Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher

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The Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher (TOAEP) is an academic publisher specializing in international law and policy. [1] [2] Established in 2010, it is named after the late European international lawyer Torkel Opsahl (1931-1993). TOAEP originally grew out of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) as a research project. It is owned by the Centre for International Law Research and Policy (CILRAP), an independent international research centre incorporated in Brussels, Belgium, [3] but it has editorial independence. [4] TOAEP also works out of the CILRAP Bottega in Florence, Italy.

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TOAEP was the first academic e-publisher in international law, publishing both in print and freely online, [5] and the first publisher to be certified by the Digital Public Goods Alliance, along with its full catalogue. [6] It has five publication series in international criminal and humanitarian law, and other areas of international law, which are all available online and may be downloaded free of charge. [7] Its publications can also be accessed through the award-winning ICC Legal Tools Database and Lexsitus.

TOAEP's Editor-in-Chief is Morten Bergsmo, and it draws on an international team of editors and editorial assistants, prominently among them the Italian lawyer Antonio Angotti. [8] TOAEP has published more than 865 authors from around the world. [9] There have been more than 50 reviews of TOAEP books in international journals and yearbooks since 2010. [10] TOAEP has more than 40,000 subscribers to its new publications. [11]

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  1. ↑ Dominik Zimmermann (12 April 2011). "Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher".
  2. ↑ Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, official web site, at http://www.toaep.org/.
  3. ↑ Centre for International Law Research and Policy, official web site, at http://www.cilrap.org/.
  4. ↑ See http://www.toaep.org/about/.
  5. ↑ It is registered on the Open Access Map, a project which tracks open access resources and organisations at the global level, see http://www.openaccessmap.org/list/.
  6. ↑ See https://www.toaep.org/about.
  7. ↑ Publications can be downloaded from the TOAEP web page for each publication series (see, for example, https://toaep.org/ps/) or from Lexsitus (https://cilrap-lexsitus.org/toaep) or the ICC Legal Tools Database (https://www.legal-tools.org/search/).
  8. ↑ See https://www.cilrap.org/angotti.
  9. ↑ See the alphabetical list of all authors available at https://toaep.org/authors/. There is a separate list of Chinese and Indian authors only at https://toaep.org/authors/chinese-and-indian/.
  10. ↑ See the list at https://toaep.org/reviews/.
  11. ↑ See the general information provided at https://toaep.org/pbs/.
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