EU Collection

Open Science is at the centre of European research policy. The European Union (EU) has a strong mandate to open access to scientific information in research and innovation, which includes peer-reviewed scientific publications and scientific research data.

The Commission supports open access, specifically in its funding programmes, including support for OA monographs. The Commission partnered with OAPEN to form a dedicated collection of their funded OA books and recommend depositing them in the OAPEN Library to comply with requirements.

The EU Collection consists of OA books from the following grant funding programmes:

Deposit your EU-funded publication using this form.

OAPEN encourages publishers to deposit books into the OAPEN Library on behalf of authors.

Read more about the EU’s support for open access.

Read more about the EU’s open science policy.