Questions to guide good practice

• What are the elements, resources and actors involved in your governance structure?

• What is the most appropriate legal form for your location, aims and values?

• How does your press governance structure safeguard its future? 

• Does the scholarly community (associations, universities, faculties, boards of academics/librarians, other friendly OA publishers) have a say in how the press is governed and run? 

• Is there a Diversity Equality and Inclusion (DEI) policy on the publisher's website? Is diversity evidenced in the press' work, for example in its authors, editors and reviewers?
  

• Does the publisher regularly report on its finances? Is there transparency about the publisher's costs per title/first copy costs)?

• Do financial and annual reports detail how resources, including public funds, have been used?