This community collection gathers papers, reports, videos, and other outputs related to Open Access books created by or involving staff of the OAPEN Foundation.
The OAPEN Foundation is a not-for-profit ('Stichting') organisation based in the Netherlands, with its registered office at the National Library in The Hague. OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. We work with publishers to build a quality-controlled collection of open access books and provide services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.
OAPEN operates three platforms:
OAPEN is also an active voice in the wider Open Access books community