Pilotprojekt OAPEN-CH: Erste Open-Access-Bücher publiziert und zweite Ausschreibung | Blog für Forschung und Entwicklung

[From Google's English] "In the pilot project OAPEN-CH, the SNSF supports 27 Open Access books. On 15 February 2016, the second tender lanciert.Im February 2015, the SNSF launched the first of two planned tenders of the pilot project OAPEN-CH. In this study, the SNF gathers together with scientific publishers experiences for publication process freely accessible on the Internet of monographs (Open Access) and data on usage, sales and production costs of digital and printed books. In the center of the pilot project is a joint learning process with publishers and other involved in the open-access publication process Akteuren.An the first OAPEN-tendering ten scientific publishers from Switzerland and from Germany have been involved. The SNSF supports the publication of 54 books published under the first pilot round. Of these 27 books Open Access will be published and be on the website of the publishers, in OAPEN Library and in an institutional repository accessible. In the longer term should also be available on the platform e-Helveticat the Swiss National Library, the pilot books. All pilot publications are also available in a printed version ..."