This document summarizes the key requirements for open access publication of books and monographs under Horizon Europe, the EU's research and innovation program. It outlines that immediate open access without embargo is required for books/monographs through both publishing and repository open access. CC BY or CC BY NC/ND licenses are mandatory. Publication fees will only be eligible if full open access is provided. The document also discusses potential approaches to financing open access books, including book processing charges, transformative arrangements to support publisher transitions, and sustained support for nonprofit publishing models.

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