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Legalities: Contracts and Copyright
This section provides resources on OA contracts and on copyright; both third-party copyright in OA book, and the copyright requirements of the UK funding body.
Useful organisations, projects and platforms
This section includes organisations, projects and platforms / tools relevant to OA book publishing.
Country-Specific Guides
This section contains guidelines, reports and other resources, across a broad range of subjects, which pertain to specific geographic areas. These are roughly divided into the UK, the European Research Area (ERA), and the rest of the world. The compilers of t...
Business models
This section provides links to information about OA business models. These largely focus on the different types available, how they work, their pros and cons, and some other relevant information about funding such as UKRI's OA policy and implementation of OA b...
Glossaries and Knowledge Bases
This section gathers together two broad types of informational resources. The first is two glossaries, providing definitions of OA terms and translations into other languages; the second is a range of, compendiums of information about OA, policy finders, and s...
Testimonies and Case Studies
This section signposts to other parts of the Copim Compass, as well as more general advice from OA publishers about the benefits of publishing books OA: Author Success Stories Library Success Stories Publisher Success Stories Please do get in touch if ...
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...
A Preparation
B Analysis and Auditing
C Implementation
D Improvements and Benchmarking
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...
The Principles
Access has not been fully provided to a research output unless it is Accessible. Accessible means the research output is perceivable, operable, understandable and robust. Scholarly communications professionals should seek to remove all barriers to ac...
Digital Content Standards
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards are the most commonly used standards that are mandated in many countries’ legal requirements. They are all based on 4 design principles: Perceivable - you ...
Digital Document Standards
Accessible EPUBs EPUB Accessibility 1.1 addresses two key needs in the EPUB® ecosystem: evaluation and certification of accessible EPUB Publications; discovery of the accessible qualities of EPUB Publications. This specification sets formal req...
Metadata Standards that include accessibility tags
There are two ways that metadata accompanies a publication. In the first are digital publication formats that directly embed accessibility metadata (EPUB and PDF). In the second are external metadata record formats (ONIX and MARC) that accompany a digital publ...
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 HTML Living Standard being the current version beyond HTML5 that is now constantly updated, although HTML5 is used interchangeably with this. It was originally de...
Automated Testing
There are many proprietary and open source tools available to audit accessibility using automated testing. Below we have collated our top picks for open source tools, however many publishers may have budget to purchase a tool to do this, therefore, we have inc...
Manual Checking
Checklist for manual checking You can download this checklist, produced by us, in a spreadsheet format with additional richer information, including an indication of the complexity of each task, from here: The Open Book Futures Accessibility Tools EPubs and ...
Assistive Technology Tests
We recommend running at least a sample of eBooks through assistive technology in order to double check that everything works OK, and best if this is a range of the most commonly used tools that fulfill a range of functions. The minimum checks you complete shou...
End user testing from print disabled people
While not common for small presses, and likely this is beyond available capacity, best practice would be to approach end users with disabilities to test a sample of book files, web pages and submission systems. Below is some advice on finding user testing oppo...