Speaker
Description
The Knowledge Exchange (KE) partners are six national organisations within Europe tasked with developing infrastructure and services to enable the use of digital technologies to improve higher education and research. To ensure awareness of the position of Open Access monographs KE published a “Landscape Study on Open Access and Monographs” in 2017. The report ( http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6693/1/Landscape_study_on_OA_and_Monographs_Oct_2017_KE.pdf ), which was widely downloaded found that both OA monographs and the policies and models that support them appear to be growing. However, it reported considerable variation between each country in the study. In 2018, KE commissioned a follow up survey ( http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/7101/ ) to help identify the next steps that should be considered in order to continue to support the transition to Open Access. This directly informed a workshop for key European stakeholders, held in Brussels in November 2018. This presentation will provide an overview of the results of the survey and the follow up workshop, which delveoped key themes, such as policy, author engagement, technical infrastructure and monitoring, and called for the development of a European roadmap for Open Access monographs.
