Oapen Foundation

The OAPEN Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation based in the Netherlands dedicated to open access, peer-reviewed books. OAPEN’s goals are: To build a branded collection of open access peer-reviewed titles. To increase the visibility and retrievability of high-quality publications. To promote open access book publishing. OAPEN operates three platforms: The OAPEN Library - a central repository for hosting and disseminating OA books. The OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit - a toolkit on OA book publishing for authors. The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)- a discovery service indexing OA books, in partnership with OpenEdition. OAPEN Foundation was established by the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the University of Leiden (UL), the University library of Utrecht University (UU), the Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW), the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) and Amsterdam University Press (AUP). Prior to that, OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) was developed as a 30-month targeted project co-funded by the EU in its eContentplus-program (2008-2010). After the close of the project, OAPEN continued its activities as a foundation.