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'Read the testimonials below to hear from some of our authors, and from journals who have commented on our work as a press. You can also find reviews and testimonials for individual books on their home page via the catalogue.' Visit the Open Book Publishers t...

Bloomsbury Academic began as an OA book publisher in 2008. Their Open Access at Bloomsbury webpage includes information about: How to publish your book open access with Bloomsbury ('gold OA') Community engagement Open access partnerships Open access: a g...

University of London Press have developed a new online training course on open access publishing with the School of Advanced Study. The course is free and available via the School’s RESHAPED platform – a new training and research community space for researcher...

punctum books is an independent, scholar-led, non-profit, open access publisher. It was founded in 2011, and was also an early adopter of library memberships (in 2018) to support author equity. They publish in all subjects across AHSS, and support authors taki...

Berlin University Publishing | Should I publish my book open access? Berlin Universities Press share the benefits of publishing a book open access. Bristol University Press | Why publish open access?‬  Bristol University Press share the benefits of publishi...

The ScholarLed consortium is made up of scholar-led, not-for-profit, open access publishers. It was founded in 2018 and sought ways for small-scale, scholar-led presses to grow and flourish together, by finding co-operative systems and practices to work togeth...

This report maps scholarly publishing on the island of Ireland. It documents publishers on the island and assesses the readiness of Irish scholarly publishers to transition to open access publishing. It also examines their knowledge of the practices, needs, ch...

This criteria catalogue and the accompanying assessment questions were developed by a working group of KEMÖ (Kooperation E-Medien Österreich, the Austrian Academic Library Consortium). They are intended to support research institutions and organisations in the...

Once you have completed the short-term accessibility tasks and are ready to think more fully about accessibility in the long term, we have extensive guidance to help you. The infographic below shows how we have structured this.

The 10 Step Open Accessibility Planning Tool Our custom planning tool has been developed by Open Book Futures to help small presses achieve accessibility across their organisation. It consists of 10 steps organised into 4 sections A-D. For each step, we...

The following are a curated list of available planning models or frameworks for achieving accessibility at an organisation through self assessment - there are currently 3 of these, with a short description of their structure. There is also a charter which we h...

OARC The Open Accessibility Review Checker Our custom auditing tool has been developed by Open Book Futures to help small presses audit their static eBook files for accessibility. There are 40 points on the checklist, split into 5 sections: Text Features, ...

This page explains how to audit the current accessibility of all aspects of the organisation, including the frontlist and backlist book files, the website functionality and the backend submission platform. You could complete this yourself using self auditing, ...

WebAIM's WCAG 2 Checklist Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Deque Accessibility Developer's Guide W3C Easy Checks UK Government: Basic accessibility check Web Content Accessibility Guidelines - Quick Reference Web Cont...

The following are a curated list of available guidance documents and knowledge bases for accessible publishing. They are details of established best practice that serve as introductions to accessible publishing, authored by key organisations within the more ge...

The following are a curated list of available free courses and training materials on digital accessibility. We have excluded other courses that have a fee, and more technical ones based on web development. Accessibility Fundamentals Overview - W3C          ...

Relevant Acts Equality Act 2010 is the legislation that states both public and private bodies cannot discriminate against those with a disability. It’s more rigorous for the public sector and there are increased reporting requirements. It doesn’t mention digi...

Relevant Acts The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is the legislation that states some products and services need to be accessible to those with disabilities. It includes a wide range of devices and online based digital products and services including e-reade...

Relevant Acts Ireland is subject to the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and the EU Web Accessibility Directive and this has been implemented into Irish law through the European Union (Accessibility Requirements of Products and Services) Regulations 2023, usu...

Relevant Acts The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the legislation that states both ‘state and local government entities’ (Title II) and private/business entities that are open to the public (Title III) cannot discriminate against those with a disabil...