Question to guide good practice



As a minimum, are you making sure that you are making multiple copies safe in multiple locations?

Does your press have a plan in place to preserve long-term access to their publications?

Are you familiar with Open Access mandates, including those in the country in which you are based? What impact might new regulations have on your press?

Have you decided what metadata you will be recording for your books? Have you considered using specialist open metadata platforms such as Thoth Open Metadata?

How will your books be archived and preserved? How will you ensure the stability of the archive?

Which archive is most suitable for your content and in line with the values of your press?

Can you design a dissemination strategy for the outputs your press is publishing that takes into account the added benefit of ensuring your content is being archived and/or preserved?

Do you have appropriate software to meet the requirement of archiving format standardisation?