Frankfurt, October 6: <i>OAPEN – New Publisher-run Library with Open Access</i> <br><b><a href="http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/4329" target="_blank">Press Release</a></b>

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Museum Tusculanum Press is pleased to announce the date of the launch of the OAPEN Library – the first library of its kind committed to peer reviewed, open access monographs within the humanities and social sciences, initiated and run by publishers.
The official launch will take place at 12 a.m. on 6 October 2010, at the Frankfurt Book Fair (4.2 C 1433)
The launch of the library is the result of the EU-funded project OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks, www.oapen.org) in which Museum Tusculanum Press has collaborated with university presses in the Netherlands, England, Germany, France and Italy with a view to developing models for open access publishing of peer reviewed monographs within the humanities and social sciences.
This project – which will run until March 2011 – has produced a number of reports which, among other things, are based on research on user behaviour in relation to the mediation of research. These reports can be accessed at www.oapen.org/resources_page.asp. 
From 6 October the library will be open to the public via the website www.oapen.org. Questions about the project can be addressed to the undersigned or to the managing director of Museum Tusculanum Press, Marianne Alenius, (alenius@mtp.dk). 


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