EODOPEN: an international project to support copyright clearance

Abstract

The history of the project described in this article dates back to 2008, when the E-books on Demand (EoD) initiative was launched. (About the EoD project see Szalóki G.: Az „E-könyvek igény szerint” (EOD) szolgáltatás használói szemmel. = TMT, 55. vol. 10. no. 2008. pp. 461−469.) EoD entered the second phase in 2019 with the launch of the E-books on Demand – Network “EODOPEN” project, in which fifteen libraries in Europe are working to construct a joint database and related services, to digitize books and make them widely available. One of the members of this international partnership is the National Széchényi Library, Budapest (OSZK), whose main task is to design and develop a documentation tool for copyright clearance within its working group (WG6) that is simultaneously compatible with the national library's own systems and takes into account the interoperability requirements of partner institutions.