From: Marin Dacos <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:12:54 +0200 Dear colleagues, We are proud to announce a new collaboration between two major european players in the field of open access in Human and Social sciences, Oapen and OpenEdition. Best regards, Marin Dacos ********* A new collaboration between OAPEN and OpenEdition http://www.openedition.org/7960?lang=en 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 aFreemium 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. -- Marin Dacos - http://www.openedition.org Director - Centre for Open Electronic Publishing - CNRS - EHESS - Aix-Marseille University (AMU) - University o Avignon OpenEdition is now a Facility of Excellence (Equipex) OpenEdition - 38 Rue Frédéric Joliot Curie - F - 13013 Marseille Cedex 20 Tél : +33 (0)4 13 55 03 40 Tél. direct : +33 (0)4 13 55 03 39 Skype : marin.dacos - Google hangout : [log in to unmask]