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A community working to build a fairer, more open future for scholarly books
Welcome to the Copim community
Copim is a community of people and organisations who collaborate on community-led and values-driven initiatives, which help to support open access authors, publishers and readers. Initially formed around the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs [COPIM] project (2019–2023), the Copim community continues to grow and develop through its work on the Open Book Futures project (2023–2026) and its wider activities. Learn more about the Copim community using the links below, and scroll down to read our most recent publications.
Our most recent posts
Published: Nov 20, 2024
Reflections on the first four meetings of the National Libraries Network and future directions
SM
Published: Nov 20, 2024
In this post, we explain the concept of 'scaling small', why it is powerful, and how it has been implemented in Copim's work.
RK
Published: Nov 08, 2024
How to capture the technical, social, and affective dimensions of publishing infrastructures? Introducing and situating the documentation strategy for the 'Servpub' experimental book pilot project
KH
Published: Oct 28, 2024
Some thoughts on progress and challenges for Opening the Future, by the half-way point of the Copim OBF project, October 2024
Published: Oct 25, 2024
For Open Access Week 2024, members of Team Copim talk about their work and what 'Community over commercialisation' means to them.
KH
LB
JF
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Published: Oct 22, 2024
In this post, we outline what community-led means to us in theory and in practice, how it can be identified in organisations, and some of our concerns about the co-option of the term.
Published: Oct 22, 2024
In this post we provide recordings and slides from our hybrid event on 19 September 2024, offer a summary of the presentations, and answer some audience questions
LB
Published: Oct 21, 2024
An introduction to a set of interviews with several of the Copim team, about their work and how it relates to this year's Open Access Week theme: 'Community over commercialisation'.
Published: Oct 21, 2024
For Open Access Week 2024, members of Team Copim talk about their work and what 'Community over commercialisation' means to them.
Published: Oct 21, 2024
For Open Access Week 2024, members of Team Copim talk about their work and what 'Community over commercialisation' means to them.
Published: Oct 21, 2024
For Open Access Week 2024, members of Team Copim talk about their work and what 'Community over commercialisation' means to them.
CC
Published: Oct 01, 2024
View recordings and slides from our 'update and showcase' webinar on 25 September 2024, 15:00-17:00 (BST)
LB
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Published: Sep 30, 2024
Some thoughts from the Copim Open Book Futures team on Research England's decision not to include an OA mandate for monographs submitted to the next REF
AH
KH
Published: Sep 26, 2024
‘Not another knowledge base / toolkit / resource bank’ we hear the community say ….
JM
Published: Sep 24, 2024
In this first discussion session for the Deep Maps: Blue Humanities project, we discuss writing and publishing with Markdown and fragmentary texts
GC
Published: Sep 20, 2024
Part of a short series of posts regarding some of the challenges that exist for small publishers of open access monographs, this post considers advantages and disadvantages in existing pathways to preservation.
GC
Published: Sep 20, 2024
Part of a short series of posts regarding some of the challenges that exist for small publishers of open access monographs, this post considers the challenges of metadata in archiving.
GC
Published: Sep 20, 2024
Part of a short series of posts regarding some of the challenges that exist for small publishers of open access monographs, this post considers the phenomena of link rot and reference rot.
AH
LB
KH
Published: Sep 06, 2024
The latest of our blog posts on the theme of ‘How can I persuade my institution to support collective funding for open access books?’
LB
Published: Aug 09, 2024
The Copim team respond to news of a new iteration of PubPub—PubPub Platform—and its associated hosting fee; comment on the benefits and challenges involved in self-hosted versions; and reflect on the importance of community governance for open infrastructures.
Published: Aug 08, 2024
Join us online on 25 September 2024, 15:00-17:00 (BST) to learn more about what we've been working on!
Published: Aug 07, 2024
An invitation to join us at 17:00 (BST) on 19 Sept, at the London School of Economics or online.
