

**-        ****Liverpool** University Press (4
publications<http://oapen.org/search?sort=reverse-year&expand=publisher&f1-publisher=Liverpool+University+Press>
)****

**-        **Taylor & Francis (8
publications<http://oapen.org/search?sort=reverse-year&expand=publisher&f1-publisher=Taylor+%26+Francis>
)****

An important goal of OAPEN is to help establish funding opportunities for OA
books and OAPEN remains interested to set up similar pilots for Open Access
books in other areas. If you’re a publisher or funding organization and
interested to get involved, please get in touch with Eelco Ferwerda.****

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3. Connecting the OAPEN Library to your library/ catalogue****

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While the interface of the OAPEN Library contains several functions that go
beyond keyword search – enabling serendipity through browsing and searching;
multi lingual search and export to both social media and reference managers
– the contents of the OAPEN Library can be incorporated into your library or
data aggregation feed. ****

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[image: OAPEN Library - connect to library]****

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Following our previous newsletter in which we described several available
data feeds we received a request for an additional format.  We have now
developed a data feed optimised for Excel. Each data feed contains the
complete metadata of all books in the library, but in a different technical
format. The following data feeds are available:****

**-        **ONIX XML – a format widely used in the publishing world;****

**-        **CSV – a text format that is usable in most systems; ****

**-        **MARC XML – this format is optimized for library catalogues;****

**-        **XML - optimised for import in Excel.****

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You can find the feeds here: http://www.oapen.org/xtf/metadataexports ****

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Practical examples of such integrations:****

**-        **Union catalogue of the
GVK-GBV<http://gso.gbv.de/DB=2.1/SET=1/TTL=1/COOKIE=U958024,K8001LOGIN,D2.1,Ef2ec4b56-fdb,I40,B0007%252F0333%2B,SY,A%255C9008%2BJ,,1,,U,,4,,7,,M,H7-23,,30,,50,,60-62,,73,,76-77,,80-90,NSUB%2BGOETTINGEN,R134.76.162.165,FN/LIBID=0007%252F0333%2B/LNG=EN/SID=f2ec4b56-fdb/XSLBASE=http%253A%252F%252Fk1www.gbv.de%253A80%252Fworldcat_gui/XSLFILE=%25253Fid%25253D%24c%252526db%25253D%24d/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=1016&SRT=YOP&TRM=oapen>,
one the largest common library network in ****Germany********

**-        **Universiteitsbibliotheek
Gent<http://search.ugent.be/meercat/x/all-view?q=de+hand+van+huizinga&start=0&filter=&sort=&rec=rug01:001486239>
****

**-        **James Hardiman
Library<http://vmserver39.nuigalway.ie/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=search&fromLogin=true&ct=display&vid=GAL_VU1&indx=1&dum=true&doc=GAL01000604602&vl(12428508UI1)=all_items&vl(freeText0)=de%20hand%20van%20huizinga%20otterspeer&y=33&x=40&vl(4398403UI0)=any&fromLogin=true>of
the
**National** **University** of ****Ireland**** ****

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Please get in touch with us if you want to enrich your content with the
OAPEN collection. The use of the content for this purpose is free of charge.
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4. Become part of the OAPEN Library with your Open Access books****

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Now that OAPEN is established as a foundation, we are able to renew our
relationships with content providers. Scholarly publishers interested in
Open Access and with a focus on Humanities and Social Sciences, research
institutes with publishing programmes or scholars in charge of a series are
invited to join our network and contribute OA publications to the OAPEN
Library. By now 23 publishers and research institutes cooperate with us and
use OAPEN as means to improve discoverability and dissemination of their
Open Access content on a world-wide scale.****

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If you’re interested to get involved please contact Eelco Ferwerda, director
of OAPEN (e.ferwerda at oapen.org). For technical questions please contact
Ronald Snijder (r.snijder at aup.nl).****

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[image: follow_us-c] <http://www.twitter.com/OAPEN>****

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OAPEN aims to promote Open Access book publishing by developing Open Access
publications models for academic books, offering services to academic
publishers and building a collection of Open Access books through the OAPEN
Library.  OAPEN started as a Targeted Project co-funded by the EC within its
*e*Contentplus Programme.****

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Learn more about OAPEN by visiting our website: www.oapen.org****

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