Lucy Barnes

Over two months since our kick-off meeting in Coventry, and nearly a quarter of the way through 2020: a COPIM project update

A series of reports on the topics discussed at the COPIM Publishers Workshop in March 2020

Based on our experience hosting the COPIM Publishers Workshop online on 16 March 2020, what are the do's and don't's of hosting an online workshop?

A roundup of what the COPIM project has achieved in our first year

A roundup of what the COPIM project has achieved in our second year

An interview with our software developer Javier Arias, about our open dissemination system Thoth

The business model of Open Book Publishers. Last updated February 2022.

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Interviews with the COPIM team about their experiences of working remotely while building major pieces of infrastructure together over the last three years.

A freely downloadable flyer about our work at COPIM.

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.

What infrastructures has COPIM built during its three+ years, how can publishers use these infrastructures now, and what are our plans for the future?

An up-to-date list of activities that COPIM has been organizing and/or been invited to participate in.

An up-to-date list of events that the Copim community has organised and/or participated in as part of the Open Book Futures project.

Setting out the relationship between Copim and Open Book Futures, our aims and ambitions for our new project, and our ongoing commitment to community over commercialisation.

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 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.

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

An introduction to a set of interviews with several of the Copim team, about their work and how it relates to this year's Open Access Week theme: 'Community over commercialisation'.

In this post, we outline what community-led means to us in theory and in practice, how it can be identified in organisations, and some of our concerns about the co-option of the term.

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