A new collaboration between OAPEN and OpenEdition

OAPEN and OpenEdition, two European projects dedicated to Open Access publishing in the humanities and social sciences, are pleased to announce their collaboration to strengthen Open Access monograph publishing.

Services for Open Access books

OpenEdition is a publishing platform developing a sustainable model for Open Access publishing: OpenEdition Freemium. OAPEN offers deposit and discovery services to Open Access monographs, through the OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). OAPEN and OpenEdition now work together to provide their members with the benefits of each other’s services.

Joint stand at Frankfurt Book Fair

Meet us at the Frankfurt Book Fair, october 8-12 2013. OpenEdition and OAPEN share the stand F91 in Hall 4.2 S.

About OAPEN

OAPEN Foundation is dedicated to Open Access for peer reviewed books. OAPEN Library (www.oapen.org) is a deposit service for the full text dissemination of Open Access books and provides services to publishers and libraries in terms of quality control, deposit and discovery. In addition, OAPEN manages the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB, www.doabooks.org), a discovery service for OA books modelled after the DOAJ.

About OpenEdition

OpenEdition (www.openedition.org) serves the humanities and social sciences research communities through four publication and information platforms: OpenEdition Books (books series), Revues.org (scientific journals), Hypotheses (research blogs), Calenda (academic announcements). Since 2011, OpenEdition is complemented by a Freemium programme addressing libraries’ specific needs in a variety of formats and services. OpenEdition is developed by the Centre for Open Electronic Publishing (CLEO), a non-profit public initiative promoting Open Access academic publishing, with the support of the main French research institutions: the Bibliothèque scientifique numérique (BSN), the Centre National de la Recherche scientifique (CNRS), Aix-Marseille University (AMU), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Avignon University. In 2012, OpenEdition received the Label Equipex future investment award.