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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...
New University Press toolkit
An online guide from Jisc supporting and giving guidance to new university presses and library-le...
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 ...
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...
European Research Area (ERA)
The European Research Area (ERA) is the ambition to create a single, borderless market for resear...
Projects
Copim Open Book Futures Copim is a community of people, organisations, and infrastructures wor...
Organisations
AG Universitätsverlage (University Press Association) AG Universitätsverlage brings together p...
Equity & Diversity
C4DISC - A Focused Toolkit for Journal Editors and Publishers: Building Diversity, Equity, Incl...
Accessibility
Copim Open Book Futures is producing its own resource on Accessibility in OA books; this will be ...