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The first OPERAS Validation Workshop took place on 26/27 June 2017 in the Central Library in Amsterdam.The workshop has concluded the design phase of the OPERAS-D project and has planned the next steps. OPERAS-D project partners have presented 4 deliverables to the OPERAS consortium: the landscape study of open scholarly communication in Europe, the technical mapping of the OPERAS network, the online survey on future OPERAS services, and the future business and governance model of the OPERAS infrastructure. The findings are the main part of a design study.The OPERAS network has launched 8 working groups to explore future services OPERAS will develop. Each group will develop a white paper for mid-2018. Find out more about the working groups here: http://operas.hypotheses.org/working-groups. Find out more about the OPERAS-D project here: http://operas-eu.org/operas-d