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A study of the costs incurred by US university presses in publishing scholarly monographs as part of the TOME pilot project. It is very focussed on US institutional publishing, with extremely high costs that do not necessarily map onto those in the UK and else...

The concluding report about the author experiences with the TOME project, and more general conclusions about how the groundwork with authors and universities would need to be built on by any subsequent projects. Read the report 

"At the University of London Press, we have been reflecting on recent conversations in the sector about research culture, what this means for the humanities, the potential benefits of open access, the role of publishing and our own role as a publisher."  Prof...

IOAP is an initiative founded by Irish libraries in 2021 to strengthen Diamond OA publishing in the region. It provides a community of practice primarily for library-based and institutional publishers, providing a forum for them to share knowledge and experien...

"TOME brings together scholars, universities, libraries, and presses in pursuit of a common goal—a sustainable open monograph ecosystem." Visit the TOME website to read the author testimonials 

In this section you can access additional blogposts, podcasts and videos in which authors and open access practitioners discuss and reflect on publishing open access.  In this episode of the Jisc podcast Research Talk, Dr. Joe Deville, senior lecturer at Lanc...

Appoint a person to co-ordinate accessibility, who could be a dedicated accessibility professional or someone who has a wider portfolio of work that includes accessibility too. However, it's also important to remember that some accessibility work will be compl...

Plan technical digital accessibility training and support the identified staff to develop skills.  Introductory Guidelines and Courses Accessible Books Consortium’s Accessible Publishing Best Practice Guidelines for Publishers Accessible Books Con...

Once relevant staff have been identified and trained, some organisational accessibility objectives can be devised through requirements gathering exercises. Any organisation should aim to meet legal minimum requirements, but it's possible to be exempt from that...

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, or employ an external audi...

Improving accessibility requires dedicated time and money, and a full consideration of where this can be diverted to accessibility goals will help with planning. It is likely that you will have some idea of how long book production tasks take, and how much ext...

Capturing the results of identifying objectives, auditing, and analysing resources might happen across a range of internal documentation that could include: an accessibility policy, updated author guidelines, the roadmaps and strategic plans created in Section...

We recommend that frontlist and backlist/remediation are considered separately, and that separate plans are also created for the website including the backend submission process.  Book files Frontlist / Born Accessible Book files Backlist / Remediation The ...

Publish accessibility statements and roadmaps on the organisation's website, and include VPATs and public policies if that is decided on. Accessibility Statements VPATs

Incorporate planned accessibility improvements into workflows and complete the plan.

Audit the accessibility and organisational knowledge at regular intervals within the plan to showcase improvements.

In this section, you can read testimonial from authors whose books were published open access, thanks to funding provided by Copim’s collective library funding model, “Opening the Future”. Peter Watson Peter Watson, Teaching Fellow at the University of Lee...

In October 2024, a collaborative online-session for publishers from East Africa was co-organised by the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), OAPEN, the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) and French research institutes in Africa, Les Afrique...

The ITI Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) is a free template that translates accessibility requirements and standards (e.g. in Section 508 and other legal frameworks) into actionable testing criteria for products and services. Users should test t...

Having a documented policy about how you want the organisation to handle accessibility might be a useful tool. If your press has more individuals involved, uses external partners more often or doesn't yet have a strong organisational buy in for accessibility, ...