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also creating a network of stakeholders
(libraries, universities, funders, scholars,
and publishers) in scholarly publishing
and performing serious research into
the needs of the stakeholders - e.g. the
just released User Needs Report (138
pp.) available at www.oapen.org. Part
of the OAPEN mission is also to develop
the technical platform that will hold the
OAPEN Collection which will contain peer
reviewed monographs, open access in
their original language.
If efficient business models can be found,
the OAPEN model might be among the
sustainable solutions for the threatened
monographs in Europe. Another already
working model can be seen across
the Atlantic where the University of
California Press and the California Digital
Library collaborate as service providers
(UCPubS) for UC institutes and centres.
Yet the American initiative does not have
to handle 23 different (all official) EU
languages! There are great challenges
and opportunities ahead for the scholarly
monograph and for the scholarly
publishers. In the process of change the
role of the research libraries is of great
importance. Collaboration between libraries,
universities and scholarly publishers is
necessary.
marianne alenius graduated from
Copenhagen University in 1978 as MA in
Latin & BA in Greek. In 1989 she became
a PhD in Scandinavian Studies and the
same year library consultant at the Royal
Library Future Programme and managing
director at Museum Tusculanum Press,
University of Copenhagen. Board member
of The Danish Publishers Association
and member of the board of The Danish
Copyright Centre (CopyDan). Former
president of the Danish association of
University Publishers. Together with Niels
Stern she has been work group leader in
the Nordic open access project NOAP -
Aiding Scientific Journals towards Open
Access Publishing (http://www.ub.uit.no/
wiki/noap, 2007-09) headed by Lund
University Libraries and supported by
Nordbib (Nordic Council). She is currently
a member of the Consortium Board of
the European Open Access project for
scholarly publishers in the Humanities and
Social Sciences OAPEN (Open Access
Publishing in European Networks - www.
oapen.org, 2008-11) under the eContentplus
(EU) programme.
niels stern has studied Political Science
at the University of Aarhus and graduated
as MA at the Department of Nordic
Literature and Linguistics at the University
of Copenhagen. In addition to this he
graduated as MA from the Department
of Communication at Goldsmiths College,
University of London. He worked for
several years as a media producer for
the Danish Broadcasting Corporation
before joining Museum Tusculanum Press
in 2003 as an e-publishing project coordinator
and later as Head of Marketing
and e-Publishing. Together with Marianne
Alenius he has been work group leader
in the Nordic open access project NOAP
- Aiding Scientific Journals towards Open
Access Publishing (http://www.ub.uit.no/
wiki/noap, 2007-09) headed by Lund
University Libraries and supported by
Nordbib (Nordic Council). He is currently
a member of the Project Management
Team of the European Open Access
project for scholarly publishers in the
Humanities and Social Sciences OAPEN
(Open Access Publishing in European
Networks - www.oapen.org, 2008-11)
under the eContentplus (EU) programme.
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