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“Recommendation 1: That higher education institutions and research funders include scholarly books in their guidelines for open access to publications.” (National Library of Sweden, 2021, p. 20)

“Recommendation 2: That higher education institutions and funders set aside resources for financial support for the publishing of open access scholarly books.”

“Recommendation 3: That higher education institutions and funders provide continued and increased financial support for existing and new central infrastructure services for open access and coordination of infrastructure.

“Other proposals: In addition to the above recommendations, the study proposes that a national study is conducted with the aim of investigating what a possible financial support for publishers' transition to open access publishing, as requested according to the completed survey, might look like and on what conditions such support could be distributed.” (National Library of Sweden, 2021, p. 20)