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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
CC
Published: Oct 01, 2024
View recordings and slides from our 'update and showcase' webinar on 25 September 2024, 15:00-17:00 (BST)
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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
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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.
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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.
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Published: Jul 24, 2024
It’s been a busy few months at OtF with new library sign ups, the start of membership renewals, new books published, and other developments.
AH
Published: Jul 02, 2024
The Copim Open Book Futures team reflect on a successful first year and look ahead to Year 2 of the project where they will continue their work to generate new forms of support for open access book publishing.
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Published: Jun 04, 2024
A collectively authored response by the Copim community, in which we welcome the principle of open access by default in the REF 2029 open access policy for longform publications, but argue that it could provide clearer mechanisms for supporting Diamond open access publishing
GC
Published: May 31, 2024
Looking back at Year 1 of the Open Book Futures Project and the activities of the Archiving & Preservation team in Work Package 7
Published: May 29, 2024
First open access monograph records deposited via TAN are now live in the University's dedicated DSpace repository.
HH
Published: May 21, 2024
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AR
Published: May 21, 2024
HH
Published: May 14, 2024
Unveiling the new website design and development, with two short walkthrough videos
AR
Published: May 06, 2024
Em 11 de abril de 2024, o Thoth organizou um workshop voltado para editoras latino-americanas para apresentar as funcionalidades e os recursos do Thoth e para saber mais sobre suas necessidades específicas.
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W3
Published: May 02, 2024
Opening the Future is seeking library members to help advise and steer our next steps
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W3
Published: Apr 30, 2024
In this post, we set out some of the preliminary considerations for embedding Opening the Future into third party workflows further down the line.
