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OBC Outreach Strategy blog: Building Effective Outreach Strategies for Open Access Book Initi...
Question to guide good practice
Who is your target audience? Have you defined and understood the specific audience you want t...
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Some examples of how different small and academic-led presses describe their marketing strategies...
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Developing a Marketing Strategy Marketing in the landscape of open access publishing faces seve...
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Archiving and preservation are not synonymous. ‘Archiving’ refers to the practice of placing file...
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JISC NUP Toolkit “Options for OA material preservation” Good, Better, Best report Digital Pre...
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As a minimum, are you making sure that you are making multiple copies safe in multiple location...
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At mediastudies.press, Portico and CLOCKSS are used for the preservation of PDF titles punctum...
Acknowledgements
The development of this guide was led by Izabella Penier and Joe Deville, with additional input f...
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There are a number of resources written with authors in mind that are nonetheless useful for pu...
Introduction: A guide of guides
Recent years have seen something of a flourishing Open Access presses, often being set up to serv...
Radical Open Access Collective
Radical Open Access Collective Information Portal. https://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/resou...
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Digital dissemination Helsinki University Press and Stockholm University Press: both use Ubi...
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Just because Open Access books are digital does not mean that they can necessarily be found. In t...
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The Thoth metadata manager is presently being used in production by a number of small/scholar...
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Metadata consists of descriptive information about a publisher’s book titles. This ranges from in...
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NUP Toolkit, Production Cookbook, Chapters 3.6, 3.7 Business Models for OA books ...
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punctum books undertakes almost all production and post-production in-house, but occasionally u...
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While the details of the production process may vary across publishers, the core stages are often...
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NUP Toolkit, Publishing Books Cookbook, chapter 3.2 Association of University Pres...