Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)

« Dans un article récent du Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, Kira Hopkins et Kevin Sanders analysent le développement de…

« Is the biggest blocker to open access (OA) for books actually the economics of it all? Book processing charges (BPCs) do not scale but they remain a significant method of…

« The Open Book Futures (OBF) project, funded by Arcadia and the Research England Development (RED) Fund, was launched in May 2023 and will run until April 2026. OBF is led…

« (…) 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…

« 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…

« 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…

« Exploring practical problems and potential strategies to fund equitable OA book publishing
This SCONUL and Copim-hosted webinar, held 25th January 2024, brought together UK library leaders…

« Introducing the Copim community’s new website and reflecting on the idea and technology behind (…) »

« The compendium is a guide and reference for scholars, publishers, developers, librarians, and designers who want to challenge, push, and redefine the shape, form, and rationale of scholarly books. The…

« We recently released our Open Call for Experimental Publishing Pilots. Based on some of the initial questions we have received from individuals and project teams currently preparing…