Developing institutional policies for Open Access books

"Overall, Open Access is advancing well, but too often, institutional open access policies focus on journal publications, leaving out long-form publications, which are central in certain disciplines.

Therefore, the European University Association is jointly organising a webinar with the PALOMERA project (Policy Alignment of Open Access Monographs in the European Research Area) to raise awareness among university actors about Open Access books and long-form publications (including monographs, book chapters and edited collections). It will be held on 24 September 2024, from 15:00- 16.30 CEST.

This webinar will address the diversity of OA policies among universities and other research performing organisations in the European Research Area (ERA), focusing on the state of policy for Open Access books. As such, PALOMERA project partners will share results of a policy mapping research that has identified different national approaches to OA books policy. Key insights from this webinar will therefore include the added value of having a policy for OA books, which elements are most important within the scope of such a policy, what it would mean for a university to add books to its Open Access policy, and life-cycle thinking about policy development for Open Access and Open Science."