Copim’s Experimental Publishing Group is researching ways to more closely align existing software, tools and technologies, workflows and infrastructures for experimental publishing with the workflows of open access book publishers.
The Group are currently working on expanding and maintaining the Experimental Publishing Compendium. This Compendium acts as a valuable guide and catalogue for those seeking to experiment with the form, content, and practice of scholarly publishing by listing various tools, practices, and examples that can help inform experimental publishing.
This Group is also conducting experimental book pilots, working with publishers, authors and open-source platform providers to foster and encourage practices of experimentation and reuse. Below, you will find documentation from the three pilot case studies conducted under the COPIM research project (2019–2023). Three further pilots will be conducted as part of the Open Book Futures research project and you can also follow their progress on this page.