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Our Auditing Tool - OARC
OARC The Open Accessibility Review Checker Our custom auditing tool has been developed by Ope...
Publish an accessibility statement
An accessibility statement is a publicly available statement that describes your organisational c...
Determine whether legislation applies to the press
In the EU, microenterprises with less than 10 employees and an annual turnover less than EUR 2 mi...
Short Term Accessibility - Start Here
Where do I get started with accessible eBooks? We can help. There are many things you are alread...
Renewals
When the current subscription has a few months left, you should get in touch with the librarian...
Accessibility statement for Copim Compass
This accessibility statement applies to all of compass.copim.ac.uk This website is run by the Op...
Communicating with Authors - Author Guidelines
If not already, including accessibility requirements within author submission guidelines is recom...
Communicating Internally Across the Press - Accessibility Policy
Having a documented policy about how you want the organisation to handle accessibility might be a...
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 ...
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...