2023-Q1

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.