FREE UKSG webinar: Getting out from the back of the sofa: Or, how can we achieve sustainable funding for Open Access books? | UKSG

"Is the biggest blocker to open access books actually the economics of it all?  Book Processing Charges don't scale but they're still the dominant method of funding OA monographs, despite the recent emergence of several alternatives to BPCs: collective funding models like Opening the Future, the Open Book Collective, Direct 2 Open, Path to Open etc. 

Through presentations and audience Q&A we'll pose some provocative questions to explore this theme:

• How can these new models achieve sustainability and get out from the 'back of the sofa' of end-of-year leftover funds?
• How can libraries continue to make a strategic case for investing in these models when budgets are being cut?
• How can the sector work together to promote and maximise these alternative models in the world of increasingly tight budgets? 

With demand increasing for monographs to be open this is a timely and urgent discussion with library and publishing OA experts."