Rest of World (we acknowledge this is a bad title!)

This primer, produced by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) in 2024, on library publishing in Canada. It has a focus on journal publishing. As well as providing a brief summary of the support available to journals at CARL libraries, it also summarises some of the core principles of library journal publishing more widely to do with commerciality and fees, diversity, and discovery/preservation. 

CARL have also produced further reports, some of which are region-specific, such as copyright for Crown-published works, and on OER policy and infrastructure. A full list of their outputs is here: https://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications-and-documents/  

See: https://www.carl-abrc.ca/publications-and-documents/

This  association, Open Access Australasia, advocates for and supports practical initiatives on open access in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. It is a large community, with several written resources, groups, directories, and others. 

See: https://oaaustralasia.org/

A series of blog posts which focus on OA books in a different country around the world, highlighting their regional experiences, problems and successes. This is an ongoing series that is still being updated, and unlike many OA resources provides (emic) perspectives from beyond the ERA.

See: https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/category/around-the-world-with-the-oabn/

A visual / interactive dashboard and an example of a multilingual, regional / RoW resource.

See: https://lookerstudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/c1c867bd-1b60-4241-8584-9423c10c081b/page/jyqmD

A landscape study on Diamond OA journals in Africa which provides detailed reports for several countries and thorough general conclusions about the state of Diamond OA journals in the region, their current challenges, and suggestions for the future. It also provides the survey data which provides a large amount of granular data.

See: https://www.eifl.net/news/landscape-study-no-fee-open-access-publishing-africa 

This relational diagram is an unparalleled resource in a very under-described region for OA books. While the EIFL report on OA in Africa is very detailed and informative it only deals with journals, while this focuses on books. The relationships are not always clear, and since this is a relational diagram it is not very descriptive, but it is a very useful starting point. 

The PDF of the relational diagram and the mission statement accompanying it are available here: