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Irish Open Access Publishers (IOAP)
IOAP is an initiative founded by Irish libraries in 2021 to strengthen Diamond OA publishing in t...
SPARC Unbundling Profiles
This is a series of profiles written by SPARC, providing detailed case studies from a series of i...
Library Partnership Rating
The Library Partnership Rating is a collaborative and library-developed framework for librarians ...
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...
KOALA-AV
This is a German consortial, government-funded funding project (2023-2025 ongoing). It collaborat...
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 ...
Edinburgh Diamond
Edinburgh Diamond, part of the Edinburgh University Library, is a Diamond OA service provision wh...
Platinum Open Access Funding (PLATO)
PLATO was a project undertaken by six Swiss universities and funded by swissuniversities, the umb...
Open Institutional Publishing Association (OIPA)
OIPA was launched in 2023 as a network for small/medium university presses and university-affilia...
Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP)
Lyrasis' OACIP provides a community-driven framework to evaluate and collectively fund Diamond Op...
‘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...
Open Access Books Network (OABN)
"The OA Mythbusters’ series was launched for 2021 Open Access Week. Through this video series the...
OAPEN OA Books Toolkit
"This collection of case studies features a group of authors who explain in their own words how o...
Boydell & Brewer
"In Spring 2023 we launched Boydell & Brewer Open Access, to make it easy for readers to browse a...
Assistive Technology Tests
We recommend running at least a sample of eBooks through assistive technology in order to double ...
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...
SCURL EDI Network: EDI toolkit
This toolkit from the SCURL EDI Network aims to support member libraries in embedding good practi...
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 ...
Open Book Collective toolkit
The Open Book Collective toolkit is for small, scholar-led OA publishers who are either setting u...
OAPEN: OA books toolkit
This toolkit aims to help book authors to better understand open access book publishing and to in...