In this post for International #OpenAccessWeek, we’re focusing on our collaboration with a range of Open Access (OA) organisations which we’ve been building over the last couple of years.
We have worked closely with Jisc on several projects, including participation in their ‘OA Myth-busting’ series of webinars on ‘Compliance vs. Culture’ in 2022 (a recording of which is available on our website). We have also had submissions accepted for both rounds of Jisc’s Open Access Community Framework funding scheme, a new initiative where libraries in UK higher education institutions can directly pledge to support open access publishing by smaller, non-profit publishers. We were delighted to reach our pledging target of 10 libraries in the first round of the scheme (read our article for more information) and our current submission for books on human rights and social justice is already over halfway to our target of 10 libraries. We are grateful for the support shown by UK libraries for our publishing programme through this scheme, and to Jisc for running this important funding model.
This is an exciting moment for open access publishing globally, particularly with the momentum behind diamond open access publishing. Several projects are currently running which we have been pleased to contribute to, including information-gathering sessions for both DIAMAS (Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication) and PALOMERA (Policy Alignment of Open Access Monographs in the European Research Area). These projects, and fantastic organisations like the Open Access Books Network, are a huge help to non-profit publishers grappling with open access, and we are pleased to be able to contribute to them.
We are grateful for the important work being done by COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) and its successor project, Open Book Futures, both funded by Research England and Arcadia. These projects focus on the infrastructures, workflows and collaborations needed to build a fairer, more sustainable future for OA books. We have participated in informal discussions around archiving and preservation for COPIM, and hope to play a more active role in some of the ongoing Open Book Futures projects including Thoth, a new open metadata system – we’ll share more news on this as our plans develop.
Finally, we are extremely proud to be a founder member of the new Open Institutional Publishing Association (OIPA) which we and a number of other smaller university-affiliated publishers have been developing over the last 18 months. This is a new network of UK institutional publishing operations – from small university presses to individual journals within libraries – working on open access publishing, and a forum for sharing resources, guidance, advice and information.
The University of London Press is supported by the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
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