Is the biggest blocker to open access actually the economics of it all? Book Processing Charges don’t scale but they’re still the dominant method of funding OA monographs, despite the recent emergence of several alternatives to BPCs: collective funding models like Opening the Future, the Open Book Collective, Direct-2-Open etc. Through presentations and audience Q&A we’ll pose some provocative questions to explore this theme:

• How can these new models achieve sustainability and ‘get out from the back of the sofa’ of end-of-year leftover funds? - How can libraries prioritise these models from their budgets?
• How can the sector work together to promote and maximise these alternative models in the world of tight budgets?