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punctum books undertakes almost all production and post-production in-house, but occasionally uses freelancers (Business Models for OA Books). Language Science Press: In Section 3.7 of the Cookbook, Nordhoff provides an overview of technological solutions...
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Has a strategy been developed for managing the workflow? What generic and specialist tools will you use to support the process? How feasible is it to invest ( time, energy and resources) to implement tools to support the production process, both in terms of...
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NUP Toolkit, Production Cookbook, Chapters 3.6, 3.7 Business Models for OA books Mind the Gap Radical Open Active Collective, OA publishing tools John W. Maxwell, Erik Hanson, Leena Desai, Carmen Tiampo, Kim O'Donnell, Avvai Ketheeswaran,...
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Metadata consists of descriptive information about a publisher’s book titles. This ranges from information about the book or parts of the book (e.g. book title, chapter title, year of publication, subject classifications, ISBN, DOI) to information about the au...
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The Thoth metadata manager is presently being used in production by a number of small/scholar-led publishers, including African Minds, Mattering Press, mediastudies.press, meson press, Open Book Publishers, and punctum books White Horse Press current...
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Is metadata management built into the production workflow? Who is responsible for managing metadata? How will metadata be generated and managed? Have different metadata management platforms been assessed? If using a third party metadata manageme...
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NUP Toolkit Graham Stone, Rupert Gatti, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Javier Arias, Tobias Steiner, and Eelco Ferwerda (2021). WP5 Scoping Report: Building an Open Dissemination System. COPIM. https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.939caea Jisc and OAPEN (...
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Just because Open Access books are digital does not mean that they can necessarily be found. In the case of smaller and scholar-led presses, the intense work with authors on their manuscripts and the push to get texts through production can mean that issues of...
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Digital dissemination Helsinki University Press and Stockholm University Press: both use Ubiquity Press, as well as indexing all books in the Directory of Open Access Books. Helsinki University Press also uses JSTOR (Business Models for OA Books). La...
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NUP Toolkit, Dissemination Cookbook chapter 3.3 Open Book Publishers (no date). Distribution Guidelines. https://cdn.openbookpublishers.com/OBP_Distribution_guidelines_7c016f5eeb.pdf
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Are books indexed in an external catalogue – for example the Directory of Open Access Books? Has consideration been given to hosting books on a third party platform (e.g. Project Muse, Zenodo), potentially in addition to on the publisher's own website? ...
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The editorial process is at the heart of publishing. However well a publisher markets and disseminates its books, however well its books are designed, copy edited and typeset, it is likely to be the content of its books on which it will be ultimately judged. F...
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NUP Toolkit, Publishing Books Cookbook, chapter 3.2 Association of University Presses (2022). Best Practices for Peer Review. https://peerreview.up.hcommons.org Janneke Adema, Samuel Moore, Tobias Steiner (2021). 'Part 1: Interaction in Conte...
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Some examples of how different small and academic-led presses describe their editorial process: White Horse Press (source: direct correspondence) We have a proposal form to gather quite a lot of initial information, and a book stylesheet which is not downl...
Questions to guide good practice
Is the editorial process in line with the values of the press? Has full consideration been given to the range of peer review options? Have open peer review and community-based peer review been considered? Can authors choose between different models of peer ...
Radical Open Access Collective
Radical Open Access Collective Information Portal. https://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/resources/ Short title: Radical Open Access Collective The Radical Open Access Collective is a community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and othe...