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Glossaries
Forum for Open’s Open Science Arabic-English Glossary This glossary contains descriptions of k...
Platforms & services
ASK UP Rotating presses give first hand experience answers. Also an FAQ section and list of pr...
Contracts in Publishing
Contracts in Publishing: A toolkit for authors and publishers Is it focused on journals or boo...
UK Guidance
An introduction to UKRI’s fund for longform outputs This is a guide for UKRI-funded authors on...
Consider your options: explore the different funding streams for Diamond Open Access
This guide (an output from the DIAMAS project) lists different funding streams for Diamond OA pub...
An introduction to UKRI’s fund for longform outputs
This is a guide for UKRI-funded authors on how to use the UKRI research fund to make their longfo...
Markup languages that allow provision of accessibility features and tools
HTML Living Standard Hyper Text Markup Language is the ubiquitous web page Markup standard, with...
Reports on experimental scholarly book publishing
The Experimental Publishing Group have produced several reports on the landscape of experimental ...
Organisational partnerships
Delivering a worldwide membership programme requires significant resources. You can make the proc...
What have we done so far?
Held workshops and conversations with digital preservation experts Spoken to open a...
Contact details
We are very happy to hear from people! The more people we speak to working on similar topics or i...
What do we plan to do?
Create a toolkit, OER, and guidance documentation for OA publishers and authors Contin...
If you read nothing else, read this!
Benefits to the publisher Benefits to library investors (members) How to Launch OtF in 10 Eas...
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...