OAPEN Foundation

Title	OAPEN Foundation
Class	Supporting Services and Infrastructure (Non-Commercial)
URL	http://www.oapen.org
Owner	OAPEN Foundation
Address	Visiting address: Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5, 2595 BE The Hague, Netherlands Postal address: PO Box 90407, 2509 LK The Hague, Netherlands
Copyright and Licensing	http://www.oapen.org/about?page=support&subpage=forreaders
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. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
OASPA Compliant OA Books	OAPEN Library (www.oapen.org) currently contains 1704 freely accessible books from 53 publishers,826 of these books have a CC license. DOAB (www.doabooks.org) currently lists 1471 OA books from 49 publishers (Status August 2013).
Initiatives	OAPEN Foundation is dedicated to Open Access publishing of academic books and provides services to publishers, libraries and research funders. OAPEN Library (www.oapen.org) is a deposit service for the full text dissemination of OA books. The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB – http://www.doabooks.org) is a discovery service for OA books.
Peer review policy	http://www.oapen.org/peerreview?page=intro 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, and editors (including series editors) should not act as reviewers.