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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.

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TRIPLE - Transforming Research Through Innovative Practices for Linked Interdisciplinary Exploration is a EU funded project under the INFRAEOSC-02-2019 - Prototyping new innovative services topic, which started in October 2019 and will end in March 2023. Its main objective is to design and develop a discovery platform for SSH, called GOTRIPLE. This deliverable is the main outcome of Task 6.1 which started at M4 at ends at M36, whose aim is to deal with the definition and the set-up of general TRIPLE's interoperability requirements, considering all the components which are composing the TRIPLE ecosystem (data, resources and tools). As preliminary results, we thus present here a general overview of the main EOSC interoperability requirements and specifications, both coming from a mapping of the EOSC Working Groups outputs, and of the most relevant results of EOSC related projects related to TRIPLE. We also attempt to provide TRIPLE's answers, proposals and solutions to the above mentioned requirements. The final picture presents different levels of precision, which depends on the fluidity of the EOSC definition on the one hand, and on the consequent fact that some implications are still unclear, and a discussion on the measures to address EOSC requirements is still on-going. While tackling interoperability, we introduce TRIPLE in its context in order to locate the GOTRIPLE platform in the EOSC frame, and more specifically in the SSH cluster of the EOSC (section 1). Section 2 defines the general interoperability requirements, starting with the software (2.2) and then presents an analysis of the main outputs released by the EOSC Working groups (2.3), taking into consideration as a general reference, the EOSC Interoperability Framework, and, more specifically, the FAIR and Architecture WGs documents (2.3.2, 2.3.4). These are the main guiding references for the design and realization of the EOSC, considering specifically interoperability. Section 2.3.3 illustrates how TRIPLE is translating into practice the FAIR requirements, while section 2.3.5 is focused on TRIPLE current decisions regarding the integration of the TRIPLE solution into the EOSC. To present an enriched scenario, the section includes as well a brief overview of other relevant outputs released by the EOSC WGs (Landscape, RoP, Sustainability and Skills and Training) (2.3.6). With the aim to provide a comprehensive analysis of the EOSC interoperability requirements, the WP6 partners have analyzed relevant deliverables produced by the main EOSC related projects as preparatory activity. The analysis was useful to understand the EOSC environment and its evolution in terms of interoperability and at the same time to understand which external deliverables have to be taken into consideration for the overall project development in TRIPLE. Section 3 includes a synthesis of this work, which is fully presented in Annex I. Section 4 - Conclusions and Outlook, outlines TRIPLE's the next steps to achieve interoperability and the strategies that will be adopted.

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.