Open Access eBooks: Part One, the OAPEN | No Shelf Required

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-10-28

Summary:

"OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The OAPEN Library aims to improve the visibility and usability of high quality academic research by aggregating peer reviewed Open Access publications from across Europe. Titles are available in English, German, French, Italian, Latin, and other languages.  The peer reviewed titles are submitted by a variety of publishers, including Taylor & Francis, Palgrave, Brill, Berg and a long list of university presses, including Hong Kong, Manchester, Firenze, Amsterdam, and Universitätsverlag Göttingen.   According to the OAPEN September newsletter, they had over 400,000 downloads in the past 12 months. All books in the OAPEN Library can be found through WorldCat – (OCLC platform, WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local). Libraries can also add the titles to their catalog for additional discovery. The OAPEN enables libraries and aggregators to use the metadata of all available titles in the OAPEN Library. Metadata is (or will be soon) available in the formats mentioned below. OAPEN does request that users inform them upon use of the metadata.  (If you really like metadata, you’ll find 2 titles in the OAPEN collection about the topic.)"

Link:

http://www.libraries.wright.edu/noshelfrequired/2012/10/22/open-access-ebooks-part-one-the-oapen/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.comment oa.ssh oa.advocacy oa.libraries oa.metadata oa.usage oa.formats oa.books oa.sustainability oa.librarians oa.oapen oa.oa_week oa.economics_of

Date tagged:

10/28/2012, 16:24

Date published:

10/28/2012, 12:24