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Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs is an international partnership of researchers, universities, librarians, open access book publishers and infrastructure providers. It is building community-owned, open systems and infrastructures to enable open access book publishing to flourish

Copim Compass is a multifaceted resource designed primarily for book publishers who are publishing, or intend to publish, open access books. It draws into one place guidance for presses that are transitioning from closed to open, or for born-OA presses.

Formed in 2015, the Radical Open Access Collective is a community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects. Now consisting of more than 70 members, we promote a progressive vision for open publishing in the humanities and social sciences.

The European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) aims to strengthen the Diamond OA community in Europe by supporting European institutional, national and disciplinary capacity centres and Diamond publishers and service providers in their mission of performing Diamond OA scholarly publishing.

The EDCH will provide these Diamond stakeholders with coordination, sustainability, training modules, technical tools, and services at scale. The EDCH thus answers the need for capacity building in the Diamond OA community that was expressed in the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access.

There is an active national and global Library and scholarly community engaged in Open Publishing activity. In Ireland, the Library Association of Ireland’s Library Publishing Group and Irish Open Access Publishers promote this activity. Internationally, the IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest Group and Library Publishing Coalition are two of several agencies active in this space.

The Educopia Institute and the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC), in partnership with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), NASIG, and BlueSky to BluePrint, offer the “Library Publishing Curriculum,” a suite of synchronous and asynchronous professional development offerings for librarians that are open and free under a CC-BY license for anyone to offer or adapt.

The Library Publishing Group of the Library Association of Ireland (LAI) supports all types of library publishing initiatives across the sector.

A link to a recording of the recent LAI Library Publishing Group's webinar, Library Publishing Workflows with Brandon Locke from educopia can be found here.

The IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest Group was officially organized at the IFLA WLIC in Kuala Lumpur (2018), to advance the rapidly emerging, relatively new field of Library Publishing, which is part of a broader range of scholarly communication activities driven and managed by all types of libraries: national, state, academic, public and private.

The Library Publishing Forum is an annual conference bringing together representatives from libraries engaged in (or considering) publishing initiatives to define and address major questions and challenges; to identify and document collaborative opportunities; and to strengthen and promote this community of practice. The Forum includes representatives from a broad, international spectrum of academic library backgrounds, as well as groups that collaborate with libraries to publish scholarly works, including publishing vendors, university presses, and scholars. The Forum is sponsored by the Library Publishing Coalition, but you do not need to be a member of the LPC to attend.

Library Publishing Curriculum is the steward of the Library Publishing Curriculum, a suite of synchronous and asynchronous professional development offerings for librarians that are open and free under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license for anyone to offer or adapt.

The Library Publishing Coalition is an independent, community-led membership association of academic and research libraries and library consortia engaged in scholarly publishing.

The recently launched Diamas Project aims to deliver a Capacity Center for Open Access Diamond publishers to solve their main challenges.

More information can be found here.

European Diamond Capacity Hub is a deliverable of the DIAMAS Project.

It contains a collection of ten new resources specifically designed to support the sustainability of institutional publishing and to help Diamond institutional publishers, service providers and funders become more sustainable. The resources are a mixture of tools, templates, case studies, and reports that Diamond institutional publishers, service providers and funders can make use of to both advocate for, and to support the practical implementation of, Diamond OA.

The collection will continue to grow via the European Diamond Capacity Hub community; if you have any feedback or suggestions, please contact us at: toolsuite@diamas.org 

The Fully OA blog was born out of the OASPA Interest Group of Fully OA journal organizations. The purpose of the group is to provide a platform for exchange of ideas and, where appropriate, collaboration amongst publishers that only publish Open Access. The aim of the group is to provide unity, not by creating a single voice, but by bringing together a diversity of different voices and perspectives that share one commitment: full Open Access.

You can read more on their blog here

You can follow them on Twitter @fullyoa