🔦 Spotlight on @openbookcollect report
Collective funding models for open access books: Librarians’ experiences & barriers to participation across six European contexts
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AIM 👉 learn from differing experiences in countries with different #OpenAccess policies and institutional context
INTERVIEWS 🗣️ librarians and other stakeholders in Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden
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The report provides INSIGHT into
🌟 How librarians understand collective funding models
🌟 Their ability to become involved in them
🌟 An analysis of existing research on collective funding models
🌟 A profile of each country’s current open access publishing context
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KEY FINDINGS 🗝️
There is a strong commitment to the idea of an #OA knowledge commons from librarians and researchers in many contexts across Europe as trust in OA initiatives has been eroded by corporate buyouts
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KEY FINDINGS 🗝️
👉 Usage data from OA initiatives helps justify investment decisions, but doesn’t resolve tensions
👉 Formal policies influence librarians’ OA decisions less than expected;
👉 Informal decision-making, faculty opinion and networking were seen as stronger factors
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RECOMMENDATIONS
The report also includes concrete recommendations for initiatives working to overcome barriers to the collective, #Diamond funding of #OpenAccess 💎
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