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Experimental Publishing Compendium
The Experimental Publishing Compendium is a guide and reference for scholars, publishers, develop...
European University Association: The new university Open Access checklist
This checklist, produced in 2021, made recommendations for advocacy and actions to support open a...
DIAMAS Best Practices checklist for Diamond OA publishers
This self-assessment checklist from the DIAMAS project is for publishers of Diamond OA books and ...
SCURL EDI Network: EDI toolkit
This toolkit from the SCURL EDI Network aims to support member libraries in embedding good practi...
Open Book Collective toolkit
The Open Book Collective toolkit is for small, scholar-led OA publishers who are either setting u...
COPIM's toolkit for running an Opening the Future programme at an academic press
This document sets out how Copim implemented the Opening the Future (OtF) model, including the do...
Scholarly Communication Toolkit: Open Access Policies & Publishing toolkit
This resource has also pointed to some other toolkits that could be interesting as a lot of them ...
New University Press toolkit
An online guide from Jisc supporting and giving guidance to new university presses and library-le...
OAPEN: OA books toolkit
This toolkit aims to help book authors to better understand open access book publishing and to in...
Toolkit to foster Open Access Agreements for Smaller Independent Publishers (cOAlitionS)
This toolkit was developed by Information Power, commissioned by cOAlition S and ALPSP. It provid...
Focused Toolkit for Journal Editors and Publishers: Building Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Editorial Roles and Peer Review (C4DISC)
The toolkit is focused on building representation among peer reviewers and fostering equity in th...
Copim Compass. A guide
This toolkit is the output of one of Copim's Open Book Futures project deliverables: to establish...
Pilot project documentation and seminars
The Experimental Publishing Group run experimental book pilot projects with authors and publisher...
The White Rose University Consortium
The White Rose University Consortium is a strategic partnership between the Universities of Leeds...
Report from a workshop on sustainable open access book publishing in East Africa
In October 2024, a collaborative online-session for publishers from East Africa was co-organised ...
TOME Stakeholder Value Assessment: Final Report
The concluding report about the author experiences with the TOME project, and more general conclu...
TOME Report: The Cost to Publish TOME Monographs
A study of the costs incurred by US university presses in publishing scholarly monographs as part...
Supporting learned society, subject association, and smaller specialist publishers to transition to open access book publishing
This report, the result of a collaboration between UKRI, ALPSP, the British Academy, OASPA and In...
PALOMERA Recommendations for Open Access Academic Book Policies
The PALOMERA project, which ended in early 2025, aimed to ensure academic books and monographs ar...
Landscape report on scholarly publishing in Ireland
This report maps scholarly publishing on the island of Ireland. It documents publishers on the is...