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A community working to build a fairer, more open future for scholarly books
Welcome to the Copim community hub
On this site you can learn more about us, our working groups and the research projects that have brought us together. This site provides discoverable and reusable insight into the development of community-owned infrastructure for the publication of open access books. You can read our latest reports, posts and other documents below.
2023-Q4
Published: Nov 09, 2023
An up-to-date list of publications and outputs from the Copim community, prepared as part of the Open Book Futures project.
LB
Published: Oct 24, 2023
Setting out the relationship between Copim and Open Book Futures, our aims and ambitions for our new project, and our ongoing commitment to community over commercialisation.
Published: Oct 24, 2023
The Copim team talks with Hannah Hillen about her experience joining Thoth as a Metadata & Publisher Outreach Specialist.
Published: Oct 24, 2023
The Copim team talks with Amanda Ramalho about her experience joining the Board of Stewards of the Open Book Collective and Thoth as a Latin American Representative.
Published: Oct 24, 2023
The Copim team talks with Tom Grady about his experience as a Work Package Lead for Copim's Opening the Future.
Published: Oct 24, 2023
The Copim team talks with Francesca Corazza about her experience joining Open Book Collective as a Project Manager.
Published: Oct 24, 2023
The Copim team talks with Ross Higman about his experience working with Thoth as a Software Engineer.
Published: Oct 24, 2023
The Copim team talks with Claire McGann about her experience joining Open Book Futures (OBF) as a Project Manager.
Published: Oct 24, 2023
The Copim team talks with Rebekka Kiesewetter about her experience involved in Copim's Experimental Publishing Group.
Published: Oct 24, 2023
The Copim team talks with Kevin Sanders about his experience joining the Open Book Collective an Open Access Engagement Lead
JM
RK
JA
Published: Oct 03, 2023
We are inviting individuals and project teams to submit proposals for experimental, long-form scholarly book projects.
Published: Oct 09, 2023
With the COPIM project having finished at the end of 04/2023, we are looking back on what COPIM has been able to achieve over the last 3.5 years, before also casting a look ahead to the next project phase of Open Book Futures (05/2023-04/2026).
2023-Q3
Published: Aug 17, 2023
Looking back at how the COPIM project protected the privacy of our website users and rethought the typical technical model for gathering web analytics
Published: Jul 27, 2023
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.
2023-Q2
LB
Published: Apr 12, 2023
What infrastructures has COPIM built during its three+ years, how can publishers use these infrastructures now, and what are our plans for the future?
LB
Published: Jun 30, 2023
An up-to-date list of events that the Copim community has organised and/or participated in as part of the Open Book Futures project.
Published: May 31, 2023
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'.
Published: May 12, 2023
A combined guidebook and report now published, examining current archiving & preservation practice and providing guidance to the small or scholar-led open monograph publisher
RK
Published: Apr 28, 2023
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
SW
Published: Apr 28, 2023
The catalogue prototype covered using an open-source computational publishing toolset
JM
Published: Apr 28, 2023
A conversation about the making of Performing Patents Otherwise.
RK
GH
Published: Apr 20, 2023
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
GC
Published: Apr 14, 2023
RK
Published: Apr 14, 2023
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
JF
Published: Apr 06, 2023
RK
Published: Apr 03, 2023
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
2023-Q1
C
Published: Mar 30, 2023
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.
Published: Mar 29, 2023
Applying our technical model for computational publishing to building a publishers' catalogue for ScholarLed presses
Published: Mar 14, 2023
Details of a technical model for computational book publishing using Jupyter Notebook and Quarto
RH
Published: Feb 03, 2023
Building on experiments with the Internet Archive platform to trial computer-assisted archiving of publishers' full back catalogues
Published: Feb 02, 2023
A summary of the findings from our Thoth Archiving Network workshop, including an examination of challenges and barriers for institutional repositories wishing to join.
LB
Published: Jan 11, 2023
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.
LB
Published: Jan 11, 2023
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.
2022-Q4
GH
RK
Published: Dec 01, 2022
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.
GH
RK
Published: Dec 01, 2022
Our proposed workflow for creating, peer reviewing, and publishing Combinatorial Books
Published: Nov 10, 2022
RK
Published: Oct 27, 2022
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.
Published: Oct 24, 2022
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.
Published: Oct 24, 2022
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.
Published: Oct 24, 2022
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.
Published: Oct 24, 2022
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.
Published: Oct 24, 2022
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.
Published: Oct 24, 2022
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.
LB
Published: Oct 24, 2022
Interviews with the COPIM team about their experiences of working remotely while building major pieces of infrastructure together over the last three years.
2022-Q3
FC
JF
Published: Sep 13, 2022
Spotlight interview with Joe Deville
RH
Published: Sep 12, 2022
Options for computer-assisted repository archiving for small and scholar-led presses publishing open access monographs
RH
Published: Aug 30, 2022
On August 19, 2022, Thoth met with its users to demo its GraphQL API in a workshop led by software engineer Javier Arias.
Published: Aug 30, 2022
WP5 project updates about Thoth’s progress in developing its “Software as a Service” model toward long-term sustainability
W3
Published: Aug 01, 2022
Step-by-step guide for presses that wish to implement an ‘Opening the Future’ model now published
Published: Jul 25, 2022
Initial approach to repository archiving for small and scholar-led presses publishing open access monographs
W
Published: Jul 11, 2022
Two more books selected to be published OA, funded entirely by library members of OtF, taking the total published or in pipeline to nine
Published: Jul 07, 2022
As part of COPIM's work package on experimental book publishing, we are investigating the emerging area of computational book publishing.
JF
Published: Jul 06, 2022
The OBC Governance model has been designed to put members in charge of the organisation and its operations.
Published: Jul 04, 2022
A COPIM workshop in partnership with RLUK - video link and speaker slides
2022-Q2
RK
Published: Jun 30, 2022
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.
RK
Published: Jun 30, 2022
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.
Published: Jun 29, 2022
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.
Published: Jun 28, 2022
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.
Published: Jun 22, 2022
The Open Book Collective meets with US Librarians
W
Published: May 26, 2022
COPIM partner announces first Open Access books funded entirely by library membership of Opening the Future revenue model
FC
JF
Published: May 12, 2022
The Open Book Collective meets UK librarians
SW
Published: May 10, 2022
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
W
OF
Published: May 03, 2022
Nine UC campuses have signed up through the California Digital Library (CDL) to Opening the Future
Published: Apr 14, 2022
COPIM is pleased to launch our newly redesigned website
OF
W
Published: Apr 11, 2022
The Opening the Future team interviewed Annie Johnson at U of Delaware Library
2022-Q1
W
Published: Mar 18, 2022
Fifth book funded by Opening the Future library membership programme
W
Published: Mar 03, 2022
COPIM project partner CEU Press releases new book funded entirely by library membership programme
W
Published: Feb 03, 2022
We had a Zoom chat with Lorraine Estelle, project director of COUNTER.
W
Published: Jan 31, 2022
COPIM pilot partner CEU Press publishes third book funded entirely by Opening the Future programme
W
Published: Jan 17, 2022
Opening the Future programme publishes 2nd OA book, with more in pipeline
2021-Q4
CM
Published: Dec 15, 2021
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.
W
Published: Dec 07, 2021
CEU Press today publish their first OA monograph - funded entirely by Opening the Future library members
W
Published: Dec 01, 2021
An animated video explaining our collective funding model for OA monographs
C
Published: Nov 04, 2021
18 month full-time or part-time position. FTE Salary £24-35k (depending on experience).
LB
Published: Oct 27, 2021
An interview with our software developer Javier Arias, about our open dissemination system Thoth
LB
Published: Oct 26, 2021
A roundup of what the COPIM project has achieved in our second year
Published: Oct 25, 2021
CEU Press OA monograph funding pilot hits another milestone
W3
ME
Published: Oct 14, 2021
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.
JF
Published: Oct 11, 2021
2021-Q3
W3
Published: Sep 20, 2021
Second COPIM publisher off to a flying start with their collective OA funding model
W
Published: Aug 23, 2021
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.
Published: Aug 16, 2021
Central European University Press collective funding model, in collaboration with COPIM's Work Package 3, gaining momentum
JM
KJ
Published: Jul 01, 2021
2021-Q2
W
Published: Jun 23, 2021
Collective library funding model for OA monographs shortlisted for September prize
Published: Jun 08, 2021
Highly-regarded UK university press launches library membership backlist subscription programme, to fund new OA books
W3
Published: May 13, 2021
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.
Published: May 05, 2021
COPIM partner reaches first OA monograph milestone funded solely by ‘Opening the Future’ members
Published: May 04, 2021
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
EF
Published: Apr 21, 2021
Mapping the minimal metadata requirements for the interaction of open access (OA) presses with the scholarly communications supply chain.
2021-Q1
Published: Feb 01, 2021
W
Published: Jan 29, 2021
Making software freely available for any publisher to adapt and use themselves
W3
Published: Jan 19, 2021
Member access to the programme’s backlist of books is available now via Project MUSE
JM
Published: Jan 11, 2021
2020-Q4
LB
Published: Nov 11, 2020
A roundup of what the COPIM project has achieved in our first year
Published: Oct 27, 2020
Published: Oct 22, 2020
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'
Published: Oct 22, 2020
SM
Published: Oct 20, 2020
SM
Published: Oct 19, 2020
AM
Published: Oct 12, 2020
COPIM and OPERAS-P workshop for Croatia, Slovenia and Greece.
AM
Published: Oct 06, 2020
COPIM and OPERAS-P workshop for Nordic countries
2020-Q3
AM
Published: Sep 23, 2020
COPIM and OPERAS-P workshop in Poland
ME
Published: Sep 17, 2020
Some thoughts on the challenges of publicising and integrating the work of all the COPIM work packages
W3
Published: Sep 08, 2020
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.
W3
Published: Aug 17, 2020
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)
AM
Published: Aug 06, 2020
COPIM, OPERAS-P and open-access.network workshop in Germany
EF
Published: Apr 21, 2021
Mapping the minimal metadata requirements for the interaction of open access (OA) presses with the scholarly communications supply chain.
Published: Jul 17, 2020
2020-Q2
SM
Published: Jun 15, 2020
Published: May 25, 2020
LB
Published: Apr 15, 2020
A series of reports on the topics discussed at the COPIM Publishers Workshop in March 2020
Published: Apr 15, 2020
2020-Q1
LB
Published: Mar 31, 2020
Over two months since our kick-off meeting in Coventry, and nearly a quarter of the way through 2020: a COPIM project update
LB
Published: Mar 26, 2020
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?
