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Trailblazers: an Open Access Monograph and Book Initiative for Early Career Researchers
Trailblazers is a joint initiative launched in 2024 between Lancaster University, the University ...
KOALA-AV
This is a German consortial, government-funded funding project (2023-2025 ongoing). It collaborat...
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS)
SCOSS is a consortium of organisations, founded in 2017, whose mission is to secure OA and open i...
Library Partnership Rating
The Library Partnership Rating is a collaborative and library-developed framework for librarians ...
SPARC Unbundling Profiles
This is a series of profiles written by SPARC, providing detailed case studies from a series of i...
Irish Open Access Publishers (IOAP)
IOAP is an initiative founded by Irish libraries in 2021 to strengthen Diamond OA publishing in t...
Edinburgh Diamond
Edinburgh Diamond, part of the Edinburgh University Library, is a Diamond OA service provision wh...
Platinum Open Access Funding (PLATO)
PLATO was a project undertaken by six Swiss universities and funded by swissuniversities, the umb...
Open Institutional Publishing Association (OIPA)
OIPA was launched in 2023 as a network for small/medium university presses and university-affilia...
Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP)
Lyrasis' OACIP provides a community-driven framework to evaluate and collectively fund Diamond Op...
‘How Open Investing Will Transform Library Collections’ Demmy Verbeke & Curtis Brundy, Katina Magazine
This article, published in Katina Magazine in late 2024, provides a comprehensive overview of cur...
Open Access Books Network (OABN)
"The OA Mythbusters’ series was launched for 2021 Open Access Week. Through this video series the...
OAPEN OA Books Toolkit
"This collection of case studies features a group of authors who explain in their own words how o...
Boydell & Brewer
"In Spring 2023 we launched Boydell & Brewer Open Access, to make it easy for readers to browse a...
European Research Area (ERA)
The European Research Area (ERA) is the ambition to create a single, borderless market for resear...
Equity & Diversity
C4DISC - A Focused Toolkit for Journal Editors and Publishers: Building Diversity, Equity, Incl...
Accessibility
Copim Open Book Futures is producing its own resource on Accessibility in OA books; this will be ...
Thoth
Thoth is a non-profit, open metadata management and dissemination platform whose recent whose suc...
OPERAS Metrics
OPERAS, referenced elsewhere on Copim Compass in different capacities, offers metrics about the u...
DIAMAS Best Practices checklist for Diamond OA publishers
This self-assessment checklist from the DIAMAS project is for publishers of Diamond OA books and ...