Gareth Cole

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

Part of a short series of posts regarding some of the challenges that exist for small publishers of open access monographs, this post considers the challenges of metadata in archiving.

Part of a short series of posts regarding some of the challenges that exist for small publishers of open access monographs, this post considers the phenomena of link rot and reference rot.

Part of a short series of posts regarding some of the challenges that exist for small publishers of open access monographs, this post considers advantages and disadvantages in existing pathways to preservation.

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