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

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.

A keynote lecture delivered at the Open Educational Resources (OER20) conference on April 2nd, 2020.

An up-to-date list of activities that COPIM has been organizing and/or been invited to participate in.

A freely downloadable flyer about our work at COPIM.

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.

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

Marking the start of our outreach work

An animated video explaining our collective funding model for OA monographs

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

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.

An interview with our software developer Javier Arias, about our open dissemination system Thoth

Mapping the minimal metadata requirements for the interaction of open access (OA) presses with the scholarly communications supply chain.

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.

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'.