OPERAS

Open Access Books Network becomes an OPERAS Special Interest Group

On: April 4, 2022

The Open Access Books Network (OABN) is pleased to share that it has become an OPERAS Special Interest Group (SIG), and as such it is now formally supported by OPERAS, the European Research Infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in the European Research Area. Read More →

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