Re: "Open Access Publishing in European Networks" (OAPEN)

[Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>]

Not true: the AAUP's Statement on Open Access explicitly 
addresses application of open access to books, giving some 
examples of projects already under way in this area, including 
the National Academies Press, which pioneered this approach many 
years ago. But this new European consortial effort, in which AAUP 
member the University of Amsterdam Press is involved, is indeed a 
major step forward and deserves the attention of everyone.

Sandy Thatcher
Penn State Press


>Dear colleagues,
>
>The discussion about open access on this list has regularly led
>contributors to explain that an open access model could - at best
>- only apply to scholarly articles/journals and not to
>monographs.  I'd like to draw your attention to the OAPEN project
>(see press release below) that has been selected for funding
>within the eContentplus Programme of the European Commission.
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Kurt De Belder
>University Librarian
>Leiden University
>T: +31 71 5272831
>F: +31 71 5272836
>E: K.F.K.De.Belder@library.leidenuniv.nl
>W:<http://library.leiden.edu/>
>P: http://website.leidenuniv.nl/~belderkfkde/english.htm


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