Publishing OA books

Source acknowledgements

Published August 10 2020 | Revised November 19 2024

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:

Barnes, L. (2018, October 22). Green, gold, diamond, black – what does it all mean? [Open Book Publishers blog]. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0173.0089. Made available under a CC BY 4.0 licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Barnes, L. (2018, October 22). Open Book Publishers: Copyright and licensing – what do I need to know? [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/copyright-and-licensing-what-do-i-need-to-know/. Made available under a CC BY 4.0 licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Barnes, L. (2018, October 22). What should I ask a publisher about Open Access? [Open Book Publishers Blog]. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0173.0087. Made available under a CC BY 4.0 licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Brill. (n.d.). Visibility and marketing. Retrieved from brill.com: https://brill.com/page/oavisibility/visibility-and-marketing. Made available under Copyright Brill 2016-2020.

Collins, E., Ferwerda, E., Pinter, F., Niels, S. (2018). Summary: A landscape study on open access (OA) and monographs. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.815932. Made available under a CC BY 4.0 licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Collins, E., Milloy, C., & Stone, G. (2013). Guide to Creative Commons for Humanities and Social Science monograph authors. AHRC/Jisc Collections: London. Retrieved from http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/17828/. Made available under a CC BY licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Collins, E., Milloy, C. & Stone, G. (2015). Guide to open access monograph publishing for arts, humanities and social science researchers. AHRC/Jisc Collections: London. Retrieved from http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/25391/. Made available under a CC BY 4.0 licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Deville, J., Sondervan, J., Stone, G. and Wennström, S., 2019. Rebels with a Cause? Supporting Library and Academic-led Open Access Publishing. LIBER Quarterly, 29(1), 1–28. Retrieved from http://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10277. Made available under a CC BY 4.0 licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Digital Preservation Handbook, 2nd Edition, https://www.dpconline.org/handbook. Digital Preservation Coalition © 2015 licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Emery, J., Stone, G., & McCracken, P. (2020). Techniques for Electronic Resource Management: Terms and the Transition to Open. Chicago: American Library Association. Retrieved from doi.org/10.15760/lib-01. Made available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.

OASPA. (n.d.). Code of Conduct. https://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/. Made available under a CC BY 4.0 licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Open Book Publishers. (n.d.). Information for New Authors. Retrieved from openbookpublishers.com: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/section/6/1. Made available under a CC BY 4.0 licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Palgrave Macmillan. (2021). Guide to Open Access Books for Authors. Retrieved from https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/16216770/data/v4, with permission from the rights-holder.

Rubow, L., Shen, R., Schofield, B. and Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic. (2015). Understanding Open Access: When, Why, & How to Make Your Work Openly Accessible. Retrieved from authorsalliance.org https://authorsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/Documents/Guides/Authors%20Alliance%20-%20Understanding%20Open%20Access.pdf. Made available under a CC BY 4.0 licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Snijder, R. (2019). The deliverance of open access books. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Retrieved from http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25287. Made available under a CC BY 3.0 licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.

Springer Nature. (n.d.). Your publication journey– marketing your book. Retrieved from https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/your-publication-journey/marketing-your-book, with permission from the rights-holder.

Springer Nature. (2019). Copyright and licensing for open access books. Retrieved from https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/the-source/blog/blogposts-open-research/copyright-and-licensing-for-open-access-books/17458878, with permission from the rights-holder.

Springer Nature. (n.d.). FAQs: Complying with funder OA book policies. Retrieved from springernature.com: https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/funding/oa-policy-faqs-for-books-and-chapters, with permission from the rights-holder.

Stone, G., Gatti, R., van Gerven Oei, V. W. J., Arias, J., Steiner, T., & Ferwerda, E. (2020). WP5 Scoping Report: Building an Open Dissemination System (Version 1.0). Retrieved from http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3961564. Made available under a CC BY 4.0 licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Suber, P. (2004). A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access. Retrieved from legacy.earlham.edu: https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm. Made available under a CC BY 3.0 United States Licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.

University of California Press: Luminos. (n.d.). Author FAQs: Distribution & Marketing. Retrieved from luminosoa.org: https://www.luminosoa.org/site/faqs/#author-faqs-open-access. Made available under Copyright 2015 by The Regents of the University of California.