<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><font size="2">[Forwarding from OAPEN. --Peter Suber.]<br><br></font></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="DE" link="blue" vlink="#606420"><div>
<h1 align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" size="2">Newsletter August 2011</font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: small; "> </span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">==========<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><h1><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" size="2">Contents<u></u><u></u></font></span></h1>
<h1><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal; ">Read this issue online: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://project.oapen.org/index.php/news" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal; ">http://project.oapen.org/index.php/news</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal; "> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal; "><br>
<br></span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></font></h1><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u><span lang="EN-US"><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">OAPEN established as Foundation<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u><span lang="EN-US"><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">First Open Access books funded through pilots in <u></u>UK<u></u> and the <u></u><u></u>Netherlands<u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u><span lang="EN-US"><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Connecting the OAPEN Library to your library/ catalogue<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u><span lang="EN-US"><span>4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Become part of the OAPEN collection with your content<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">==========<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><h1><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" size="2">1. OAPEN established as Foundation <u></u><u></u></font></span></h1>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">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. <u></u><u></u></font></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">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 <u></u><u></u>Berlin<u></u><u></u>. The foundation is established under Dutch law and hosted by the National Library in <u></u><u></u>The Hague<u></u><u></u>. <u></u><u></u></font></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">These are the new contact details:<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">OAPEN Foundation<u></u><u></u></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Eelco Ferwerda, director<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5, <u></u><u></u></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">2595 BE <u></u><u></u>The Hague<u></u>, <u></u>Netherlands<u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:e.ferwerda@oapen.org" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">e.ferwerda@oapen.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> or </span><a href="mailto:info@oapen.org" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">info@oapen.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Postal address: OAPEN Foundation, <u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u>PO Box<u></u><u></u> 90407<u></u><u></u>, 2509 LK The Hague, Netherlands<u></u><u></u></font></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">=========<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><h1><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" size="2">2. First Open Access books funded by pilots in <u></u>UK<u></u> and the <u></u><u></u>Netherlands<u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></font></span></h1>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">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 <u></u><u></u>UK<u></u><u></u>. OAPEN-NL (</span><a href="http://www.oapen.nl" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">www.oapen.nl</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">) is managed by OAPEN in collaboration with SURF Foundation and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and co-funded by NWO. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">In both these pilots, the first books have now been published in Open Access and made available through the OAPEN Library: <u></u><u></u></font></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u><span lang="EN-GB"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB">Brill (</span><a href="http://oapen.org/search?expand=publisher;f1-publisher=Brill" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">6 publications</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">) <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u><span lang="EN-GB"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><u></u><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Amsterdam</span><u></u><u></u><span lang="EN-US"> University Press (2 publications): </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/3hwtatb" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://tinyurl.com/3hwtatb</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> and </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/3djasqw" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://tinyurl.com/3djasqw</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u><span lang="EN-GB"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Berg publishers (</span><a href="http://oapen.org/search?sort=reverse-year&expand=publisher&f1-publisher=Berg+Publishers" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">6 publications</span></a><span lang="EN-US">)</span><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u><span lang="EN-GB"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Liverpool</span><u></u><span lang="EN-US"> University Press (</span><a href="http://oapen.org/search?sort=reverse-year&expand=publisher&f1-publisher=Liverpool+University+Press" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">4 publications</span></a><span lang="EN-US">)</span><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u><span lang="EN-GB"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Taylor & Francis (</span><a href="http://oapen.org/search?sort=reverse-year&expand=publisher&f1-publisher=Taylor+%26+Francis" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">8 publications</span></a><span lang="EN-US">)</span><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">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</span><span lang="EN-GB">.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">==========<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><h1><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" size="2">3. Connecting the OAPEN Library to your library/ catalogue<u></u><u></u></font></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">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. <u></u><u></u></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><img border="0" width="571" height="118" alt="OAPEN Library - connect to library"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">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:<u></u><u></u></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u><span lang="EN-GB"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB">ONIX XML – a format widely used in the publishing world;<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u><span lang="EN-GB"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB">CSV – a text format that is usable in most systems; <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u><span lang="EN-GB"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB">MARC XML – this format is optimized for library catalogues;<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u><span lang="EN-GB"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB">XML - optimised for import in Excel.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">You can find the feeds here: </span><a href="http://www.oapen.org/xtf/metadataexports" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">http://www.oapen.org/xtf/metadataexports</span></a> <span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Practical examples of such integrations:<u></u><u></u></font></span></p>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u><span lang="EN-GB"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><a href="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" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">Union catalogue of the GVK-GBV</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">, one the largest common library network in <u></u><u></u>Germany<u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u><span lang="NL"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><a href="http://search.ugent.be/meercat/x/all-view?q=de+hand+van+huizinga&start=0&filter=&sort=&rec=rug01:001486239" target="_blank"><span lang="NL">Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent</span></a> <span lang="NL"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u><span lang="EN-GB"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><a href="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" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">James Hardiman Library</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> of the <u></u>National<u></u> <u></u>University<u></u> of <u></u><u></u>Ireland<u></u><u></u> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">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.<u></u><u></u></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">==========<u></u><u></u></font></span></p>
<h1><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="EN-US">4.</span><span lang="EN-US"> Become part of the OAPEN Library with your Open Access books<u></u><u></u></span></font></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">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.<u></u><u></u></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">If you’re interested to get involved please contact Eelco Ferwerda, director of OAPEN (</span><a href="mailto:e.ferwerda@oapen.org" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">e.ferwerda@oapen.org</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">). For technical questions please contact Ronald Snijder (</span><a href="mailto:r.snijder@aup.nl" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">r.snijder@aup.nl</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">).<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">==========</span><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><a href="http://www.twitter.com/OAPEN" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy; text-decoration: none; "><img border="0" width="120" height="20" alt="follow_us-c"></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: navy; "><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: navy; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">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 <i>e</i>Contentplus Programme.<u></u><u></u></font></span></p>
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