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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...

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 ...

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 ...

Trailblazers is a joint initiative launched in 2024 between Lancaster University, the University of Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, and the University of Salford (joined by Liverpool John Moores University, University of Reading and University of Wolver...

The White Rose University Consortium is a strategic partnership between the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York founded in 1997.  It works to provide collaborative benefits across all three institutions, including research, seed funding and scholarship...

This is a German consortial, government-funded funding project (2023-2025 ongoing). It collaboratively funds Diamond OA journals in Germany by creating a consortial library funding model. Currently it provides funds to a number of journals mostly in STEM field...

PLATO was a project undertaken by six Swiss universities and funded by swissuniversities, the umbrella organisation of universities in Switzerland. It began by doing a landscape study of Diamond OA in Switzerland, and also aimed to develop a sustainable fundin...

SCOSS is a consortium of organisations, founded in 2017, whose mission is to secure OA and open infrastructure financially by providing funding to non-commercial services on which open access and open science depend. So far, it has provided c. $6.5m to fund o...

Edinburgh Diamond, part of the Edinburgh University Library, is a Diamond OA service provision which supports the publication of both books and journals by academic, staff and students at the University of Edinburgh. It began in 2009 but relaunched and grew no...

This article, published in Katina Magazine in late 2024, provides a comprehensive overview of current library perspectives on, and turning points in, library investment in open access and open infrastructure. It provides a brief history of this investment, an ...

Lyrasis' OACIP provides a community-driven framework to evaluate and collectively fund Diamond Open Access journals.  It accepts journals (based on a set of principles listed on the website) to its catalogue and then tries to match them to funders, often libr...

The Library Partnership Rating is a collaborative and library-developed framework for librarians who seek to quantify the alignment of publishers with themselves as they consider investing library resources. It was first developed by Rachel Caldwell at the Uni...

This is a series of profiles written by SPARC, providing detailed case studies from a series of institutions in the US and Canada who unbundled from Big Five publishing deals (in particular Elsevier and Wiley). The case studies seek to provide useful informat...

OIPA was launched in 2023 as a network for small/medium university presses and university-affiliated and library-based publishing initiatives. The majority of its members are either entirely or largely Diamond OA. Its mission is to share experiences and exist...

This was a presentation by Bethany Logan, Associate Director of the University of Sussex, given at a Jisc-hosted workshop on evaluating collective funding models for OA books. In it, she outlined the approach that had been taken by the library at Sussex when b...

This opinion piece by Tasha Mellins-Cohen (founder at Mellins-Cohen Consulting and Executive Director at COUNTER Metrics) is an article offering a comprehensive classification system for OA models, categorising them into five core types, each with distinct cha...

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. The discussion of the different t...

This collection of case studies was brought together by Lucy Barnes of Open Book Publishers and François van Schalkwyk of African Minds.  It showcases the business models of a range of open access (OA) academic book presses, and is intended to document the di...

This guide (an output from the DIAMAS project) lists different funding streams for Diamond OA publishing and service provision. It also appears as part of the toolsuite of sustainability resources on the European Diamond Capacity Hub (ECDH). While it is mostl...

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 limits for BPCs, CPCs and for OA subscription funds. It...