OAPEN Library

• OpenAIRE
• COUNTER
• ONIX
• MARC
• OAI-PMH
• Dublin Core

• Webscraping (for instance Google Scholar, Unpaywall, Unglue.it)
• Harvesting (for instance BASE, CORE, OpenAIRE)
• API (for instance OpenBCP, Open Syllabus)
• Metadata feeds (for instance EBSCO, Exlibris/Clarivate, OCLC)

Annual meeting for supporting libraries, sharing our technical roadmap to invite libraries to provide suggestions for new development and to give general feedback.

• Managing a library working group.
• Coordinating a funder forum.
• Serving as Executive Assembly member of OPERAS
• Serving on the Board of Stewards for the Open Book Collective
• Serving the Think.Check.Submit Committee
• Serving on a number of advisory boards and other committees
• Writing articles and blogs and giving 50+ presentations at conferences and webinars annually - see engagement in our annual stakeholder report

The OAPEN Library is an initiative of the OAPEN Foundation. The Foundation is governed by a Supervisory Board and an Advisory Board.

The OAPEN Library was developed as a 30-month targeted project co-funded by the EU in its eContentplus-program (2008-2010). The goal of the project was to build a platform for peer-reviewed open access academic books and to explore publication and business models for open book publishing. After the close of the project, OAPEN continued its activities as a not-for-profit and independent foundation (a Stichting - cannot be sold or acquired by law).

Read the story of OAPEN here: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.3303

As an infrastructure for open research published as peer-reviewed books (monographs, edited collections etc.) OAPEN primary role is to ensure smooth distribution of books from publishers to readers, most often through academic libraries. Maintaining and developing this core part of the infrastructure to accommodate the needs of publishers and libraries is an increasingly more challenging task as more and more books are sent to the OAPEN Library and the demands among institutions increase. Furthermore, as research funders develop OA book policies OAPEN's service provision to the funders also needs developing.

In short, funding will help the maintenance of existing and the development of new open services as required by libraries and funders, enabling seamless access to thousands of scholarly books for millions of readers worldwide. Additionally, funding will enable OAPEN to pursue equity for publishers worldwide by providing global distribution services to any publisher who fullfills the basic requirements of peer review and open access. OAPEN is proactively reaching out to publishers in all regions of the world to make them aware of these possibilities.