Lucy Barnes

Over two months since our kick-off meeting in Coventry, and nearly a quarter of the way through 2020: a COPIM project update

A series of reports on the topics discussed at the COPIM Publishers Workshop in March 2020

Based on our experience hosting the COPIM Publishers Workshop online on 16 March 2020, what are the do's and don't's of hosting an online workshop?

A roundup of what the COPIM project has achieved in our first year

A roundup of what the COPIM project has achieved in our second year

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

Interviews with the COPIM team about their experiences of working remotely while building major pieces of infrastructure together over the last three years.

A freely downloadable flyer about our work at 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.

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

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

An up-to-date list of activities that team COPIM has been organizing and/or been invited to participate in as part of the Open Book Futures project.