The Holy Grail does not exist: OPERAS-P and OASPA’s workshops for publishers on innovative business models for books – OAPEN – supporting the transition to open access for academic books

By Agata Morka & Tom Mosterd In May 2021, together with the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), OPERAS hosted a series of three European workshops on business models for open access books targeted specifically at small and medium-sized academic book publishers1. As part of the OPERAS-P project work package 6 (Innovation) OPERAS was looking into innovative, non-BPC business models. The feedback gathered in the course of these three workshops informed a report The Future of scholarly communications, published at the end of June 2021 as an OPERAS-P project deliverable. [...]