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Introduction

About the Toolkit

The OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit is a free-to-access resource that aims to help academic book authors to better understand open access book publishing, and to promote and increase trust in open access books. This toolkit may also be of use to stakeholders including publishers, universities, research funders and research institutions. To learn more about this toolkit feel free to have a look at some of the articles listed within this section

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Welcome to the OAPEN OA Books toolkit

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  • Our supporters
    We are grateful for the generous support for the toolkit we have received from the following organisations and we invite you to join them.
  • PALOMERA
    PALOMERA – Policy Alignment of Open Access Monographs in the European Research Area – is a two-year EU-funded project unifying 16 partners across Europe to investigate the current landscape of scholarly book publishing and in particular the bottlenecks in strategies and policies for their open access.
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FAQ

By selecting a frequently asked question on the FAQs page, you can find a short answer as well as navigate directly to articles that provide a more extensive answer to this question.

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Acknowledgements

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  • Acknowledgements
    We would like to thank the following individuals who have provided us with their knowledge, insights and support, resulting in the creation of this resource.
  • Source acknowledgements
    This source list acknowledges and includes external sources that are used throughout the toolkit. This list provides an overview of all the 'source acknowledgements' that have shaped individual articles and contributed to the creation of the final toolkit. We would like to express our gratitude and thanks and encourage anyone interested in learning more about open access books to take a closer look at any of the sources listed below:
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Testimonials and recordings

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