The OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit is a free-to-access resource that aims to help academic book authors to better understand open access book publishing, and to promote and increase trust in open access books. This toolkit may also be of use to stakeholders including publishers, universities, research funders and research institutions. To learn more about this toolkit feel free to have a look at some of the articles listed within this section
This toolkit is a free-to-access resource that aims to help academic book authors to better understand open access book publishing, and to promote and increase trust in open access books. This toolkit may also be of use to stakeholders including publishers, universities, research funders and research institutions.
The Open Access Books Toolkit is a global and multi-stakeholder initiative. The toolkit is hosted by OAPEN. A broad and diverse Editorial Advisory Board is involved in the development and maintenance of the toolkit, including authors, publishers, research support staff, funders and other key stakeholders.
The idea for this toolkit originated from a workshop session organised by Springer Nature and the University of Glasgow as part of the Researcher to Reader Conference in 2019. From there on, the idea of an open access books toolkit was further developed through a series of workshops for authors hosted at the universities of Oxford, Glasgow and Utrecht in collaboration with OAPEN and Springer Nature.
We are grateful for the generous support for the toolkit we have received from the following organisations and we invite you to join them.
PALOMERA – Policy Alignment of Open Access Monographs in the European Research Area – is a two-year EU-funded project unifying 16 partners across Europe to investigate the current landscape of scholarly book publishing and in particular the bottlenecks in strategies and policies for their open access.
The Open Access Books Toolkit is a global and multi-stakeholder initiative. The toolkit is hosted by OAPEN. A broad and diverse Editorial Advisory Board is involved in the development and maintenance of the toolkit, including authors, publishers, research support staff, funders and other key stakeholders.
We would like to thank the following individuals who have provided us with their knowledge, insights and support, resulting in the creation of this resource.
This source list acknowledges and includes external sources that are used throughout the toolkit. This list provides an overview of all the ‘source acknowledgements’ that have shaped individual articles and contributed to the creation of the final toolkit.
We would like to express our gratitude and thanks and encourage anyone interested in learning more about open access books to take a closer look at any of the sources listed below:
‘‘This toolkit provides clear information and guidance on the possibilities of publishing open access books….’’
A global group from academia and scholarly communications have prepared a book publishing guide to Open Access - an interview with Eelco Ferwerda (OAPEN).
October 22, 2020. Have a look at this recording introducting the OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit, a new, free resource.
Including a live Q&A and discussion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAVwsLAPj_w
Oct 4, 2020. The Open Access Books Network talking to Eelco Ferwerda (OAPEN) about the recently launched OA Books Toolkit. 1.10.2020.