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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 ...
Copim WP7 Report on Archiving and Preserving Open Access Monographs
A report on the Copim Project's knowledge and recommendation on archiving and preservation. It pr...
Toolkit to foster Open Access Agreements for Smaller Independent Publishers (cOAlition S)
The toolkit was developed by Information Power, working together with librarians, publishers and ...
Plan S: New tool to assess equity in scholarly communication models
This online assessment tool, launched in 2024, enables self-assessment of financial models by fun...
Open policy finder (Jisc)
'Open Access for Books' is a new addition to Jisc’s well established Sherpa toolsuite of resource...
Open Book Environment (OBE) Dashboard
Open Book Environment (OBE) Dashboard is a joint initiative from the Universities of Derby and Ve...
Cookbook for Open Access books
This book describes the experiences of setting up a community-based publisher, Language Science P...
Classifying open access business models
This opinion piece by Tasha Mellins-Cohen (founder at Mellins-Cohen Consulting and Executive Dire...
Business Models for Open Access Books
This collection of case studies was brought together by Lucy Barnes of Open Book Publishers and F...
Born Open Access
How to Start an Open Access Journal: 2024 Small Publisher Primer The Primer is a guide for tho...
Glossaries
Forum for Open’s Open Science Arabic-English Glossary This glossary contains descriptions of k...
Platforms & services
ASK UP Rotating presses give first hand experience answers. Also an FAQ section and list of pr...
Contracts in Publishing
Contracts in Publishing: A toolkit for authors and publishers Is it focused on journals or boo...
UK Guidance
An introduction to UKRI’s fund for longform outputs This is a guide for UKRI-funded authors on...
Consider your options: explore the different funding streams for Diamond Open Access
This guide (an output from the DIAMAS project) lists different funding streams for Diamond OA pub...
An introduction to UKRI’s fund for longform outputs
This is a guide for UKRI-funded authors on how to use the UKRI research fund to make their longfo...
Reports on experimental scholarly book publishing
The Experimental Publishing Group have produced several reports on the landscape of experimental ...
Bibliography / further reading
Mithu Lucraft, “Open Access to academic books creates larger, more diverse and more equitable rea...
Tax implications
While this resource cannot dispense and does not constitute formal accountancy or legal advice wi...