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Recent years have seen something of a flourishing Open Access presses, often being set up to serve a particular scholarly community. Within the Open Book Collective, which has produced this toolkit as part of the COPIM project, we would like to see many more s...

The development of this guide was led by Izabella Penier and Joe Deville, with additional input from Francesca Corazza, Judith Fathallah, Miranda Barnes and Livy Snyder. The Toolkit uses Bookstack for its structure. Bookstack is Open Source software, in line ...

This toolkit is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). Bookstack, the platform used to run the Toolkit, is used under an MIT license.

Nordhoff, Sebastian (2018). Cookbook for Open Access Books. Berlin: Language Science Press. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1286925 Short title : Cookbook Nordhoff, Sebastian (2018). Language Science Press Business Model. Berlin: Language Science Press. h...

Jisc (2021). New University Press Toolkit. https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/new-university-press-toolkit Short title: NUP Toolkit  This toolkit provides guidance for running New University Presses with a special focus on launching a press, but it is also us...

Izabella Penier, Martin Eve and Tom Grady (2020). COPIM: Revenue Models for Open Access Monographs. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4455511 Short title: COPIM Revenue Models Report  COPIM’s report on revenue models provides smaller/scholar-led publishers ...

Lucy Barnes and François van Schalkwyk (2022). Business Models for Open Access Books. https://oabooksbusinessmodels.pubpub.org  Short title: Business Models for OA Books Business Models for OA Books is a second key resource on business models, and provid...

Judith Fathallah (2023). Governing Scholar-Led OA Book Publishers: Values, Practices, Barriers. Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs. COPIM. https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.e6fcb523 Short title: Governing Scholar-Led OA Book Publ...

Janneke Adema (2017). Interview transcriptions: Changing Publishing Ecologies. A Landscape Study of New University Presses and Academic-led Publishing. https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6652/ Short title: Jisc Interviews This is a key source for this Toolki...

OAPEN (2023). OA Books Toolkit. https://oabooks-toolkit.org/ Short title: OAPEN Toolkit This toolkit is aimed at authors more than publishers but nonetheless constitutes an important resource for publishers, including issues such as dispelling myths abou...

Among all the pressing demands associated with getting a new publisher going, a fully developed launch strategy may sometimes not be a top priority. However, if time allows, a fully thought through approach to getting up and running and presenting the work of ...

Ubiquity Press, an academic-led press and a publishing platform was launched in 2008 to support one small society-owned journal which could not find a sustainable provider to go online and flip to Open Access. Initially, they were focused on journals and u...

Have you identified an unmet need, a niche in a publishing environment that your press may fill? Are you participating in a project or community that has content, or could produce content, that could benefit from wider circulation? How does the 'start...

NUP Toolkit, Setting up a press Cookbook, Chapter 5 Business Models for OA Books

Many smaller or scholar-led publishers may have mixed feelings about engaging with questions of branding – in many ways, it may feel incompatible with scholarly ideals. Nonetheless, for these publishers, establishing a presence amongst the audiences and commun...

Language Science Press undertook a direct outreach campaign, as a way of generating support for the press. As Nordoff describes: “[o]ne of the current press directors (Stefan Müller) started emailing over 100 prominent linguists and asked them for their pr...

What makes your press distinctive? Does your branding express your values and/or the interests of your target audience? Have you considered whether using unconventional or experimental approaches to publishing might help communicate the distinctiveness ...

NUP Toolkit, Attracting authors to your press  Cookbook, Chapter 3.13 OAPEN Toolkit, Common myths about open access

Having a legal form is not always necessary from day one – for example, punctum books grew organically and only started to consider issues such as governance or legal form once its brand became established. However, for many presses becoming legally establishe...

Mattering Press: In the UK, Mattering Press chose to become a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). This was in part because becoming a charity was in line with the press’ values. But the particular appeal of the model was that it combined being a non-...