04. Library Success Stories
Libraries are a vital and omnipresent part of open access publishing. Institutional publishing, generally in the form of university presses, is one major facet of this. Beyond that, libraries are the primary funder of collective open access funding; they provide BPCs for their institutional authors, they are also often their academics’ first point of information about open research and open access publishing. Yet often, from the perspective of authors and some publishers, libraries are a more silent partner; a funder for OA authors and a customer for publishers.
As part of Copim Compass, we wanted to showcase examples of library initiatives within open access, many of which are to do with funding and resource-sharing, all of which highlight that the library is an active participant in OA publishing, and not the passive recipient of the end product.
Not included here are stories about OA success within individual institutional publishers, which belong in the Publisher Success Stories. If you want to recommend library success stories for inclusion in the Copim Compass, please feel to contact us at info@copim.ac.uk.
Edinburgh Diamond
Edinburgh Diamond, part of the Edinburgh University Library, is a Diamond OA service provision wh...
How important are your values when you’re being squeezed?
This was a presentation by Bethany Logan, Associate Director of the University of Sussex, given a...
‘How Open Investing Will Transform Library Collections’ Demmy Verbeke & Curtis Brundy, Katina Magazine
This article, published in Katina Magazine in late 2024, provides a comprehensive overview of cur...
Irish Open Access Publishers (IOAP)
IOAP is an initiative founded by Irish libraries in 2021 to strengthen Diamond OA publishing in t...
KOALA-AV
This is a German consortial, government-funded funding project (2023-2025 ongoing). It collaborat...
Library Partnership Rating
The Library Partnership Rating is a collaborative and library-developed framework for librarians ...
Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP)
Lyrasis' OACIP provides a community-driven framework to evaluate and collectively fund Diamond Op...
Open Institutional Publishing Association (OIPA)
OIPA was launched in 2023 as a network for small/medium university presses and university-affilia...
Platinum Open Access Funding (PLATO)
PLATO was a project undertaken by six Swiss universities and funded by swissuniversities, the umb...
SPARC Unbundling Profiles
This is a series of profiles written by SPARC, providing detailed case studies from a series of i...
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS)
SCOSS is a consortium of organisations, founded in 2017, whose mission is to secure OA and open i...
The White Rose University Consortium
The White Rose University Consortium is a strategic partnership between the Universities of Leeds...
Trailblazers: an Open Access Monograph and Book Initiative for Early Career Researchers
Trailblazers is a joint initiative launched in 2024 between Lancaster University, the University ...