On this page you can view an up-to-date list of outputs produced by the Copim community as part of the Open Book Futures project. You will also find links to all the publications available on this site.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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
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
by Janneke Adema, Simon Bowie, and Rebekka Kiesewetter
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
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.
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.
A summary of the findings from our Thoth Archiving Network workshop, including an examination of challenges and barriers for institutional repositories wishing to join.
by Simon Bowie, Gary Hall, and Rebekka Kiesewetter
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.
Interviews with the COPIM team about their experiences of working remotely while building major pieces of infrastructure together over the last three years.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
by Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs
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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.
In this section we have collected different guidelines, best practices, and recommendations for publishers and authors who want to promote further interaction with their open access book(s) or book collections and wish to implement or experiment with (libre) open practices.
In this part, we explore various open source tools, software, technologies, platforms, infrastructures, guidelines, and best practices, that lend themselves to adoption by publishers and authors so as to support and enable interaction with open access books.
This part provides a literature overview identifying the opportunities digital technologies offer for enhanced interactions with open access books. It outline types of interactions, various book publishing experiments with reuse, and technological and cultural inhibitions.
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.
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.
The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC), Coventry University is seeking to appoint an Open-Source Software Developer to support our international and inter-disciplinary research in Experimental Humanities/Posthumanities.
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.
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