Looking back at how the COPIM project protected the privacy of our website users and rethought the typical technical model for gathering web analytics

Thoth Open Metadata (in short: Thoth) are looking to recruit a Metadata & Publisher Outreach Specialist to support our small team as part of the recently-launched Open Book Futures project, which is jointly funded by the Research England Development (RED) Fund, and Arcadia.

What infrastructures has COPIM built during its three+ years, how can publishers use these infrastructures now, and what are our plans for the future?

An up-to-date list of activities that team COPIM has been organizing and/or been invited to participate in as part of the Open Book Futures project.

Joe Deville explores the rationale underpinning Open Book Collective's approach to generating funds for publishing and supporting Open Access books, counterposing it to the dominant funding mechanism: Book Processing Charges, or 'BPCs'.

A combined guidebook and report now published, examining current archiving & preservation practice and providing guidance to the small or scholar-led open monograph publisher

As part of the documentation for the first book coming out of the Combinatorial Books Pilot Project, we are sharing some considerations around the archiving and preservation of experimental monographs

The catalogue prototype covered using an open-source computational publishing toolset

A conversation about the making of Performing Patents Otherwise.

As part of the documentation for the first book coming out of the Combinatorial Books Pilot Project, we are discussing our rationale for chosing a CC-BY licence for this project as well as the limitations and potentials of this licence regarding more collaborative scholarship

With keynotes delivered by Gabriela Méndez Cota, Paige Raibmon, and Winnie Soon; workshops led by Simon Worthington, Simon Bowie, An Mertens, and Z. Blace; and a roundtable discussion with COPIM's experimental publishing working group

As part of the documentation for the first book coming out of the Combinatorial Books Pilot Project, we are introducing and discussing the set of modular, open source writing, editing, annotating, and publishing software, tools, and platforms we have used

Announcement of the launch of Open Book Futures, a 3-year project funded by Arcadia and Research England Development (RED) Fund building on the pioneering work of COPIM.

Applying our technical model for computational publishing to building a publishers' catalogue for ScholarLed presses

Details of a technical model for computational book publishing using Jupyter Notebook and Quarto

Building on experiments with the Internet Archive platform to trial computer-assisted archiving of publishers' full back catalogues

A summary of the findings from our Thoth Archiving Network workshop, including an examination of challenges and barriers for institutional repositories wishing to join.

The second part of a two-part blog post. Part One explores why your institution should support collective funding for OA books, while this post highlights practical steps you can take to build a case to management for supporting collective OA book funding.

The first of a two-part blog post in which we lay out the problems with BPCs (Book Processing Charges) and disentangle the various alternatives; in Part Two we’ll give practical steps to convince budget holders to invest in collective models instead.

In the fourth blogpost documenting the first book coming out of the Combinatorial Books Pilot Project, we share conceptual and practical insights around the technical, editing, and publishing workflows we created for this pilot.

Our proposed workflow for creating, peer reviewing, and publishing Combinatorial Books

As part of the documentation for the first book coming out of the Combinatorial Books Pilot Project, we are introducing the manifold communities involved in making this book and we are sharing some insights on the forms of community engagement we have undertaken.

Toby Steiner, a member of Work Package 1, Work Package 6, and Outreach, is interviewed about his experience working remotely while building major pieces of infrastructure at the COPIM project over the last three years.

Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy, a member of Work Package 2 and Work Package 4, is interviewed about her experience working remotely while building major pieces of infrastructure at the COPIM project over the last three years.

Judith Fathallah, a member of Work Package 2 and Work Package 4, is interviewed about her experience working remotely while building major pieces of infrastructure at the COPIM project over the last three years.

Martin Paul Eve, a member of Work Package 3, is interviewed about his experience working remotely while building major pieces of infrastructure at the COPIM project over the last three years.

Simon Bowie, a member of Work Package 1 and Work Package 6, is interviewed about his experience working remotely while building major pieces of infrastructure at the COPIM project over the last three years.

Janneke Adema, a member of Work Package 1, Work Package 4, and Work Package 6, is interviewed about her experience working remotely while building major pieces of infrastructure at the COPIM project over the last three years.

Interviews with the COPIM team about their experiences of working remotely while building major pieces of infrastructure together over the last three years.

Spotlight interview with Joe Deville

Options for computer-assisted repository archiving for small and scholar-led presses publishing open access monographs

On August 19, 2022, Thoth met with its users to demo its GraphQL API in a workshop led by software engineer Javier Arias.

WP5 project updates about Thoth’s progress in developing its “Software as a Service” model toward long-term sustainability

Step-by-step guide for presses that wish to implement an ‘Opening the Future’ model now published

Initial approach to repository archiving for small and scholar-led presses publishing open access monographs

Two more books selected to be published OA, funded entirely by library members of OtF, taking the total published or in pipeline to nine

As part of COPIM's work package on experimental book publishing, we are investigating the emerging area of computational book publishing.

The OBC Governance model has been designed to put members in charge of the organisation and its operations.

A COPIM workshop in partnership with RLUK - video link and speaker slides

As part of the documentation for the first book coming out of the Combinatorial Books Pilot Project, we are reflecting on its application of collaborative re-writing as a form of re-use.

A series of co-written multi-media blogposts documenting and sharing experiences and findings from the process of creating an experimental book and the workflows to support it.

JSTOR has joined the Opening the Future program as a hosting partner for Open Access ebooks published by Central European University Press and Liverpool University Press.

Work Package 7 of the COPIM Project has released their Scoping Report, identifying and examining the key challenges associated with archiving and preserving open access monographs, particularly those published by small and scholar-led presses.

The Open Book Collective meets with US Librarians

COPIM partner announces first Open Access books funded entirely by library membership of Opening the Future revenue model

The Open Book Collective meets UK librarians

A call for consultation on the challenges of designing an open peer review workflow from the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group in collaboration with COPIM

Nine UC campuses have signed up through the California Digital Library (CDL) to Opening the Future

Marking the start of our outreach work

COPIM is pleased to launch our newly redesigned website

The Opening the Future team interviewed Annie Johnson at U of Delaware Library 

Fifth book funded by Opening the Future library membership programme

COPIM project partner CEU Press releases new book funded entirely by library membership programme

We had a Zoom chat with Lorraine Estelle, project director of COUNTER.

COPIM pilot partner CEU Press publishes third book funded entirely by Opening the Future programme

Opening the Future programme publishes 2nd OA book, with more in pipeline

A statement by the COPIM project addressing our stance towards the corporate acquisition of OA infrastructure, and the structures and safeguards we are putting in place to ensure that our infrastructure will remain community-owned and governed.

CEU Press today publish their first OA monograph - funded entirely by Opening the Future library members

An animated video explaining our collective funding model for OA monographs

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?