Describes the proposal of the Commission to open access in books and monographs in Horizon Europe.

1. Books and Monographs
in Horizon Europe
Victoria Tsoukala, PhD
DG R&I ,Open Science (Unit G4)
OPERAS conference, November 1, 2020

2. • Regulation of Horizon Europe (art. 2; 10; 35)
• Model Grant Agreement of Horizon Europe – to be published before end
2020
Open Science policy in Horizon Europe

3. • ‘To be ensured’- i.e. no exceptions
• Immediate OA- i.e. at publication
• Repository OA- i.e. publishing OA +repository OA
• Rights retention – enough rights to be retained by beneficiaries or authors
to provide OA required
• Licenses mandatory- CC BY or NC/ND for long-text formats
• Validation of conclusions of pubs- provide access to underlying data and
other outputs if not OA
• Publishing fees- only for fully OA publishing venues
Peer-reviewed publications:
the ingredients of this OA recipe

4. What does this mean for
books and monographs?

5. • Immediate open access without embargo to books/monographs
• Open access through a repository
• CC BY or CC BY NC or CC BY ND licenses
OA terms

6. • Monograph/book publication fees (including printing costs) eligible only if
open access to them is provided as required
• Costs for publication in edited volumes where some articles are open
and others are closed (hybrid) are not eligible.
Publication Fees

7. Brainstorming on financing oa
books and Plan S

8. • Align to Plan S principles
• Support full open access publishing and transition towards it
• Address the particularities of monograph/book writing and
publishing/existing business models and good practices
• Support a healthy and diverse scholarly book publishing environment
that is sustainable for funders and institutions in the long-term
• Have long-lasting effects in funder and institutional practices and the way
books are funded (short-term funding and long-term funding and investments)
Victoria’s expectations of the cOAlition S oa
book strategy and guidance to

9. • BPCs (allowing researchers to publish their books one-off in the cases of
grants). What would be the characteristics of these BPCs?
• Transformative arrangements (to help some publishers transition). How
would they look like?? What would be the requirements? Who would be
involved to run them? (membership/subscription)
• Sustained support to non-profit, institutional, collaborative and collective
business models that are demonstrably effective to scale-up services and
make them more efficient
• Support to proof-of-concept initiatives and services for book publishing
Non-exhaustive list, for discussion