Tom Grady

CEU Press today publish their first OA monograph - funded entirely by Opening the Future library members

Identifying the many OA revenue models in use today, in the context of today’s challenging publishing environment - from COVID-19 and budget cuts, to print sales, funder mandates, and research evaluation.

Some thoughts on the challenges of publicising and integrating the work of all the COPIM work packages

CEU Press OA monograph funding pilot hits another milestone

Second COPIM publisher off to a flying start with their collective OA funding model

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.

Member access to the programme’s backlist of books is available now via Project MUSE

Making software freely available for any publisher to adapt and use themselves

An animated video explaining our collective funding model for OA monographs

COPIM partner reaches first OA monograph milestone funded solely by ‘Opening the Future’ members

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. 

Highly-regarded UK university press launches library membership backlist subscription programme, to fund new OA books

Collective library funding model for OA monographs shortlisted for September prize

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.

Central European University Press collective funding model, in collaboration with COPIM's Work Package 3, gaining momentum

A COPIM workshop in partnership with RLUK - video link and speaker slides

Opening the Future programme publishes 2nd OA book, with more in pipeline

We had a Zoom chat with Lorraine Estelle, project director of COUNTER.

COPIM pilot partner CEU Press publishes third book funded entirely by Opening the Future programme

COPIM project partner CEU Press releases new book funded entirely by library membership programme

Fifth book funded by Opening the Future library membership programme

The Opening the Future team interviewed Annie Johnson at U of Delaware Library 

Nine UC campuses have signed up through the California Digital Library (CDL) to Opening the Future

COPIM partner announces first Open Access books funded entirely by library membership of Opening the Future revenue model

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.

Two more books selected to be published OA, funded entirely by library members of OtF, taking the total published or in pipeline to nine

Step-by-step guide for presses that wish to implement an ‘Opening the Future’ model now published

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 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

The latest of our blog posts on the theme of ‘How can I persuade my institution to support collective funding for open access books?’

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

Some thoughts on progress and challenges for Opening the Future, by the half-way point of the Copim OBF project, October 2024

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.

In this post, we reflect on what bibliodiversity should encompass, how we think it should be achieved, and what we are doing at Copim to support it