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Key issues
The editorial process is at the heart of publishing. However well a publisher markets and dissemi...
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COPIM Revenue Models Report, Definitions Business Models for OA Books Elli Gerakopoul...
Membership programmes
Recent years have seen an increasing number of publishers launching membership programmes to prov...
Book sales
Amongst the guides, there is broad consensus that while book sales are likely to be an important ...
Book Processing Charges
Perhaps the most common way of funding Open Access publishing is for the publisher to charge a so...
Key issues
As Judith Fathallah describes in the Governing Scholar-Led OA Book Publishers report the quest...
Key issues
Having a legal form is not always necessary from day one – for example, punctum books grew organi...
Questions to guide good practice
What makes your press distinctive? Does your branding express your values and/or the interest...
Case studies
Language Science Press undertook a direct outreach campaign, as a way of generating support f...
Key issues
Many smaller or scholar-led publishers may have mixed feelings about engaging with questions of b...
Case studies
Ubiquity Press, an academic-led press and a publishing platform was launched in 2008 to suppo...
Revenue Models for Open Access Monographs
Izabella Penier, Martin Eve and Tom Grady (2020). COPIM: Revenue Models for Open Access Monograph...
OAPEN Toolkit
OAPEN (2023). OA Books Toolkit. https://oabooks-toolkit.org/ Short title: OAPEN Toolkit Thi...
Jisc Interviews
Janneke Adema (2017). Interview transcriptions: Changing Publishing Ecologies. A Landscape Study ...
Governing Scholar-Led OA Book Publishers
Judith Fathallah (2023). Governing Scholar-Led OA Book Publishers: Values, Practices, Barriers. C...
New University Press Toolkit
Jisc (2021). New University Press Toolkit. https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/new-university-press-too...
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NUP Toolkit, Dissemination Cookbook chapter 3.3 Open Book Publishers (no date). Dis...
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NUP Toolkit Graham Stone, Rupert Gatti, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Javier Arias, Tobias ...
Case studies
Some examples of how different small and academic-led presses describe their editorial process: ...
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Cookbook, Chapter 3.10 NUP Toolkit, Publishing books OAPEN Toolkit, Book contract and...