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The European Research Area (ERA) is the ambition to create a single, borderless market for research, innovation and technology across the EU. Find out more on European Commission website. How to flip your journal: A guide to more equitable publishing with D...

From Permission to Publication: Managing Third Party Materials in Open Access Books (OABN & UoL webinar) This webinar, from late 2024, was given by the OABN and University of London Press and featured speakers on the subject of third party copyright, from t...

Copim Open Book Futures is producing its own resource on Accessibility in OA books; this will be launching later in 2025. Manchester University Press Alt Text Guidelines This resource provides clear guidelines for creating alt text for images in books in o...

"Authors from our African Studies and International Development lists, Odilile Ayodele, James B. Stewart, Kofi Anani and Aliou Ly, share their perspectives on open access (OA) in the Global South, discussing the value of OA for their research, the barriers the...

"In Spring 2023 we launched Boydell & Brewer Open Access, to make it easy for readers to browse all our freely available content. The site has continued to grow, adding more books and chapters in history, African studies and music. There are lots of reasons wh...

"This section gathers the author testimonies and case studies located throughout this resource into a single page. The first part of this section includes interviews with Lancaster University academics. The second part of this page includes interviews and case...

"This collection of case studies features a group of authors who explain in their own words how open access publication has benefited their work. The authors come from different disciplinary and geographical backgrounds and have published with a range of publi...

"The OA Mythbusters’ series was launched for 2021 Open Access Week. Through this video series the OABN community seeks to dispel a number of key myths around OA books. In these short videos, common statements are addressed by fellow community members, informal...

The University of Essex website provides a dedicated Q&A on OA publication section with authors reflecting on publishing open access. Visit the University of Essex website to learn more 

"Breaking down borders between academia and the rest of the world: A conversation with Tim Ingold and his co-authors." Visit the Scottish Universities Press website to learn more 

"Discover what some of our open access book authors and editors have to say about publishing an open access book with Springer Nature."  Visit the Springer Nature website to learn more 

"There are as many journeys to open access as there are researchers and books - below are the journeys of a few Oxford authors." Visit the University of Oxford website to learn more 

"In this series of case studies, researchers from the University of Sheffield explore their experiences of publishing an open access monograph." Visit the University of Sheffield website to learn more 

"UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) supports and champions open research because open research enhances the quality, collaboration and impact of research. UKRI commissioned Insights Media to develop case studies to help researchers learn from the experiences o...

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...