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Lancaster University
Lesson 7/10 from A Guide to Publishing Open Access Monographs, Books, Book Chapters and Long-Form...
If you read nothing else, read this!
Benefits to the publisher Benefits to library investors (members) How to Launch OtF in 10 Eas...
Legislation - China
China Legislative Acts The Law of the People's Republic of China on the Construction of Barrier...
Legislation - India
India Legislative Acts The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act (the RPWD Act or RPD Act) st...
What do we plan to do?
Create a toolkit, OER, and guidance documentation for OA publishers and authors Contin...
What have we done so far?
Held workshops and conversations with digital preservation experts Spoken to open a...
Organisational partnerships
Delivering a worldwide membership programme requires significant resources. You can make the proc...
Guidance
The following are a curated list of available guidance documents and knowledge bases for accessib...
Communicating with Readers - Metadata and DAISY Reports
Metadata We have summarised the most widely used metadata standards on our pages here: Standards...
Standards - Metadata
There are two ways that metadata accompanies a publication. In the first are digital publication ...
Legislation - France
Relevant acts France, as an EU Member State, has transposed the European Accessibility Act (EAA)...
Legislation - Denmark
Relevant Acts Denmark implements EU accessibility legislation through national laws and directiv...
Legislation - Canada
Relevant Acts The Accessible Canada Act is the country wide legislation that applies to the fede...
University of Essex
The University of Essex website provides a dedicated Q&A on OA publication section with Essex aut...
Generative AI in Diamond Open Access Publishing (EIFL)
This short report, released in late 2025 by EIFL, outlines some of the emerging opportunities and...
Library Publishing: How to Launch, Enhance, and Sustain Your Program (ALA)
This volume, put out in 2025 by the American Library Association, provides comprehensive and exte...
Why OA (for books), and why collective funding?
Traditional academic monograph sales are declining. The sector needs some kind of change in ord...
Legislation - EU
Relevant Acts The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is the legislation that states some products ...
Standards - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3
WCAG 3 will be an updated version of WCAG, with no estimated release date, and a timeline of 'a f...
Standards - Specialised Mark Up Languages
DocBook DocBook is a markup language for publishing computing and other technical complex scient...