Using the Opening the Future toolkit: An introduction to the resource

This toolkit sets out how we implemented the Opening the Future model, including the documentation of challenges, resources, timetables, and activities, from initial set up to renewals. It is intended as a roadmap for other presses that wish to implement an ‘Opening the Future’-esque model. 

In case you skipped over the previous section, a guide of guides, here is a breakdown of the next three books which focus on the Opening the Future model:

• Introduction and description: This section gives the background of, and context for, this particular model. It describes the model in detail and explains how it differs from other similar models. It also provides some direct feedback from those who have already implemented the model. 
• Financial modelling: this section provides the detailed financial modelling spreadsheets and other tools that our participating presses have used, in order for you to make your own calculations. 
• Workflows and partners: this section provides information about the relevant workflows for using Opening the Future, including details of relevant third party services, licence templates, and a lengthy FAQ that we have built up over several years of outreach and troubleshooting to authors, libraries, and publishers. 

Some of the pages are quite long as we felt that a certain level of detail would be useful. Where this is the case, we begin the page with an executive summary that gives you the key points.