Open Access Publishing in European Networks Foundation

The Open Access Publishing in European Networks Foundation (OAPEN) is a non-profit organisation that supports open-access publishing of peer-reviewed scholarly books,^[1] particularly in the humanities and social sciences.^[2] The foundation provides infrastructure^[3] for hosting, dissemination, and the long-term preservation of open-access monographs and edited collections.^[4][5] It is a founding member of the European research infrastructure OPERAS, serving as the national node for the Netherlands.^[6][7] It is based in the National Library at The Hague, Netherlands. Its current director is Niels Stern.

OAPEN began as a co-funded European Union project, under the EU's eContentplus programme, which aimed to improve the access and use of digital content across Europe.^[8] The original OAPEN project, which ran from 2008 to 2011, aimed to explore and promote sustainable models for open access monograph publishing in Europe.^[9] After the project's conclusion, the OAPEN Foundation was created as an independent, non-profit organisation under Dutch law, to continue this work and to provide a permanent infrastructure for OA books^[10]

• The OAPEN Library: A global digital library for hosting and disseminating scholarly OA books, free to use, no registration required.
• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB): A free global discovery service developed in partnership with OpenEdition to index peer-reviewed OA books
• OAPEN Open Access (OA) Books Toolkit: A free resource intended to help authors to better understand open access book publishing and to increase trust in open access books.

OAPEN has a number of partnerships in the fields of research and scholarly communications across Europe, including:

• Austrian Science Fund^[11]
• Knowledge Unlatched^[12]
• Swiss National Science Foundation^[13]
• Dutch Research Council^[14]
• Open Book Collective^[15]
• German Research Foundation^[16]
• Investigación e Innovación del Reino Unido ^{[ 17 ]}
• CERN ^{[ 18 ]}