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EODOPEN project goals are

to make 15 000 textual materials from the 20^th and 21^st centuries digitally available
to reach more than 1 million people in Europe, particulary young people and those with special needs
to spread best practice in rights clearance among the professional community internationally

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News

The EODOPEN second project meeting and the yearly EOD network meeting took place online on 13-15 May

Due to the current COVID-19 situation, the EODOPEN 2nd project meeting had to be moved online and 40 representatives of the 15 partner organisations from 11 countries joined from their home or library offices. On 13 to 15 May 2020, the project partners held a series of meetings of each work group and met colleagues from the EOD libraries.

EODOPEN launches surveys to identify users' experience of reading e-books

The EODOPEN working group „Delivery formats of digitised material for special needs“ (WG 4) led by the National and University Library of Slovenia (NUK) prepared a survey that aims to capture a broader insight into the reading experience of users and to get information about positive or negative characteristics of devices and formats that support e-books.

National Library of Estonia and UT Library call for suggestions for the digitisation of books

National Library of Estonia and University of Tartu Library call everybody to suggest which books, written by Estonian authors, should be digitised in the first order. Digitisation will be carried out under the four-year-long European project EODOPEN, aiming at making 15 000 texts from the 20th and 21st centuries digitally accessible to all in the digital format.

EODOPEN Launched to Digitize 15 000 Books

On November 19, the kick-off meeting of the 4-year project EODOPEN, co-financed by the European Commission under the Culture Programme, took place at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. The aim of the project is to digitize 15,000 textual materials from the...

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Project status: 74 books digitized, 368000 people reached, 3,5 years to go

Partners

The project consortium is led by the University of Innsbruck (UIBK) and consists of 15 partners representing 11 European countries ranging from the most Western part of Europe to the most Eastern part.

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