Vilnius University Library has joined an international project EODOPEN (eBooks-On-Demand-Network Opening Publications for European Netizens). The four-year project aims at digitising and opening up 15 thousand documents and literary works from the 20th and 21st century for European netizens.
Libraries all over Europe face the difficulty of managing tremendous amounts of 20th and 21st century textual materials which have not yet been digitised because of the complex copyright situation. These works cannot be accessed by the general public and are slumbering deep in library stacks, as they are often out-of-print or have never even been in-print at all and reprints or facsimiles are out of sight.
The EODOPEN project, as proposed by 15 libraries from 11 European countries, focuses on bringing these digitally-hidden works to the public forefront by digitising and making them available on a pan-European level whilst fully respecting current copyright regimes.
In 2020, as an input to the project, Vilnius University Library is going to digitise 250 documents and literary works that are relevant to the University’s community and general public of Lithuania.
If you have any suggestions on what documents should be digitised, please contact us at Open up Hidden Knowledge!
Project partners: University of Innsbruck (Austria), University of Tartu (Estonia), National and University Library (Slovenia), Moravian Library (Czech Republic), University of Greifswald (Germany), National Library of Estonia (Estonia), Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland), University Regensburg (Germany), Research Library in Olomouc (Czech Republic), National Library of Portugal (Portugal), National Library of Sweden (Sweden), Vilnius University Library (Lithuania), Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (Slovakia), Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic), National Széchényi Library (Hungary)
Head of the project at Vilnius University Library: Dr Žibutė Petrauskienė (, (+370 5) 219 5090)
Official website of the project: http://eodopen.eu/en
Jonė Šulcaitė-Brollo