18 month full-time or part-time position. FTE Salary £24-35k (depending on experience).

An interview with our software developer Javier Arias, about our open dissemination system Thoth

A roundup of what the COPIM project has achieved in our second year

CEU Press OA monograph funding pilot hits another milestone

An informal Q&A with Demmy Verbeke, who is Head of Artes, a division of KU Leuven Libraries, and plays a central role in organising library services for the Arts and Humanities at KU Leuven.

Second COPIM publisher off to a flying start with their collective OA funding model

The recent agreement means that UK libraries can now easily sign up and pay for two packages of books on offer from LUP, through Jisc’s Licence Subscription Manager.

Central European University Press collective funding model, in collaboration with COPIM's Work Package 3, gaining momentum

Collective library funding model for OA monographs shortlisted for September prize

Highly-regarded UK university press launches library membership backlist subscription programme, to fund new OA books

This means that UK libraries can now easily sign up to, and pay for, the packages of books on offer from the Central European University (CEU) Press through the standard Jisc catalogue interface. 

COPIM partner reaches first OA monograph milestone funded solely by ‘Opening the Future’ members

Joe Deville, a lecturer at Lancaster University and co-founder of ScholarLed and Mattering Press, introduces a new report exploring the potential for collaboration in open access publishing. He also looks at the role of other more troubling forms of collaboration in the academy

Mapping the minimal metadata requirements for the interaction of open access (OA) presses with the scholarly communications supply chain.

Making software freely available for any publisher to adapt and use themselves

Member access to the programme’s backlist of books is available now via Project MUSE

A roundup of what the COPIM project has achieved in our first year

Having now completed 3 stakeholder workshops, an update on the latest thinking within Work Package 2, and what this implies for the development of a model or platform able to address the question 'how can open access book publishers better collaborate with scholarly libraries'

COPIM and OPERAS-P workshop for Croatia, Slovenia and Greece.

COPIM and OPERAS-P workshop for Nordic countries

COPIM and OPERAS-P workshop in Poland

Some thoughts on the challenges of publicising and integrating the work of all the COPIM work packages

Identifying the many OA revenue models in use today, in the context of today’s challenging publishing environment - from COVID-19 and budget cuts, to print sales, funder mandates, and research evaluation.

A COPIM Work Package 3 blog post on the final Redux 2020 webinar 'An Altered Landscape: The Impact of Covid-19 on University Presses' (Thursday 30 July)

COPIM, OPERAS-P and open-access.network workshop in Germany

Mapping the minimal metadata requirements for the interaction of open access (OA) presses with the scholarly communications supply chain.

A series of reports on the topics discussed at the COPIM Publishers Workshop in March 2020

Over two months since our kick-off meeting in Coventry, and nearly a quarter of the way through 2020: a COPIM project update

Based on our experience hosting the COPIM Publishers Workshop online on 16 March 2020, what are the do's and don't's of hosting an online workshop?