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Comments from current users of Opening the Future
Hear from staff at Central European University Press and Liverpool University Press, who have bot...
Financial & resource assumptions underpinning implementing Opening the Future
You can use OtF to convert a series of books to OA (on the frontlist), or it can be used to gra...
Further logistics and workflows
You will need to display information on what packages of backlist books you are offering, and w...
Why OA (for books), and why collective funding?
Traditional academic monograph sales are declining. The sector needs some kind of change in ord...
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
This section contains answers to the most frequently asked questions that we encountered in deplo...
Bibliography / further reading
Mithu Lucraft, “Open Access to academic books creates larger, more diverse and more equitable rea...
Renewals
When the current subscription has a few months left, you should get in touch with the library t...
Marketing
We recommend regularly (e.g. weekly) disseminating news on your platform and social media about...
Library consortia
Library consortia can offer extremely useful financial support, but their processes can be leng...
Outreach to acquisitions/collection librarians and using Worldcat data
Acquisition/collection librarians may wish to participate in OtF in order to enhance their coll...
Outreach to open access or scholarly communications librarians
OA/scholarly communications librarians may support this model as part of the broader effort to ...
Outreach to former and current authors
Where possible, ask your authors to undertake outreach to their own library about the model. ...
Delivering the closed Backlist & OA Frontlist content
Delivery of the closed backlist subscription content The final part of the membership workflow i...
Further considerations: licensing and archiving
Use CC licencing for the OtF-funded frontlist and a Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) to g...
Tax implications
While this resource cannot dispense and does not constitute formal accountancy or legal advice wi...
Membership scenario modelling
To access the modelling tool please click here 👉 Copim Opening the Future revenue projections m...
Contact details
Keep in touch! Email:Â info@openbookcollective.org We're also on social media. Find us at: Blue...
Executive summary
An important aspect of Open Book Collective's role is as an intermediary organisation that helps ...
Links
Website and platform, including the ability support all initiatives and packages, with full deta...
What Opening the Future is NOT, and the importance of working with libraries in good faith
This is not a transformative agreement which links institutional support of a Press to their ow...