Master of Christmas Trees

Niels Stern

doi:10.7557/12.8361

Authors

Niels Stern OAPEN Foundation https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6466-9748

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/12.8361

Keywords:

Open Access books, policy, PALOMERA, community, stakeholder involvement, co-creation

Abstract

The article describes the highly collaborative process of the creation of policy recommendations for Open Access books within the EU-funded project PALOMERA (Policy Alignment of Open access Monographs in the European Research Area). Johan Rooryck played a leading role in this specific project task. Extensive stakeholder involvement and iterative validation exercises ensured greater recommendation alignment and created community engagement, which in their turn increase the recommendations’ chances for being implemented. The recommendations are an important stepping stone for the policy development of open and equitable academic book publishing.

Author Biography

Niels Stern, OAPEN Foundation

Niels Stern is Managing Director of the OAPEN Foundation and Co-director of DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books). He has worked in scholarly publishing for more than twenty years and was a co-founder of the OAPEN project in 2008. For several years he was also engaged in policymaking at the Nordic Council of Ministers. Since 2014 he has served the European Commission as an independent expert on open science and e-infrastructures. Before re-joining OAPEN in 2021, he was Head of Department at the Royal Danish Library overseeing licensing and e-acquisitions for five universities and responsible for the national library consortium in Denmark. He is a member of the OPERAS Executive Assembly, Vice-Chair of the Open Book Collective, and serves on several advisory boards and committees.

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