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The Open Access Publishing in European Networks Foundation (OAPEN Foundation) is a non-profit organisation that supports open access publishing of peer-reviewed scholarly books,[1] particularly in the humanities and social sciences,[2] by providing infrastructure[3] for hosting, dissemination, and the long-term preservation of open access monographs and edited collections.[4][5] It is a founding member of the European research infrastructure OPERAS, serving as the national node for the Netherlands.[6][7] It is based in the National Library at The Hague, Netherlands. Its current director is Niels Stern.

Establishment

OAPEN began as a co-funded European Union project, under the EU’s eContentplus programme, which aimed to improve the access and use of digital content across Europe.[8] The original OAPEN project, which ran from 2008 to 2011, aimed to explore and promote sustainable models for open access monograph publishing in Europe.[9] After the project’s conclusion, the OAPEN Foundation was created as an independent, non-profit organisation under Dutch law, to continue this work and to provide a permanent infrastructure for OA books[10]

Projects

  • The OAPEN Library: A global digital library for hosting and disseminating scholarly OA books, free to use, no registration required.
  • Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB): A free global discovery service developed in partnership with OpenEdition to index peer-reviewed OA books
  • OAPEN Open Access (OA) Books Toolkit: A free resource intended to help authors to better understand open access book publishing and to increase trust in open access books.

Partnerships

OAPEN has a number of partnerships in the fields of research and scholarly communications across Europe, including:

References

  1. ^ “About us | OAPEN”. oapen.org. Retrieved 2026-03-02.
  2. ^ Davis, Phil (2010-10-27). “OAPEN – Open Access Book Experiment in Humanities, Social Sciences”. The Scholarly Kitchen. Retrieved 2026-03-02.
  3. ^ “Infra Finder Spotlight: OAPEN and DOAB”. Invest in Open Infrastructure. 2024-05-15. Retrieved 2026-03-02.
  4. ^ “The Infrastructure for Open-Access Monographs: An Unsettled Landscape | NISO website”. www.niso.org. Retrieved 2026-03-02.
  5. ^ “Strengthening the OAPEN infrastructure in support of European Union Open Access policy | OAPEN-EU | Project | Fact Sheet | HORIZON”. CORDIS | European Commission. Retrieved 2026-03-02.
  6. ^ “OPERAS National Nodes – OPERAS”. operas-eu.org. 2023-06-05. Retrieved 2026-03-02.
  7. ^ “Launch of OPERAS-NL: collaboration between OAPEN and KNAW Humanities Cluster (HuC) | OAPEN”. www.oapen.org. Retrieved 2026-03-02.
  8. ^ eur-lex.europa.eu https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/stimulating-the-production-of-european-digital-content-the-econtent-programme-2001-04.html. Retrieved 2026-03-02. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ^ “OAPEN: Open Access for peer reviewed academic books”. open-access.network. 2008-10-14. Retrieved 2026-03-02.
  10. ^ Ferwerda, Eelco; Snijder, Ronald; Stern, Niels (2023-05-09). “Open Access to Books – the Perspective of a Non-profit Infrastructure Provider”. The Journal of Electronic Publishing. 26 (1). doi:10.3998/jep.3303. ISSN 1080-2711.
  11. ^ “Open Science Infrastructures”. Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Retrieved 2026-03-02.
  12. ^ “Knowledge Unlatched | OAPEN”. www.oapen.org. Retrieved 2026-03-02.
  13. ^ “OAPEN-CH pilot project: taking stock after the second call”. Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) (in German). Retrieved 2026-03-02.
  14. ^ “NWO – The Dutch Research Council | OAPEN”. oapen.org. Retrieved 2026-03-02.
  15. ^ “Collections and Collectives”. openbookcollective.org. Retrieved 2026-03-02.
  16. ^ “DFG Launches Cooperation with the OAPEN Foundation”. www.dfg.de. Retrieved 2026-03-02.
  17. ^ “Update on UKRI’s journey to open access”. 2024-09-16. Retrieved 2026-03-02.
  18. ^ “Strengthening open infrastructures for scholarly books | OpenScience at CERN”. openscience.cern. Retrieved 2026-03-02.