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Given the dynamic rate of change in the OA books business models landscape, the OPERAS Open Access Business Models Special Interest Group launched a survey in 2021 to 1) improve our understanding of the scholarly publishing landscape and of the challenges that publishers face in the context of publishing OA monographs; and 2) to identify main trends (including opportunities and challenges) and the knowledge of collaborative funding and infrastructure models in OA publishing in Social Science and the Humanities. This white paper updates and expands an earlier version published in 2021, which presented the preliminary analysis of the findings. Despite a small sample of presses meaning that no strong trends ought to be discussed, several insights were drawn and should be considered important directions for the future. Key findings in the report have been grouped into three main areas: collaboration, funding, and support. The report found that, although not opposed to the idea, a majority of presses do not engage in collaboration, specifically collaborative models for shared infrastructure, mainly due to the lack of knowledge and information, or perceived lack of need. This indicates that, for OA books, we are still at the early stage of the adoption curve for collaborative shared infrastructure. In terms of funding, most publishers perceive themselves to be somewhat sustainable. For institutional publishers, parent organisations are crucial as providers of financial or non-monetary support of OA. In addition, most publishers stress the need to have more resources and rely on more than one funding source, including grants and subsidies. The report found that awareness-raising and targeted support and training could be used to engage the presses but further incentivisation may be required to encourage publishers to collaborate more widely. We believe that the insights from this white paper may be interesting to a number of projects, such as DIAMAS, OPERAS-PLUS, and Palomera and have presented areas for further research and more specific actionable points for these projects.

SSHOC-NL is a collaboration between the social sciences and humanities that is cutting edge and unparalleled internationally. It will make it possible for researchers to securely and ethically link and analyse a huge range of data such as historical records, text data, images, survey data, and social media data. This will help them address some of the most pressing issues that society faces such as polarisation, social inequalities, and our changing environment. These issues are complex and require lots of different perspectives to be brought together in order to find solutions. SSHOC-NL builds the infrastructure for researchers to do that. This document is the grant proposal submitted to NWO Large-Scale Research Infrastructure: National Roadmap consortia 2021.

Launched in 2006 and officially founded as an ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) in 2014, DARIAH has long held a place in the SSH Research Landscape. These first years were focused more on the construction of our international research infrastructure and of the various national consortia, as well as policy and advocacy on behalf of our communities. DARIAH also served, and continues to serve, as an excellent incubator for European project grants and the creation of project consortia. In the last two years, however, DARIAH has reached a new phase of maturity, with better organizational processes, developed services, and a stronger network of humanities researchers across Europe and beyond. These efforts are headlined notably by the SSH Open Marketplace and DARIAH Campus platforms, discovery platforms for tools and services, and pedagogical materials, respectively. Joining with the existing, grassroots and researcher-led Working Groups, DARIAH now has multiple means of enabling research in social sciences and humanities in a way that is visible to the individual researcher. DARIAH’s evolution presents an interesting use case in building a digital research infrastructure on a European scale, showing how to put in place infrastructural components and know-how to help advance the cause of SSH research in an increasingly digital and changing research landscape.

The Reception Reader is a web tool for studying text reuse in the Early English Books Online (EEBO-TCP) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) data. Users can: 1) explore a visual overview of the reception of a work, or its incoming connections, across time based on shared text segments, 2) interactively survey the details of connected documents, and 3) examine the context of reused text for "close reading". We show examples of how the tool streamlines research and exploration tasks, and discuss the utility and limitations of the user interface along with its current data sources.

The Social Sciences and Humanities communities needed a central point to gather and exchange information about their tools, services, and datasets. Although plenty of project websites, service registries, and data repositories existed, they were mostly fragmented. The lack of contextualisation connecting these assets and offering domain-relevant means to discuss and enrich them was evident. Also, there was a need to digitalise this research domain which, in most cases, was not yet digital native. This siloed environment was the challenge SSHOC set out to bridge in January 2019. The solution to solve this problems was found in the SSH Open Marketplace, delivered in 2022. It is a discovery platform supporting researchers in the multi-faceted domain of humanities and social sciences at every step of the research data lifecycle. The SSH Open Marketplace is available on the EOSC Portal and was developed by SSHOC The full list of EOSC in practice stories is available here

PaNOSC deliverable D9.4 - Dissemination and outreach activities aims to showcase the results of the strategy and work plan laid out in the project's WP on Outreach / Communication and Dissemination / Impact, to reach out to the widest number of stakeholders by using a mix of channels and tools, towards the overarching goal of driving a cultural change in the PaN user community, by stimulating the adoption of more FAIR Open Data practices among the PaN scientific community.

Keynote presentation at Aalto's DARIAH Day on 30 November 2022, focused on the concrete ways in which DARIAH-EU lifts up scholars to enable them to do cutting-edge SSH research.

Keynote talk given at the DH_Budapest_2022 & DARIAH Days conference, 23-25 November 2022 at ELTE in Budapest, Hungary. This talk explains in concrete details how the DARIAH Infrastructure acts as a force multiplier for Social Science and Humanities Research, enabling researchers to conduct groundbreaking research in an open, European environment.

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This is the fourth discussion paper produced by the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network in consultation with the wider Digital Humanities (DH) Community in the two countries and beyond. It summarises the findings of the fourth workshop organised by the network, and offers recommendations based on these findings.