<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The biggest landscape study on the conditions and potentials for Open Access books yet has just been published: </font></span><span style="font-size:12.8px">"A landscape study on open access and monographs: Policies, funding and publishing in eight European countries", </span><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.815932" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://doi.org/10.<wbr>5281/zenodo.815932</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">The study builds on i.a. 73 in-depth conversations, conducted across eight different countries (Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Norway and Austria) to understand current developments among three stakeholder groups: Publishers, funders and libraries. The importance of author attitudes, scholarly reward and incentive systems is also raised throughout the study by numerous interviewees.</font><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The report is authored by Eelco Ferwerda, Frances Pinter and Niels Stern and published by Knowledge Exchange <a href="http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/event/open-access-monographs" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.knowledge-<wbr>exchange.info/event/open-acces<wbr>s-monographs</a>. The study has been financed by Knowledge Exchange, FWF (Astria), CRIStin (Norway) and Couperin (France)<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Please share and enjoy.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Eelco Ferwerda, Frances Pinter, Niels Stern<br></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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