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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.

Research and development are facilitated by sharing knowledge bases, and the innovation process benefits from collaborative efforts that involve the collective utilization of data. Until now, most companies and organizations have produced and collected various types of data, and stored them in data silos that still have to be integrated with one another in order to enable knowledge creation. For this to happen, both public and private actors must adopt a flexible approach to achieve the necessary transition to break data silos and create collaborative data sharing between data producers and users. In this paper, we investigate several factors influencing cooperative data usage and explore the challenges posed by the participation in cross-organizational data ecosystems by performing an interview study among stakeholders from private and public organizations in the context of the project IDE@S, which aims at fostering the cooperation in data science in the Austrian federal state of Styria. We highlight technological and organizational requirements of data infrastructure, expertise, and practises towards collaborative data usage.

Prikaz prve međunarodne DARIAH-HR konferencije Digital Humanities & Heritage, koja se održala u Zadru 13. - 15. listopada 2021.

"Im Bereich der Digital Humanities (DH) gilt der offene Zugang zu Wissen und den Ergebnissen wissenschaftlicher Forschung als Selbstverst��ndlichkeit und aufgrund der Vorgaben nationaler und europ��ischer F��rderprogramme geradezu als Notwendigkeit. Andererseits sind Vertraulichkeit und Datenschutz ethische Grundanforderungen f��r die Verarbeitung personenbezogener (Forschungs-)Daten. Der Consent Form Wizard wurde von der DARIAH-EU Arbeitsgruppe ELDAH in Kooperation von Jurist*innen, Entwickler*innen und Wissenschaftler*innen entwickelt. Dieses frei online verf��gbare Werkzeug generiert standardisierte und DS-GVO-konforme Einwilligungserkl��rungen f��r Studienteilnehmer*innen, Benutzer*innen, Veranstaltungs- oder Umfrageteilnehmer*innen etc. im Kontext wissenschaftlicher Datenerhebungen und -verarbeitungen. Die zum gegenw��rtigen Zeitpunkt umgesetzten Anwendungsszenarien des Consent Form Wizards reichen, basierend auf den Befragungen von TeilnehmerInnen mehrerer internationaler DH-Veranstaltungen und themenspezifischer Workshops, von Zustimmungserkl��rungen f��r die Datenverarbeitung bei der Veranstaltungsorganisation, ��ber Ton- und Videoaufzeichnungen, Mailinglisten und Newsletter bis hin zur Verarbeitung personenbezogener Daten im Rahmen von Umfragen und Interviews in der Forschungspraxis." Ein Beitrag zur 8. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" - DHd 2022 Kulturen des digitalen Ged��chtnisses.

There have been significant recent developments in the OA publishing world, and an increasing focus on monographs in particular. There are a number of existing and emerging OA monograph policies, which are leading to an increased focus on business models. Given this dynamic landscape, it was felt that a more in-depth understanding was needed of European monograph publishers’ current business models for open access, their challenges, and their views on how infrastructure for open access monographs could be improved. This white paper builds on the previous OPERAS Business Models Special Interest Group white paper on Business Models for Open Access (Speicher, et al., 2018). In particular, OPERAS wished to gain a better understanding about how the social sciences and humanities (SSH) publishing community applies or could apply collaborative models for open access books, and what issues it encounters in this context. We further wanted to recognise the challenges publishers faced when engaging with or thinking about engaging in collaborative models for OA books. Are there sufficient funds, enough human resources? Are relevant infrastructures in place? What kind of support is needed? This white paper reports on an OPERAS survey, which was held between February and April 2021 and was designed to serve two core aims: To further our understanding of the scholarly publishing landscape and of the challenges that publishers face in the context of publishing OA monographs. To identify main trends (including opportunities and challenges) and the knowledge of collaborative funding and infrastructure models in OA publishing in SSH. The survey received a total of 77 responses from 17 countries: 14 EU states, the UK, Norway, and the United States. The results provide a more comprehensive insight into how OPERAS can make a tangible change and best support the community in building sustainable paths of transition towards collaborative models for open access books. This white paper presents some early observations from the preliminary analysis of the findings.

This report discusses the scholarly communication issues in Social Sciences and Humanities that are relevant to the future development and functioning of OPERAS. The outcomes collected here can be divided into two groups of innovations regarding 1) the operation of OPERAS, and 2) its activities. The “operational” issues include the ways in which an innovative research infrastructure should be governed (Chapter 1) as well as the business models for open access publications in Social Sciences and Humanities (Chapter 2). The other group of issues is dedicated to strategic areas where OPERAS and its services may play an instrumental role in providing, enabling, or unlocking innovation: FAIR data (Chapter 3), bibliodiversity and multilingualism in scholarly communication (Chapter 4), the future of scholarly writing (Chapter 5), and quality assessment (Chapter 6). Each chapter provides an overview of the main findings and challenges with emphasis on recommendations for OPERAS and other stakeholders like e- infrastructures, publishers, SSH researchers, research performing organisations, policy makers, and funders. Links to data and further publications stemming from work concerning particular tasks are located at the end of each chapter.

Ovaj je rad informativni članak o europskoj digitalnoj istraživačkoj infrastrukturi za humanističke znanosti i umjetnosti DARIAH-EU. Hrvatska je jedna od zemalja utemeljiteljica tog konzorcija, a nacionalni konzorcij okuplja nekoliko desetaka javnih znanstvenih, obrazovnih i baštinskih ustanova.

Published in OA on RESSI (http://www.ressi.ch/) on the 15.02.22. We present here highlights from an enquiry on the innovations in scholarly writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the H2020 project OPERAS-P. This article explores the theme of Open Research Data and its role in the emergence of new models of scholarly writing. We examine more closely the obstacles and fostering conditions to the publication of research data, both from a social and a technical perspective. International audience