Introduction: A guide of guides

There already exist a number of richly detailed guides, reports, and resources that provide valuable insights about the practicalities of launching and running a small and/or academic-led press.

However, one of the challenges for Open Access presses, particularly if they are new, smaller or run by academics, is that the sheer amount of information already available can be overwhelming.

The aim of this resource, therefore, is to pull together some of the key insights that have already been compiled, whether in other toolkits or in in some of the wider sets of reports and resources that have been produced in recent years. The toolkit is theretherefore a kind of guide of guides.