Knowledge Bases
PALOMERA Knowledge Base
The Knowledge Base is a collection of documents, such as reports, policies, survey results and statistics, relevant to Open Access (OA) policies regarding OA books in the European Research Area. The collection was created as part of the PALOMERA project. It is an unparalleled resource in terms of providing a centralised hub for OA documents from across the ERA in a range of languages, varying greatly in scope from individual publisher guidelines to national mandates. We definitely need to link to it although it is not very user-friendly or searchable.
Open Access Network: Open Access Books summary Infohub
Open Access Network: Open Access Books summary Infohub
A German language (English option available) online summary info hub on OA books. Comprehensive coverage of all things OA but content probably covered in other resources.
See: https://open-access.network/en/information/publishing/open-access-books
Sherpa Open Access for Books (Jisc)
Long awaited addition to Jisc’s well established Sherpa toolsuite of resources (journals) - this is a policy-finder developed to support the UKRI OA policy for longform, it is still relatively new (released early 2024) and a limited number of publisher data sets included. This is increasing and it will move to live release in autumn 2024. Strong sector and funder support.
Experimental Publishing Compendium
A comprehensive online resource created by Copim’s Experimental Publishing Group bringing together tools, practices, and books to promote and support the publication of experimental book publications. Shows the advantages and opportunities that online publishing can offer for innovative collaboration, interactions and experimentations.
Library Partnership Rating Rubric
The Library Partnership Rating is a collaborative and library-developed framework for librarians who seek to quantify the alignment of publishers with themselves as they consider investing library resources. It was first developed by Rachel Caldwell at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Robin Sinn at Iowa State University, although it now has a large advisory council made up of several libraries and publishers. The current iteration of the rubric, which has been adopted and adapted by many libraries as they consider OA investment offers (among other resource requests from publishers), covers journals specifically. However, a working group is currently aiming to expand its coverage to books. As it is primarily a US-focussed resource, librarians in other regions wishing to adopt a similar rubric may need to localise some parts of it.