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Outreach to acquisitions/collection librarians and using Worldcat data
Acquisition/collection librarians may wish to participate in OtF in order to enhance their collections in a cost-efficient way (while also supporting open access). One of the core goals of the Opening the Future model is to shift from a bifurcated environmen...
Library consortia
Library consortia can offer extremely useful financial support, but their processes can be lengthy and complex. You should seek out consortia whose members may already publish (extensively) with you to demonstrate the value of investment. Approaching libra...
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
This section contains answers to the most frequently asked questions that we encountered in deploying Opening the Future. These FAQs can be used in response to queries about the model or simply to answer these questions if you have them yourself. The numbers i...
Bibliography / further reading
Mithu Lucraft, “Open Access to academic books creates larger, more diverse and more equitable readerships,” LSE Impact Blog (blog), March 3, 2021, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2021/03/03/open-access-to-academic-books-creates-larger-more-diver...
Reports on the Open Access landscape
This section includes reports on the current OA landscape in the UK and further afield. We acknowledge that as the Copim Open Book Futures is primarily a UK-based project, we are working with a highly UK and Anglophone-focussed perspective. So while we have e...
Publishing Open Access
This section contains a variety of resources including reports and toolkits about the processes of OA publishing. It is divided into two sections: 'Born-OA' publishing, where the publisher has only ever published OA books/journals Transitioning to open, wh...
Dissemination: Metadata, Archiving, Platforms
This section provides some standards, reporting, and service providers for OA book metadata and archiving.
Navigate the Copim Compass
There are different ways to navigate the Copim Compass. It is divided into sections - or 'Books' as it is termed in the Compass - which are ordered numerically. You can browse all the books via the Copim Compass homepage, which you can also access by clicking ...
Standards: Accessibility, Equity, Diversity
This section contains guidance on accessibility standards, and then on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDIB) guidelines within scholarly publishing. Copim Open Book Futures Accessibility group is producing its own resource on Accessibility in OA...
Legalities: Contracts and Copyright
This section provides resources on OA contracts and on copyright; both third-party copyright in OA book, and the copyright requirements of the UK funding body.
Executive summary
An important aspect of Open Book Collective's role is as an intermediary organisation that helps libraries invest in open access monograph publishers, contributing to their operations and the production of new open access publications through collective fundin...
Useful organisations, projects and platforms
This section includes organisations, projects and platforms / tools relevant to OA book publishing.
Links
Website and platform, including the ability support all initiatives and packages, with full details of all publisher and service provider members. The Open Book Collective's toolkit for small and scholar-led publishers. The Open Book Collective's Info Hub.
Country-Specific Guides
This section contains guidelines, reports and other resources, across a broad range of subjects, which pertain to specific geographic areas. These are roughly divided into the UK, the European Research Area (ERA), and the rest of the world. The compilers of t...
Contact details
Keep in touch! Email: info@openbookcollective.org We're also on social media. Find us at: Bluesky: https://openbookcollective.bsky.social/Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@openbookcollect/
Business models
This section provides links to information about OA business models. These largely focus on the different types available, how they work, their pros and cons, and some other relevant information about funding such as UKRI's OA policy and implementation of OA b...
What have we done so far?
Held workshops and conversations with digital preservation experts Spoken to open access presses about their preservation practices and ambitions Spoken to digital preservation services about their offerings to smaller publishers Shar...
Glossaries and Knowledge Bases
This section gathers together two broad types of informational resources. The first is two glossaries, providing definitions of OA terms and translations into other languages; the second is a range of, compendiums of information about OA, policy finders, and s...
What do we plan to do?
Create a toolkit, OER, and guidance documentation for OA publishers and authors Continue to contact and speak to additional projects, presses, and preservation experts Investigate creating a useable tool (hopefully API based) to enable persiste...
Testimonies and Case Studies
This section signposts to other parts of the Copim Compass, as well as more general advice from OA publishers about the benefits of publishing books OA: Author Success Stories Library Success Stories Publisher Success Stories Please do get in touch if ...