1. Visit OAPEN at the Frankfurt Bookfair

OAPEN will have its own stand at the Fair, in order to talk to interested publishers and aggregators. If you wish to learn more about OAPEN at the fair, please make an appointment with Eelco Ferwerda, director of the OAPEN foundation ( JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING ). You will find us in Hall 4.2, J440.

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2. OAPEN partners with OCLC, Ex Libris and Serials Solutions

We are pleased to announce that the OAPEN Library is now included in the library discovery services of three leading providers for automated library solutions: WorldCat by OCLC, Primo Central Index by Ex Libris and Summon by Serials Solutions. Through these partnerships OAPEN aims to ensure worldwide visibility and discoverability of the collection of Open Access books within the OAPEN Library.

WorldCat itemizes the collections of over 71,000 libraries in 112 countries. It contains more than 150 billion different records.  Inclusion in the WorldCat brings worldwide visibility for content, authors and publishers and ensures efficient discoverability of scientific information at the workplace of the researcher. WorldCat is built and maintained by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and is free of use for libraries.

The Primo Central index is an aggregation of hundreds of millions of scholarly e-resources of global and regional importance. These include journal articles, e-books, newspapers, reviews, legal documents and other items of scholarly interest that are harvested from primary and secondary publishers and aggregators, and from open-access repositories. The Primo Central Index – which now includes the OAPEN Library - is an integral part of the Primo discovery and delivery solution and is also available through the Ex Libris MetaLib ™ metasearch solution.

Serials Solutions offers Summon as discovery solution for libraries. The content types include library catalogue records, e-journal articles, databases, newspaper articles, e-books, dissertations, institutional repositories, conference proceedings, grey literature, cited references, reports, digital library and more. A special feature of Summon is the expansion of libraries' collections with valuable, freely available repository content. Users can discover content from more than 39 open access archives and 257 institutional repositories from 73 different institutions representing more than 40 million records that have been ingested into the Summon service, most with full-text indexing.

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3. OAPEN partners with OASPA - discount for our members

We are pleased to announce that OAPEN is a partner of OASPA, the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association. OASPA has included book publishers in its mission statement ‘to support and represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal and book publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines’.

OAPEN members will receive a special discount of 25% on their OASPA-membership fee when joining OASPA. In addition, OAPEN members benefit from a simple application procedure and special rates for the yearly COASP, the Conference for Open Access Scholarly Publishers.

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4. Become part of the OAPEN Library with your Open Access books

Now that OAPEN is established as a foundation, we are able to renew our relationships with content providers. Scholarly publishers interested in Open Access and with a focus on Humanities and Social Sciences, research institutes with publishing programmes or scholars in charge of a series are invited to join our network and contribute OA publications to the OAPEN Library. By now 23 publishers and research institutes cooperate with us and use OAPEN as means to improve discoverability and dissemination of their Open Access content on a world-wide scale.

If you’re interested to get involved please contact Eelco Ferwerda, director of OAPEN ( JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING ). For technical questions please contact Ronald Snijder ( JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING ).

Newsletter August 2011

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Contents

1. OAPEN established as Foundation
2. First Open Access books funded through pilots in UK and the Netherlands
3. Connecting the OAPEN Library to your library/catalogue
4. Become part of the OAPEN collection with your content


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1. OAPEN established as Foundation

It is our pleasure to announce that OAPEN is now officially established as a Foundation. The OAPEN foundation will continue its activities to promote and facilitate Open Access book publishing and to aggregate its Open Access collection of peer reviewed books in the OAPEN Library.
The OAPEN foundation is a continuation of the EU co-funded project ‘Open Access Publishing in European Networks’, which was concluded earlier this year with the first OAPEN conference in Berlin. The foundation is established under Dutch law and hosted by the National Library in The Hague.
These are the new contact details:
OAPEN Foundation
Eelco Ferwerda, director
Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5,
2595 BE The Hague, Netherlands

E-mail:         JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING or JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING
Postal address:     OAPEN Foundation, PO Box 90407, 2509 LK The Hague, Netherlands

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2. First Open Access books funded by pilots in UK and the Netherlands

OAPEN is involved in two pilot projects to publish Open Access books and investigate the effects of OA publishing on usage and sales. OAPEN-UK is managed by JISC Collections and co-funded by the Atrs and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the UK. OAPEN-NL (www.oapen.nl) is managed by OAPEN in collaboration with SURF Foundation and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and co-funded by NWO. 
In both these pilots, the first books have now been published in Open Access and made available through the OAPEN Library:
* Brill (6 publications)
* Amsterdam University Press (2 publications): http://tinyurl.com/3hwtatb and http://tinyurl.com/3djasqw
* Berg publishers (6 publications)
* Liverpool University Press (4 publications)
* Taylor & Francis (8 publications)
An important goal of OAPEN is to help establish funding opportunities for OA books and OAPEN remains interested to set up similar pilots for Open Access books in other areas. If you’re a publisher or funding organization and interested to get involved, please get in touch with Eelco Ferwerda.

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3. Connecting the OAPEN Library to your library/ catalogue

While the interface of the OAPEN Library contains several functions that go beyond keyword search – enabling serendipity through browsing and searching; multi lingual search and export to both social media and reference managers – the contents of the OAPEN Library can be incorporated into your library or data aggregation feed.

Following our previous newsletter in which we described several available data feeds we received a request for an additional format.  We have now developed a data feed optimised for Excel. Each data feed contains the complete metadata of all books in the library, but in a different technical format. The following data feeds are available:
* ONIX XML – a format widely used in the publishing world;
* CSV – a text format that is usable in most systems;
* MARC XML – this format is optimized for library catalogues;
* XML - optimised for import in Excel.

You can find the feeds here: http://www.oapen.org/xtf/metadataexports

Practical examples of such integrations:
* Union catalogue of the GVK-GBV, one the largest common library network in Germany
* Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent
* James Hardiman Library of the National University of Ireland

Please get in touch with us if you want to enrich your content with the OAPEN collection. The use of the content for this purpose is free of charge.

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4. Become part of the OAPEN Library with your Open Access books

Now that OAPEN is established as a foundation, we are able to renew our relationships with content providers. Scholarly publishers interested in Open Access and with a focus on Humanities and Social Sciences, research institutes with publishing programmes or scholars in charge of a series are invited to join our network and contribute OA publications to the OAPEN Library. By now 23 publishers and research institutes cooperate with us and use OAPEN as means to improve discoverability and dissemination of their Open Access content on a world-wide scale.

If you’re interested to get involved please contact Eelco Ferwerda, director of OAPEN ( JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING ). For technical questions please contact Ronald Snijder ( JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING ).