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D4.4 – PALOMERA 2nd Policy Brief
(2024) Stern, Niels; Gouzi, Françoise; Stone, Graham; Rooryck, Johan; Dreyer, Malte; Laakso, Mikael; Da Silva Ferreira, Nelson Henrique; Rabar, Ursula; Proudman, Vanessa
This deliverable is the second policy brief provided by the PALOMERA project. It provides an overview of the analysis performed in the project, its main results and methodology. Based on this research general and stakeholder specific recommendations have been formulated in actionable ways. The policy brief provides an oversight of this important outcome of the project. Furthermore, it describes other key results like the Knowledge Base (consisting of around 650 policy and policy-related documents), an extended OAPEN OA Books Toolkit (now including a policy section with 15 new articles presenting key findings of the project in an easy digestible format), and the establishment of a Funder Forum that key stakeholders like Science Europe, cOAlition S, and OAPEN are seeking to continue and coordinate as a Policy Forum for Open Access Books. The policy brief concludes by highlighting three PALOMERA recommendations that could be useful starting points for further advancing Open Access to books.
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Open4DE Spotlight on Austria. How European and National Levels Interact
(Zenodo, 2023) Bärwolff, Theresa; Benz, Martina; Dreyer, Malte; Neufend, Maike
Open4DE Spotlight on Open Access Policy Making in Austria. A report based on a interview with Stefan Hanslik, expert on Open Access and Open Science at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research.
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Open4DE Spotlight on Finland. An advanced culture of openness shaped by the research community
(Zenodo, 2023) Bärwolff, Theresa; Benz, Martina; Dreyer, Malte; Neufend, Maike
Open4DE Spotlight on Open Access Policy Making in Finland. A report based on a interview with Sami Niinimäki, counsellor of education in the department of higher education and science policy at the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture. The text highlights general national characteristics of the Finnish open science policy and practice developments, the report specifically mentions some comparisons to how things are and have evolved in Germany.
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Open4DE Spotlight on Sweden. How a Bottom-up Open Access Strategy Works without a National Policy
(Zenodo, 2023) Bärwolff, Theresa; Benz, Martina; Dreyer, Malte; Neufend, Maike
Open4DE Spotlight on Open Access Policy Making in Sweden. A report based on a interview with Wilhelm Widmark, director of Stockholm University Library.
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Open4DE Spotlight on the Open Access Ecosystem in Switzerland
(Zenodo, 2023) Bärwolff, Theresa; Benz, Martina; Dreyer, Malte; Neufend, Maike
Open4DE Spotlight on Open Access Policy Making in Switzerland. A report based on a interview with the Open Access Professionals Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kissling-Näf and André Hoffmann.
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PALOMERA Deliverable 3.1 – Report on Analysis Findings
(2024) Laakso, Mikael; Bandura-Morgan, Laura; Bazeliuk, Nataliia; Dreyer, Malte; Iannace, Davidee Emanuele; Manista, Gabriela; Matthias, Lisa; Proudman, Vanessa; da Silva Ferreira, Nelson Henrique; Stone, Graham; Wnuk, Magdalena
This report describes the work of WP3 (Analysing the Knowledge Base), which builds upon and extends the work of WP2 (Building the Knowledge Base). The primary objective of WP3 was to analyse the various data collected earlier in the project in order to gain insights into the current status of open access book policies in the European Research Area. The analysis findings documented in this deliverable serve as the foundation for WP4 (Recommendations and Resources), where actionable recommendations are provided for different stakeholder groups. In this report as well as throughout the project, academic books are defined as scholarly, peer-reviewed, books including monographs, book chapters, edited collections, critical editions, and other long-form scholarly works unless otherwise noted. Running from month 6 to month 21 of the project, WP3 conducted various analyses of the diverse datasets collected in the project: interviews, open access policies, surveys, and bibliometrics. Each dataset required a tailored analytical approach to leverage its unique contributions and derive meaningful insights, ensuring that the project’s objectives were met through a thorough and nuanced examination of the available information. For this purpose, the project has been oriented around conducting a holistic PESTLE-analysis since the initial design of the data collection, where the Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, and Environmental factors of OA policies and current challenges around OA book publishing are approached and interpreted from multiple perspectives in order to build a comprehensive understanding of the complex landscape. The analysis methodology underwent an external validation process during which three external experts (Janneke Adema, Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Charles Watkinson) provided valuable feedback for shaping the methodological approaches and presentation of results. The project analysed 246 OA policy documents from the ERA. For this research, we defined an OA policy as a document that: ● Is issued by a policymaker or an organisation that is either an RFO, RPO, library or infrastructure provider, or organisation with regional or national policy impact. ● Requires or encourages OA scholarly publications that are associated with or supported by the issuing organisation through funding, affiliation, or other forms of upstream involvement. This analysis revealed diverse practices when it comes to if and how OA books are present in current OA policies for all types of stakeholders. Our results indicate that OA book policies are still an emerging practice compared to the mature landscape there is for OA journal article policies. RFOs (Reserach Funding Organisations) were in general more strict in their requirements for OA to books when a policy was present, but also providing associated funding for making it OA directly through the publisher when a requirement was present, while RPOs more commonly had OA to books as a recommendation with self-archiving as a commonly mentioned pathway to achieve that. A quality we found many policies lacking was specificity with everything from definitions, responsibilities, and timeframes being so vague so as to make the policy ambiguous. The 42 interviews across different stakeholder groups and countries provided an important mechanism for elaborating on past, present, and future circumstances of OA books in the ERA countries beyond what formal policy documents can provide. The most frequently mentioned barriers that emerged during our interviews were a lack of available funding resources and OA book policies, as well as challenges for coordination on a national scale. The list of additional challenges is long, spanning all the PESTLE factors, which offer helpful guidance for anchoring strong OA book policies in different types of environments. We conducted an ERA-wide web survey that generated 420 complete responses from different stakeholder groups (national policymakers, RFOs, RPOs, publishers, libraries, infrastructure providers). Learned societies. In addition to mapping out awareness of current OA policies in different countries and types of organisations, a key thread of inquiry was related to the respondents attitudes towards the design of policies and policy measures for OA books. Declarations and policies were well known among respondents where such existed, particularly in centrally organised countries compared to countries with federal systems. A general tendency among respondents overall was calling out for more intensive stakeholder involvement across the board in the implementation of OA policies. Among the more detailed questions, transparent calculation of book processing charges was regarded as the most important statement concerning economic measures, and concerning technical infrastructures respondents were overwhelmingly in favour of publicly funded technical infrastructures rather than commercial solutions. The analysis in this deliverable includes a bibliometric investigation that provides an overview of what OpenAlex, the broadest bibliometric database based on open data, can tell us about the current information quality and prevalence of OA books during the last few years. Due to the many limitations of current bibliometrics databases comprehensively indexing in particular titles by national publishers we conducted a survey of national libraries in the ERA to establish to what degree they are able to track OA books, and to what degree such data can be shared by them. As a final step, we draw together the different strands of collected data and findings to the individual country-levels of the ERA in order to map commonalities and divergences in their current policy circumstances as well as other supporting aspects of OA book publishing. The OA policy frameworks in different countries show very different levels of presence and strictness, and also OA book funding and support mechanisms. While we could see that most countries had a moderate or strong technical infrastructure in the country, the opportunities for OA book publishing were quite often low or moderate with publishers in the country. As far as we are aware, this is the most comprehensive study on OA book policies yet, including not only a large and internationally diverse set of policies analysed in a structured and detailed way, but also through all the other supporting datasets that were collected in parallel in order to understand the circumstances of individual countries and stakeholder groups in an unprecedented and more detailed way. The Knowledge Base that has been the foundation of the project will persist as an open data resource to serve continued inquiries into this space, hopefully updating and extending the research which has been conducted within this project and this WP. The Open Access Book Toolkit managed by OAPEN has been extended with articles stemming from the analysis work in the project, creating an accessible pathway for dissemination of central findings from the project. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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PALOMERA Deliverable 4.2 - The PALOMERA Recommendations for Open Access Books
(2024) Bandura- Morgan, Laura; Bazeliuk, Nataliia; Davidson, Andrea; Dreyer, Malte; Caliman Fontes, Lorena; Fernandes Especiosa, Maria Olímpia; Ferreira, Nelson Henrique; Gatti, Rupert; Gouzi, Françoise; Iannace, Davide Emanuele; Laakso, Mikael; Leão, Delfim; Manista, Frank; Manista, Gabriela; Maryl, Maciej; Mounier, Pierre; Paltineanu, Sinziana; Papp Le Roy, Nora; Proudman, Vanessa; Rabar, Ursula; Redhead, Claire; Rooryck, Johan; Stern, Niels; Stone, Graham; Vrčon, Andrej
The PALOMERA project set out to understand the policy landscape of OA books and the challenges preventing research funders and institutions in particular from including books in their OA policies. One of the project’s main goals was to support the key stakeholders in the field by providing evidence-based, aligned, and actionable recommendations that can help formulate OA book policies. Open Access books are defined here as scholarly, peer-reviewed books including monographs, book chapters, edited collections, critical editions, and other long-form scholarly works. Textbooks and popular science books are seen as a different category, although the policy recommendations could potentially be extended to this category of books as well when they are published Open Access. Open textbooks are deliberately left out from this definition because they require a different process: policies regarding open textbooks must take into account considerations about Open Educational Resources, which are beyond the remit of the PALOMERA project. In Deliverable 4.2, PALOMERA has developed an extensive set of actionable and aligned recommendations on Open Access (OA) books for eight stakeholders: (1) Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) and research institutes, (2) Public and private Research Funding Organisations (RFOs), (3) National policymakers, (4) Academic and national libraries, (5) Researchers, (6) Learned societies, (7) Infrastructure providers, and (8) Academic publishers. These stakeholders are uniquely positioned to drive a transition to OA books by embedding OA principles for books into their policies and strategies. Since the current landscape of OA book policies is characterised by a lack of policy alignment between various relevant stakeholders, this change requires an aligned effort based on policy recommendations for various stakeholders that are grounded in solid evidence. The evidence for these recommendations has been provided by the Knowledge Base developed in WP2, which contains over 650 open access policy and related documents and a set of 40 stakeholder interviews, as well as on the research undertaken in WP3 which provides a unique overview of the OA books policy landscape in Europe. For each set of recommendations, we have defined a timeline by prioritising recommendations in terms of short term (1-2 years), medium term (3 years), and long term (4-5 years) time frames. The project has performed three validation exercises to check the validity of 1) the data collection and methodology; 2) the analytical approach, methodology, and key findings; and 3) the recommendations themselves. This approach was chosen to increase the engagement with all relevant stakeholders and to strengthen the outcomes of PALOMERA. The recommendations integrate the valuable comments of two reviewers, as well as the constructive comments from the subgroup on scholarly communication of the European University Association’s (EUA) Expert Group on Open Science and the LIBER Working Group on Open Access.
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PALOMERA Deliverable 4.3 - Report Describing Services A and B
(2024) Stern, Niels; Bandura-Morgan, Laura; Dreyer, Malte; Findanis, Jordy; Manista, Gabriela; Proudman, Vanessa; Rabar, Ursula; Rooryck, Johan; Silva Ferreira, Nelson; Stone, Graham
Delivering on its mission, PALOMERA has developed a rich Knowledge Base (KB) containing over 650 open access (OA) policy and related documents, a report describing the results of over 450 responses from across the ERA to a large survey performed by the project, and a set of 40 stakeholder interviews. The Knowledge Base forms the basis of the research undertaken in WP3 providing a unique overview of the OA books policy landscape in Europe. Some of this research has been distilled into short and well communicated articles published through the OAPEN OA Books Toolkit. Moreover, actionable recommendations have been developed to eight stakeholder groups based on this research and the Knowledge Base. To support the alignment of OA books policies, two services have been developed/designed as per the Grant Agreement: 1) the Funder Forum has been established where research funders and policymakers benefit from knowledge exchange and mutual learning, and 2) a Policy Development Tool has been conceptualised to help funders and institutions navigate the process of policy formulation and implementation. Both services are envisioned to support the project’s overall goal of accelerating the transition to open access for books. Whereas the Funder Forum could provide a useful instrument for RFOs and RPOs for knowledge exchange, mutual learning and coordination of services to support the implementation of OA book policies and strategies, the Policy Development Tool holds the potential to specifically help those RFOs and RPOs who want to develop a policy. Furthermore, the Policy Development Tool would also be closely aligned with the Funder Forum, where the tool could be further developed to better serve the needs of the RFOs in consultation with RPOs. This deliverable (D4.3) will describe these two services. Both services are intended to support and help coordinate aligned development of policies and strategies for OA books as defined in the Grant Agreement as the outcomes of T4.2 (WP4). In the Grant Agreement the two services are named Service A (the Funder Forum) and Service B (the Policy Development Tool). The deliverable will describe how the Funder Forum was established and provide a brief summary of each of the four Funder Forum meetings held during the project and their outcomes. Moreover, it will stipulate a sustainability plan for the Funder Forum to ensure its continuation beyond the project’s lifetime in alignment with the project’s exploitation plan. The deliverable will also describe the concept design of the Policy Development Tool (Service B). This tool will be described as a potential exploitable outcome of the building of the Knowledge Base (WP2), and based on the research (WP3) and the recommendations (WP4). The idea of the service is to provide RFOs and RPOs with a tool helping them to formulate and implement policies and strategies for OA books.
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PALOMERA interview transcript Austria 2023
Dreyer, Malte
One of the main objectives of the 2-years project PALOMERA (Policy Alignment of Open access Monographs in the European Research Area, 2023–2025) funded by Horizon Europe is to investigate the landscape of Open Access (OA) policies regarding academic books and provide access to relevant documentation via the Knowledge Base. Interviews with key stakeholders from ERA countries were part of the data collection. During this phase, researchers conducted 39 individual interviews and 3 group ones. Every interview was conducted online (via Zoom), and lasted around 60 minutes. Interview was recorded on the consortium Cloud,The interview were transcribed with HappyScribe, translated into English via DeepL (if needed), proofread and anonymised.
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PALOMERA interview transcript Germany (1) 2023
(2023) Dreyer, Malte
One of the main objectives of the 2-years project PALOMERA (Policy Alignment of Open access Monographs in the European Research Area, 2023–2025) funded by Horizon Europe is to investigate the landscape of Open Access (OA) policies regarding academic books and provide access to relevant documentation via the Knowledge Base. Interviews with key stakeholders from ERA countries were part of the data collection. During this phase, researchers conducted 39 individual interviews and 3 group ones. Every interview was conducted online (via Zoom), and lasted around 60 minutes. Interview was recorded on the consortium Cloud,The interview were transcribed with HappyScribe, translated into English via DeepL (if needed), proofread and anonymised.
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PALOMERA interview transcript Switzerland 2023
(2023) Dreyer, Malte
One of the main objectives of the 2-years project PALOMERA (Policy Alignment of Open access Monographs in the European Research Area, 2023–2025) funded by Horizon Europe is to investigate the landscape of Open Access (OA) policies regarding academic books and provide access to relevant documentation via the Knowledge Base. Interviews with key stakeholders from ERA countries were part of the data collection. During this phase, researchers conducted 39 individual interviews and 3 group ones. Every interview was conducted online (via Zoom), and lasted around 60 minutes. Interview was recorded on the consortium Cloud,The interview were transcribed with HappyScribe, translated into English via DeepL (if needed), proofread and anonymised.
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Questionnaire of the PALOMERA Survey on Open Access Book Policies
(2023) Dreyer, Malte; Stone, Graham; Tummes, Jan-Philip; Pogačnik, Aleš; Varachkina, Hanna; Bandura Morgan, Laura; Păltineanu, Sînziana; Proudman, Vanessa; Redhead, Claire; Manista, Gabriela; Laakso, Mikael; Pinter, Frances; Gaillard, Vinciane; Maryl, Maciej; Saenen, Bregt; Kingsley, Danny; Silva Ferreira, Nelson Henrique; Stern, Niels
This questionnaire was created as part of the PALOMERA survey on open access policies for books in the European research area (focusing on the needs, obstacles and challenges of policy-making for open access books).
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Report on the PALOMERA survey on open access policies for books in the European research area
(2024) Dreyer, Malte; Stone, Graham; Tummes, Jan-Philip; Gingold, Arnaud; Iannace, Davide Emanuele; Pogačnik, Aleš; Varachinka, Hanna; Bandura-Morgan, Laura; Barnes, Lucy; Laakso, Mikael; Manista, Gabriela; Mounier, Pierre; Păltineanu, Sînziana; Proudman, Vanessa; Redhead, Claire; Rooryck, Johan
As part of the data collection for the project ’Policy Alignment for Open Access Monographs in the European Research Area’ (PALOMERA), a survey was designed and distributed on the needs, obstacles and challenges of policy-making for open access books. It was directed at various stakeholder groups and aimed to identify attitudes and levels of knowledge about open access book policies in general and individual measures in particular. The report provides the result and overview of the survey with the questionnaire divided into six sections: 1) General information about the respondents; 2) Awareness of open access policy measures; 3) Stakeholders and players; 4) Attitudes towards the design of policies for open access for books; 5) Attitudes and policy measures for open access books; and 6) Policy measures.