OPERAS membership

Do you want to become an OPERAS member?

OPERAS has over 70 members in 25 countries, including 4 members from The Netherlands. View the members.

There are three types of membership available to you, and the application process required to become an OPERAS member is described below.

We would like to encourage Dutch institutions to join OPERAS as an ordinary member (which is free). Current Dutch members of OPERAS are

  • DOAB (ordinary member)
  • Linguistics in Open Access – LingOA (ordinary member)
  • OAPEN (core member, national node)
  • SPARC Europe (supporting member)

Learn more.

Types of membership

Ordinary member

Must participate in at least one Special Interest Group (SIG) equivalent to 10% Full-time Equivalent (FTE) commitment in-kind, with voting rights in the Assembly of Commons.

Core member

Must participate in the Assembly of Commons and Executive Assembly, equivalent to 20% FTE commitment in-kind, with voting rights in the Assembly of Commons and the Executive Assembly. To support OPERAS AISBL by an annual 5,000€ membership fee.

Supporting member

Must participate in the General Assembly. To support OPERAS AISBL by an annual 10,000€ membership fee.

Application process

  1. Send the signed Rules of Participation to pierre.mounier@operas-eu.org.
  2. Answer the online questionnaire about your organisation, available at this link: https://surveys.ekt.gr/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=829761&lang=en.
  3. Request an interview with OPERAS coordinator and OPERAS-NL. Email this request to pierre.mounier@operas-eu.org.

Please note that membership is reserved for organisations and is not open to individuals.