Business models

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.

Opening the Future is seeking library members to help advise and steer our next steps

In this post, we set out some of the preliminary considerations for embedding Opening the Future into third party workflows further down the line.

In the first quarter of 2024, Opening the Future has been working on updating the front and back end of our websites to reflect changes to both our infrastructure, and the wider landscape of funding and publication.

Opening the Future is expanding its list of participating publishers, using our funding infrastructure to support more smaller, scholarly presses in their move towards equitable and sustainable open access publishing.

An Open Book Futures and Project MUSE webinar

Joe Deville explores the rationale underpinning Open Book Collective's approach to generating funds for publishing and supporting Open Access books, counterposing it to the dominant funding mechanism: Book Processing Charges, or 'BPCs'.

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

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

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

Fifth book funded by Opening the Future library membership programme

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

CEU Press OA monograph funding pilot hits another milestone

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.

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

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

Collective library funding model for OA monographs shortlisted for September prize

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

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. 

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

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

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

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

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.

A COPIM Work Package 3 blog post on the final Redux 2020 webinar 'An Altered Landscape: The Impact of Covid-19 on University Presses' (Thursday 30 July)