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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Press release - October 13, 2010</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><a name="12baa56623c4e67a_OLE_LINK1"></a><a name="12baa56623c4e67a_OLE_LINK2"></a><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Successful launch of the OAPEN Library at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2010</span></b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">On October 6, the OAPEN Library (<a href="http://www.oapen.org/" target="_blank">http://www.oapen.org</a>) 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.</font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The goals of the OAPEN Library are:</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">to promote Open Access book publishing by
building a branded collection of OA peer-reviewed titles;</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">to increase the visibility and retrievability of
high-quality European research;</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">to set quality standards for OA books, based on
transparent procedures for peer review and recommendations for OA licences.</font></li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; ">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 <i><span style="font-style:italic">Erasmus, Opera Omnia</span></i> series into the OAPEN
Library. The official launch was executed by Henk Wals, by starting this
animation: <a href="http://youtu.be/GnYhialJ648" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/GnYhialJ648</a>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">More information on OAPEN and the Library is available for
you at <a href="http://www.oapen.org/" target="_blank">www.oapen.org</a> (OAPEN Library) or <a href="http://www.oapen.org/project" target="_blank">http://www.oapen.org/project</a>
(background information).</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">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.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">For more information, contact Eelco
Ferwerda (Coordinator of OAPEN, Amsterdam
University Press) tel.
0031 (0)20 420 0050, email <a href="mailto:e.ferwerda@aup.nl" target="_blank">e.ferwerda@aup.nl</a></font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; ">OAPEN is a Targeted Project co-funded by the EC
within its eContentplus Programme.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">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. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Learn more about OAPEN by visiting the website: <a href="http://www.oapen.org/" title="blocked::http://www.oapen.org/
http://www.oapen.org/" target="_blank">www.oapen.org</a></font></p>
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