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A Guide to Publishing Open Access Monographs, Books, Book Chapters and Long-form Outputs This ...
Stories of Open
The oral history project Stories of Open undertaken by Emily Ford in 2020 aimed to capture, in de...
A very simple open archiving strategy for a small publisher
Create an information pack for authors - help them to identify the material most critical for a...
Developing an Archiving Strategy: Archiving outbound links?
As part of the OBF project the Garth Stewart at the Digital Preservation Coalition undertook a re...
Archiving and Preservation Outputs from the COPIM/OBF projects
The Archiving and Preservation work packages with the COPIM and Open Book Futures project have...
eThesis Archiving Report
Detials to follow ....
Preserving e-Thesis Resources Pack
The Preserving e-Theses Resources Pack, developed by the Digital Preservation Coalition in partne...
Introduction
The OBF Project recognised that the archving and preservation of eThesis was as areas of signific...
Developing an Archiving Strategy: Where to Archive content?
As part of the work undertaken within the OBF project we have identified many alternative archivi...
Developing an Archiving Strategy: What metadata to archive?
Metadata is critical for the discovery and effective dissemination of books. Just putting somethi...
Developing an Archiving Strategy: What formats to archive?
Archiving something is clearly better than not archiving at all, so a starting point is to archiv...
Developing an Archiving Strategy: What content to archive?
It seems unlikely that it is either necessary or feasible to archive every aspect of a publicatio...
Developing an Archiving Strategy: Why archive?
The first question for a publisher (or author) to address in developing an archiving strategy is:...
Copim Open Archiving Criteria
Copim Open Archiving Criteria for Open Access Publications Eight criteria are identified for the ...
About Us, More Support and FAQs
About Us The Open Book Futures project is co-funded by Arcadia and Research England Development ...
What is a ‘simple’ ebook?
Defining an ebook is not easy - and indeed an important part of the COPIM and OBF projects has be...
Introduction
This toolkit is intended to provide an overview and guidance for the archiving and preservation o...
Executive summary
An important aspect of Open Book Collective's role is as an intermediary organisation that helps ...
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...