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Toolkits
This section contains toolkits already available which cover different aspects of open access. As such, they are thematically very varied. There is a lot of discussion about what actually constitutes a toolkit, its aim and purpose but for simplicity's sake, we...
Executive summary
An important aspect of Open Book Collective's role is as an intermediary organisation that helps libraries invest in open access monograph publishers, contributing to their operations and the production of new open access publications through collective fundin...
Links
Website and platform, including the ability support all initiatives and packages, with full details of all publisher and service provider members. The Open Book Collective's toolkit for small and scholar-led publishers. The Open Book Collective's Info Hub.
Contact details
Keep in touch! Email: info@openbookcollective.org We're also on social media. Find us at: Bluesky: https://openbookcollective.bsky.social/Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@openbookcollect/
What have we done so far?
Held workshops and conversations with digital preservation experts Spoken to open access presses about their preservation practices and ambitions Spoken to digital preservation services about their offerings to smaller publishers Shar...
What do we plan to do?
Create a toolkit, OER, and guidance documentation for OA publishers and authors Continue to contact and speak to additional projects, presses, and preservation experts Investigate creating a useable tool (hopefully API based) to enable persiste...
Contact details
We are very happy to hear from people! The more people we speak to working on similar topics or in similar areas the better the guidance, tools etc. we can provide for the OA presses and authors. One of the many great things about the work we are doing is how ...
Delivering the closed Backlist & OA Frontlist content
Delivery of the closed backlist subscription content The final part of the membership workflow is the delivery of subscription content to participating libraries. This is a process that will be familiar to libraries via their ordinary subscriptions and other...
If you read nothing else, read this!
Benefits to the publisher Benefits to library investors (members) How to Launch OtF in 10 Easy Steps This toolkit is a step-by-step guide aimed at small to medium-sized scholarly publishers that have a backlist of ‘closed’ books, but who are interested ...
Experimental Publishing Compendium
The Experimental Publishing Compendium is a guide and reference for scholars, publishers, developers, librarians, and designers who want to challenge, push and redefine the shape, form and rationale of scholarly books. The compendium brings together tools, pra...
Reports on experimental scholarly book publishing
The Experimental Publishing Group have produced several reports on the landscape of experimental scholarly book publishing: Books Contain Multitudes: Exploring Experimental Publishing: https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.933fa904 Promoting and Nurturing Inte...
Pilot project documentation and seminars
The Experimental Publishing Group run experimental book pilot projects with authors and publishers to pioneer new ways of publishing scholarly work. The documentation of these pilot projects can be found on our section of the Open Book Futures PubPub site: htt...
Introduction: What will I find here?
In this section, you will find a myriad of resources to support OA book publishing ranging from blog posts to practical experiences. This includes toolkits, websites sign-posting to resources, directories and case studies. The resources are grouped in what w...
UK Guidance
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 longform works immediately available open access (mandatory since early 2024). It sets out the available funding ...
Organisations
AG Universitätsverlage (University Press Association) AG Universitätsverlage brings together publishers from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and South Tyrol; its aim is to support publishers in representing their interests externally and to promote the excha...
How to transition / flip to Open Access
Cookbook for Open Access books This book describes the experiences of setting up a community-based publisher, Language Science Press. It discusses the main principles of community-based publishing and gives a very granular breakdown of the different tasks. ...
Projects
Copim Open Book Futures Copim is a community of people, organisations, and infrastructures working towards equitable and sustainable open access for scholarly books. It takes a community-led and values-driven approach to these. It is also, from 2023-2026, a...
Platforms & services
ASK UP Rotating presses give first hand experience answers. Also an FAQ section and list of previously curated answers. We like the idea, unsure how widely used it is. Find out more Experimental Publishing Compendium A comprehensive online resource ...
Contracts in Publishing
Contracts in Publishing: A toolkit for authors and publishers Is it focused on journals or books? Does it matter? A comprehensive resource and not like anything else on the market (that we've been able to find). View the toolkit
Born Open Access
How to Start an Open Access Journal: 2024 Small Publisher Primer The Primer is a guide for those working with a scholarly society or institution to launch an OA journal in-house. It is a comprehensive resource for journals to flip to OA. Read the Primer ...
Rest of World
Around the World with the Open Access Books Network (OABN) A series of blog posts from the OABN which focus on OA books in a different country around the world, highlighting their regional experiences, problems and successes. This is an ongoing series that ...