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Governance
The Copim community advocates for horizontal and cooperative knowledge-sharing partnerships between librarians, publishers and researchers. Copim’s groups, initiatives and infrastructures are governed by policies and procedures that ensure community oversight and ownership. Below, you can learn more about our research into, and creation of, durable and collaborative governance structures.
Blog posts
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: May 08, 2024
Information on how the Open Book Futures (OBF) project will collect, use, disclose and protect personal data captured as part of the OBF Project.
KH
W3
Published: May 02, 2024
Opening the Future is seeking library members to help advise and steer our next steps
JF
Published: Apr 06, 2023
JF
Published: Apr 06, 2023
JF
Published: Jul 06, 2022
The OBC Governance model has been designed to put members in charge of the organisation and its operations.
CM
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.
JF
Published: Oct 11, 2021
Published: Nov 20, 2020
Published: Oct 23, 2020
Panel presentation as part of the Open Access Week webinar 'Equity and inclusion: Community-owned infrastructures for open science', Oct 21, 2020.
SM
Published: Jun 15, 2020
