This OA Books Toolkit was developed by OAPEN and further expanded with the outputs of the PALOMERA project over the last year. It is aimed at promoting and supporting open access (OA) to academic books. It consists of short articles covering a wide range of topics relating to OA books, each including a list of sources referenced, further reading and links to definitions of key terms.
The toolkit has two main sections. One section is for researchers as authors of academic books, and is intended to help authors to better understand OA book publishing and to increase trust in OA books. The other section is aimed at policymakers and provides a resource to support policy development for OA books. Taken together, the articles should also be of interest to the wider range of stakeholders with an interest in OA books publishing and policy, for example libraries and publishers.
The OA Books Toolkit can be accessed here.
