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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...

This online assessment tool, launched in 2024, enables self-assessment of financial models by funders, publishers and others about access to read, access to publish (with or without fee), reuse rights, fee transparency, and promoting open data and code, and pr...

Forum for Open’s Open Science Arabic-English Glossary This glossary contains descriptions of key terms regarding open science in Arabic. Currently, it mostly covers open access journals and open data, with no mention of books.   Visit the glossary IFL...

A Guide to Publishing Open Access Monographs, Books, Book Chapters and Long-form Outputs This guide has been designed by Lancaster University to provide an introduction to Open Access Book Publishing. Each section of the resource will introduce you to key t...

The toolkit is focused on building representation among peer reviewers and fostering equity in the actions of peer reviewers. It is also dedicated to building DEIA into core aspects of the wider editorial endeavor. While it has detailed, and in places, useful,...

This toolkit was developed by Information Power, commissioned by cOAlition S and ALPSP. It provides concise guidance, example licences and data templates for smaller publishers to use while negotiating agreements with libraries. It is journal-focussed, and the...

This toolkit aims to help book authors to better understand open access book publishing and to increase trust in open access books. Authors can find relevant articles on open access book publishing following the research lifecycle, by browsing frequently asked...

An online guide from Jisc supporting and giving guidance to new university presses and library-led publishing ventures. It is a trusted and valued resource. View the toolkit

This resource has also pointed to some other toolkits that could be interesting as a lot of them cover negotiating agreements from library POV. However, the authors do not personally feel qualified to assess this particular resource given it is a North America...

This document sets out how Copim implemented the Opening the Future (OtF) model, including the documentation of challenges, resources, timetables, and activities. It is intended as a roadmap for other presses that wish to implement an ‘Opening the Future’-esq...