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Requirements Gathering
While auditing for legal minimum levels of accessibility can produce quantitative data about how ...
Communicating with Everyone - Accessibility Statements
UK, EU, and US legislation all require an accessibility statement to be published on the organisa...
Communicating during Procurement - VPATs
A VPAT stands for Voluntary Product Accessibility Template, and they are free templates provided ...
What have we done so far?
Held workshops and conversations with digital preservation experts Spoken to open a...
Executive summary
An important aspect of Open Book Collective's role is as an intermediary organisation that helps ...
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
This section contains answers to the most frequently asked questions that we encountered in deplo...
Marketing
We recommend regularly (e.g. weekly) disseminating news on your platform and social media about n...
Library consortia
Library consortia can offer extremely useful financial support, but their processes can be length...
Outreach to acquisitions/collection librarians and using Worldcat data
Acquisition/collection librarians may wish to participate in OtF in order to enhance their collec...
Outreach to open access or scholarly communications librarians
OA/scholarly communications librarians may support this model as part of the broader effort to sh...
Outreach to former and current authors
Where possible, ask your authors to undertake outreach to their own library about the model. Out...
Further considerations: licensing and archiving
Use CC licencing for the OtF-funded frontlist and a Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) to g...
Delivering the closed Backlist & OA Frontlist content
Delivery of the closed backlist subscription content The final part of the membership workflow i...
Further logistics and workflows
You will need to display information on what packages of backlist books you are offering, and w...
Organisational partnerships
Delivering a worldwide membership programme requires significant resources. You can make the proc...
Financial & resource assumptions underpinning implementing Opening the Future
You can use OtF to convert a series of books to OA (on the frontlist), or it can be used to gra...
Membership scenario modelling
To access the modelling tool please click here 👉 Copim Opening the Future revenue projections m...
Comments from current users of Opening the Future
Hear from staff at Central European University Press and Liverpool University Press, who have bot...
What Opening the Future is NOT, and the importance of working with libraries in good faith
This is not a transformative agreement which links institutional support of a Press to their ow...
What is Opening the Future?
It is a revenue model utilising a Press' closed backlist to fund the open access frontlist. T...