PALOMERA

The PALOMERA project sought to understand the policy landscape for open access books in the European context. What’s different about America?

« On 25 February 2025, representatives from 18 countries gathered online for the CoNOSC Members Meeting facilitated by SPARC Europe. This session took a closer look at the evolving landscape of Open Access (OA) books, with a timely focus on policymaking in light of the newly concluded EU-funded PALOMERA Project. (…) »

« A smart funding policy for digital books should lead to more open access in the social sciences and humanities. We asked: Which stakeholder groups should not be missing, and where is action needed most?

« Now that the PALOMERA project has ended after two years of in-depth work on OA book policy, the OABN is sharing this final blog post to describe the project’s outputs, reflect on its impact and report on the OABN webinar held on Wednesday 3…

« The PALOMERA project wraps up after two years of in-depth work on Open Access books policy in Europe. SPARC Europe is proud to have participated in this project.
PALOMERA has striven to speed up the transition to Open Access for books by deepening our knowledge…

« (…) In Deliverable 4.2, PALOMERA has developed an extensive set of actionable and aligned recommendations on Open Access (OA) books for eight stakeholders: (1) Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) and research institutes, (2) Public and private Research Funding Organisations (RFOs), (3) National policymakers, (4) Academic and national libraries, (5) Researchers, (6)…

« The three EU-funded projects CRAFT-OA, DIAMAS & PALOMERA work towards an equitable future for scholarly communication, with the scholarly community at the centre. In this third instalment of the cross-project webinar series, which took place online on the 6th of November 2024 (…) »

« The three EU-funded projects CRAFT-OA, DIAMAS & PALOMERA work towards an equitable future for scholarly communication, with the scholarly community at the centre. In this third instalment of the cross-project webinar series, the projects will present how they aim to help realise that vision by putting a spotlight on some…

« As part of the data collection for the project ’Policy Alignment for Open Access Monographs in the European Research Area’ (PALOMERA), a survey was designed and distributed on the needs, obstacles and challenges of policy-making for open access books. It was directed at various stakeholder groups and aimed to identify…

« The DIAMAS and PALOMERA projects will host a webinar on Tuesday 10 September 2024 from 14.00 to 15.30 CEST to engage learned societies and learn how to best support their publishing operations. Register here!
The learned society journal is the archetype of community-led scholarly publishing, a…