Business models
This section provides links to information about OA business models. These largely focus on the different types available, how they work, their pros and cons, and some other relevant information about funding such as UKRI's OA policy and implementation of OA book funding. Other resources, such as Jisc's Open policy finder (formerly know as the Sherpa suite of resources) and the Open Book Environment, collate publisher policies around OA and BPC costs.
While our focus remains on OA books in particular, we have included a couple of more journal-focussed resources where they take a holistic view of a publisher rather than focus solely on their journal output.
An introduction to UKRI’s fund for longform outputs
This is a guide for UKRI-funded authors on how to use the UKRI research fund to make their longfo...
Business Models for Open Access Books
This collection of case studies was brought together by Lucy Barnes of Open Book Publishers and F...
Classifying open access business models
This opinion piece by Tasha Mellins-Cohen (founder at Mellins-Cohen Consulting and Executive Dire...
Consider your options: explore the different funding streams for Diamond Open Access
This guide (an output from the DIAMAS project) lists different funding streams for Diamond OA pub...
Cookbook for Open Access books
This book describes the experiences of setting up a community-based publisher, Language Science P...
Open Book Environment (OBE) Dashboard
Open Book Environment (OBE) Dashboard is a joint initiative from the Universities of Derby and Ve...
Open policy finder (Jisc)
'Open Access for Books' is a new addition to Jisc’s well established Sherpa toolsuite of resource...
Plan S: New tool to assess equity in scholarly communication models
This online assessment tool, launched in 2024, enables self-assessment of financial models by fun...
Toolkit to foster Open Access Agreements for Smaller Independent Publishers (cOAlition S)
The toolkit was developed by Information Power, working together with librarians, publishers and ...