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This toolkit sets out how we implemented the Opening the Future model, including the documentation of challenges, resources, timetables, and activities, from initial set up to renewals. It is intended as a roadmap for other presses that wish to implement an ‘O...

The development of this guide was led by Kira Hopkins and Anna Hughes, with additional input from Tom Grady. The authors would like to thank the following individuals who contributed to the creation, reviewing and editing of this guide: Lucy Barnes, Simon Bowi...

This toolkit is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). Bookstack, the platform used to run the Toolkit, is used under an MIT license.

The guide was first published in February 2025. However, we recognise that publishing changes, Open Access changes. We therefore welcome any and all comments on the content included in the Copim Compass. Any observations can be sent directly to info@copim.ac....

The Open Book Collective hosts a number resources beyond Copim Compass, and rather duplicate content, we will provide links to these.  Visit the Open Book Collective’s Information Hub, a repository of important documents relating to the OBC such as the OBC Me...

This section includes reports on the current OA landscape in the UK and further afield. We acknowledge that as the Copim Open Book Futures is primarily a UK-based project, we are working with a highly UK and Anglophone-focussed perspective. So while we have e...

This section contains a variety of resources including reports and toolkits about the processes of OA publishing. It is divided into two sections: 'Born-OA' publishing, where the publisher has only ever published OA books/journals Transitioning to open, wh...

This section provides some standards, reporting, and service providers for OA book metadata and archiving. 

This section contains guidance on accessibility standards, and then on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDIB) guidelines within scholarly publishing.  Copim Open Book Futures Accessibility group is producing its own resource on Accessibility in OA...

This section provides resources on OA contracts and on copyright; both third-party copyright in OA book, and the copyright requirements of the UK funding body. 

This section includes organisations, projects and platforms / tools relevant to OA book publishing.

This section contains guidelines, reports and other resources, across a broad range of subjects, which pertain to specific geographic areas. These are roughly divided into the UK, the European Research Area (ERA), and the rest of the world. The compilers of t...

This section provides links to information about OA business models. These largely focus on the different types available, how they work, their pros and cons, and some other relevant information about funding such as UKRI's OA policy and implementation of OA b...

This section gathers together two broad types of informational resources. The first is two glossaries, providing definitions of OA terms and translations into other languages; the second is a range of, compendiums of information about OA, policy finders, and s...

This section signposts to other parts of the Copim Compass, as well as more general advice from OA publishers about the benefits of publishing books OA: Author Success Stories Library Success Stories Publisher Success Stories Please do get in touch if ...

This section contains toolkits already available which cover different aspects of open access. As such, they are thematically very varied. There is a lot of discussion about what actually constitutes a toolkit, its aim and purpose but for simplicity's sake, we...