PALOMERA

Acrónimo: PALOMERA

Objetivo temático: Provide actionable recommendations and concrete resources to support and coordinate aligned funder and institutional policies for OA books, with the overall objective of speeding up the transition to open access for books to further promote open science.

Área Científica: Social Sciences and Humanities

Síntese do Projeto: Academic books continue to play an important role in scholarly production and research communication, particularly in the social sciences and humanities. As an important output of scholarly production, academic books must be included in open science/open access policies and strategies developed by research funders and institutions, to ensure that open science becomes the modus operandi of modern science across all disciplines. However, contrary to article publishing in journals (especially in the areas of Science, Technology, and Medicine) academic books have not been a focus point for open access (OA) policymakers. Consequently books are only rarely mandated to be published OA by research funders and institutions. PALOMERA will investigate the reasons for this situation across geographies, languages, economies, and disciplines within the European Research Area (ERA). Through desk studies, surveys, in-depth interviews, and use cases, PALOMERA will collect, structure, analyse, and make available knowledge that can explain the challenges and bottlenecks that prevent OA to academic books. Based on this evidence PALOMERA will provide actionable recommendations and concrete resources to support and coordinate aligned funder and institutional policies for OA books, with the overall objective of speeding up the transition to open access for books to further promote open science. The recommendations will address all relevant stakeholders (research funders and institutions, researchers, publishers, infrastructure providers, libraries, and national policymakers). The PALOMERA consortium broadly represents all relevant stakeholders for OA academic books, but will facilitate co-creation and validation events throughout the project to ensure that the views and voices of all relevant stakeholders are represented, promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.This will assure maximal consensus and take-up of the recommendations.

Área de intervenção: Open Science – Scholarly Communication

Investigador Responsável na UC: Delfim Ferreira Leão

Unidade Orgânica UC: Reitoria

Instituições participantes no Projeto:

1. Stichting OAPEN*Open Access Publishing in European Networks (Países Baixos)
2. Svenska Handelshogskolan (Finlândia)
3. Instytut Badan Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk (Polónia)
4. Stichting LIBER (Países Baixos)
5. Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
6. Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (França)
7. Fondation Européenne de la Science (França)
8. Znanstvenoraziskovalni Center Slovenske Akademije Znanosti in Umetnosti (Eslovénia)
9. Stichting SPARC Europe (Países Baixos)
10. Universitaet Bielefeld (Alemanha)
11. Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen Stiftung Offentlichen Rechts (Alemanha)
12. Stichting Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (Países Baixos)
13. Universite d'Aix Marseille (França)

Associated Partners:

1. Open Book Publishers Community Interest Company (Reino Unido)
2. JISC L.B.G. (Reino Unido)

Instituição Financiadora/Gestora: European Research Executive Agency - Comissão Europeia

Programa de Financiamento:

Horizon Europe Programme - Call HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ERA-01 topic HORIZONWIDERA-2022-ERA-01-42: Supporting the development of aligned policies for open access books and monographs

Período de execução: 01.01.2023 a 31.12.2024

Custo total elegível (EUR): 1 859 812,50 Eur

Apoio financeiro da UE: 1 859 812,50 Eur

Apoio financeiro público nacional: 0,00 Eur

Técnico do Projeto: Mónica Rocha

Contacto: 239247043 - Extensão 210028