Copim Compass - A Guide
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This essentiallytoolkit -is startthe outoutput of one of Copim's Open Book Futures project deliverables: to establish a knowledge base to provide comprehensive resources on alternative funding models and modes of publishing, acquiring and archiving open access books, alongside new training and guidance on archiving and preservation best practice.
Our aim was to (a) develop resources for stakeholders, (b) consolidate existing resources, (c) promote business models best practice, and (d) showcase project work on metadata, experimental publishing and archiving. By providing a comprehensive tool suite of resources we will accelerate outreach to libraries, publishers, academics and the wider public, to advocate for, advise on and encourage open access publishing and initiatives.
In the course of our scoping research and gap analysis, we discovered that a great many resources, guidelines, and toolkits have been developed in the last few years, many of which are regularly maintained and updated, and that many others are currently under development. We therefore developed Copim Compass with two principal aims:
1) That a bitvaluable exercise would be in collating these existing resources, categorising them, and providing a central signposting location for external resources; aiming to complement rather than re-develop.
2) One of the rationalemajor forexisting thislacunae (cribwe identified was one which was well within our project competency: a resource on transitioning publishers from theclosed zenodoto report)open and explain the division of this.access.