OAPEN Foundation

Title	OAPEN Foundation
Class	Infrastructure & Services (Non-Commercial)
URL	https://oapen.org/
Owner	OAPEN Foundation is a non-profit legal entity under Dutch law (‘stichting’) and is based at the National Library in The Hague.
Address	Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5, 2595 BE The Hague, NL
Copyright and Licensing Policy	OAPEN enables libraries and aggregators to use the metadata of all available titles of the OAPEN Library. All metadata feeds are available under a CC0 1.0 license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
OASPA Compliant OA Books	OAPEN Library (https://oapen.org/) is a repository of over 16,000 freely accessible books DOAB (https://doabooks.org/) currently indexes over 40,000 academic peer-reviewed books from more than 500 publishers (Status April 2021).
Initiatives	OAPEN Foundation is dedicated to open access publishing of academic books and provides services to publishers, libraries and research funders. OAPEN Library (https://oapen.org/) is a deposit service for the full text dissemination of OA books. The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB - https://doabooks.org/) is a discovery service for OA books.
Peer review policy	OAPEN screens publishers who wish to join the library and provide Open Access publications to the collection. OAPEN requires publishers to describe their peer review procedures and make these descriptions available for publication on the OAPEN website. The aim of transparency in peer review procedures is to ensure and promote academic standards. Reviewing should be conducted by independent peers and/or editorial boards. Editors (including series editors) should not act as reviewers.