Toby Steiner

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

The Thoth team provides an update on progress made during the past few months.

A recap of our recent workshop with publishers using Thoth, held Nov 16, 2023.

Em 11 de abril de 2024, o Thoth organizou um workshop voltado para editoras latino-americanas para apresentar as funcionalidades e os recursos do Thoth e para saber mais sobre suas necessidades específicas.

A collectively authored response by the Copim community, in which we welcome the principle of open access by default in the REF 2029 open access policy for longform publications, but argue that it could provide clearer mechanisms for supporting Diamond open access publishing

Looking back at Year 1 of the Open Book Futures Project and the activities of the Archiving & Preservation team in Work Package 7

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.

Some thoughts from the Copim Open Book Futures team on Research England's decision not to include an OA mandate for monographs submitted to the next REF

In this post, we outline what community-led means to us in theory and in practice, how it can be identified in organisations, and some of our concerns about the co-option of the term.

What might it mean to do scholarly publishing in a ‘sustainable’ way? In this post, we provide some insights on how Copim is thinking and working through this question.