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Librarian Responsibilities Accessibility applies to various aspects of libraries and there are several points in the process of providing content to users where accessibility issues might arise, including: static digital content files proprietary platform...

The current situation for academic librarians tasked with content acquisition is changing very fast, and has multiple drivers for this change. One is the widely reported higher education funding crisis, meaning that content and subscription budgets are a focus...

New Zealand does not have specific accessibility legislation, but it does have a government mandated standard that applies to the government’s own departments only. Wider legislation focuses on avoiding discrimination towards disabled people. Relevant Acts N...

WCAG 3 will be an updated version of WCAG, with no estimated release date, and a timeline of 'a few years', with some aspects requiring additional research that is still yet to be completed. WCAG 3 will retain the success criteria for WCAG 2, but will be struc...

Metadata We have summarised the most widely used metadata standards on our pages here: Standards - Metadata Here, we offer recommendations on how to approach accessibility metadata overall. <to follow> DAISY reports Ace SMART by DAISY is a recommended fre...

This accessibility statement applies to all of compass.copim.ac.uk This website is run by the Open Book Futures (OBF) project, an extension of the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project which is based in the UK, although...

Relevant Acts Denmark implements EU accessibility legislation through national laws and directives: Lov om tilgængelighedskrav for produkter og tjenester (Act on Accessibility Requirements for Products and Services) - the national implementation of the E...

This volume, put out in 2025 by the American Library Association, provides comprehensive and extensive guidance on how to launch, grow, and sustain library publishing programmes. It does this through detailed case studies and reflections from libraries who hav...

This short report, released in late 2025 by EIFL, outlines some of the emerging opportunities and issues arising from the growth of generative AI around editorial workflows, metadata, authorship, research integrity, copyright and others. It provides very brief...