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SPARC Unbundling Profiles

04. Library Success Stories

This is a series of profiles written by SPARC, providing detailed case studies from a series of i...

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Library Partnership Rating

04. Library Success Stories

The Library Partnership Rating is a collaborative and library-developed framework for librarians ...

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The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS)

04. Library Success Stories

SCOSS is a consortium of organisations, founded in 2017, whose mission is to secure OA and open i...

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KOALA-AV

04. Library Success Stories

This is a German consortial, government-funded funding project (2023-2025 ongoing). It collaborat...

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Trailblazers: an Open Access Monograph and Book Initiative for Early Career Researchers

04. Library Success Stories

Trailblazers is a joint initiative launched in 2024 between Lancaster University, the University ...

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Edinburgh Diamond

04. Library Success Stories

Edinburgh Diamond, part of the Edinburgh University Library, is a Diamond OA service provision wh...

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Platinum Open Access Funding (PLATO)

04. Library Success Stories

PLATO was a project undertaken by six Swiss universities and funded by swissuniversities, the umb...

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Open Institutional Publishing Association (OIPA)

04. Library Success Stories

OIPA was launched in 2023 as a network for small/medium university presses and university-affilia...

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Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP)

04. Library Success Stories

Lyrasis' OACIP provides a community-driven framework to evaluate and collectively fund Diamond Op...

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‘How Open Investing Will Transform Library Collections’ Demmy Verbeke & Curtis Brundy, Katina Magazine

04. Library Success Stories

This article, published in Katina Magazine in late 2024, provides a comprehensive overview of cur...

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Open Access Books Network (OABN)

03. Author Success Stories

"The OA Mythbusters’ series was launched for 2021 Open Access Week. Through this video series the...

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OAPEN OA Books Toolkit

03. Author Success Stories

"This collection of case studies features a group of authors who explain in their own words how o...

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Boydell & Brewer

03. Author Success Stories

"In Spring 2023 we launched Boydell & Brewer Open Access, to make it easy for readers to browse a...

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European Research Area (ERA)

02. Open Access Book Publishing: A Comp... Country-Specific Guides

The European Research Area (ERA) is the ambition to create a single, borderless market for resear...

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Organisations

02. Open Access Book Publishing: A Comp... Useful organisations, projects and plat...

AG Universitätsverlage (University Press Association) AG Universitätsverlage brings together p...

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Equity & Diversity

02. Open Access Book Publishing: A Comp... Standards: Accessibility, Equity, Diver...

C4DISC - A Focused Toolkit for Journal Editors and Publishers: Building Diversity, Equity, Incl...

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Accessibility

02. Open Access Book Publishing: A Comp... Standards: Accessibility, Equity, Diver...

Copim Open Book Futures is producing its own resource on Accessibility in OA books; this will be ...

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Thoth

02. Open Access Book Publishing: A Comp... Dissemination: Metadata, Archiving, Pla...

Thoth is a non-profit, open metadata management and dissemination platform whose recent whose suc...

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OPERAS Metrics

02. Open Access Book Publishing: A Comp... Dissemination: Metadata, Archiving, Pla...

OPERAS, referenced elsewhere on Copim Compass in different capacities, offers metrics about the u...

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DIAMAS Best Practices checklist for Diamond OA publishers

02. Open Access Book Publishing: A Comp... Dissemination: Metadata, Archiving, Pla...

This self-assessment checklist from the DIAMAS project is for publishers of Diamond OA books and ...

Updated 6 months ago by Anna Hughes