Co-Action Publishing, Sweden, and Lund University Library have been awarded substantial funding from the Swedish Royal Library through its OpenAccess.se Program to create a Best Practices Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing. The project seeks to create a comprehensive, electronically available guide that addresses key issues for editors, researchers, librarians and university presses considering an Open Access publishing venture.
Information and experiences will be systematically collected and then presented in a format that allows others to apply the lessons learned. Inputs for the guide will be collected through interviews with editors and presses. Additionally, the guide will be informed by existing literature on specific areas of OA journals publishing and will take into account reports from relevant projects that have earlier received funding from the Swedish national OA Program and the Nordbib Program. In particular, the guide will build on the Nordbib-funded project, 'Aiding Scientific Journals Towards Open Access Publishing'.
While the final version of the Guide will be available by January 1, 2010, the project team plans to release a draft version in January 2009. This will allow editors, researchers, presses and others to provide comments and input.
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