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 la voie diamant pour les livres.
L’article part du constat de l’échec du modèle actuellement dominant dans la publication…

« 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 paying to produce OA monographs for many researchers and libraries. (…) »

« 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 by Lancaster University and builds upon the pioneering work of the COPIM project (2019–2023) to initiate a step-change in the…

« (…) 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, opening up some of the different ways in which sustainability can be understood in the context…

« 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. (…) »

« 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. (…) »

« 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 to share their perspectives on their library’s role in OA book funding and publishing. (…) »

« 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 compendium gathers and links tools, examples of experimental books, and experimental publishing practices with a focus on free and open-source…

« 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 an application, we have drafted the underneath blog post with some more background information on the call. We also have…