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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 ...
Thoth
Thoth is a non-profit, open metadata management and dissemination platform whose recent whose suc...
OPERAS Metrics
OPERAS, referenced elsewhere on Copim Compass in different capacities, offers metrics about the u...
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 WP7 Report on Archiving and Preserving Open Access Monographs
A report on the Copim Project's knowledge and recommendation on archiving and preservation. It pr...
Toolkit to foster Open Access Agreements for Smaller Independent Publishers (cOAlition S)
The toolkit was developed by Information Power, working together with librarians, publishers and ...
Plan S: New tool to assess equity in scholarly communication models
This online assessment tool, launched in 2024, enables self-assessment of financial models by fun...
Open policy finder (Jisc)
'Open Access for Books' is a new addition to Jisc’s well established Sherpa toolsuite of resource...
Open Book Environment (OBE) Dashboard
Open Book Environment (OBE) Dashboard is a joint initiative from the Universities of Derby and Ve...
Cookbook for Open Access books
This book describes the experiences of setting up a community-based publisher, Language Science P...
Classifying open access business models
This opinion piece by Tasha Mellins-Cohen (founder at Mellins-Cohen Consulting and Executive Dire...
Business Models for Open Access Books
This collection of case studies was brought together by Lucy Barnes of Open Book Publishers and F...