Miranda Barnes

Initial approach to repository archiving for small and scholar-led presses publishing open access monographs

Work Package 7 of the COPIM Project has released their Scoping Report, identifying and examining the key challenges associated with archiving and preserving open access monographs, particularly those published by small and scholar-led presses.

A summary of the findings from our Thoth Archiving Network workshop, including an examination of challenges and barriers for institutional repositories wishing to join.

A combined guidebook and report now published, examining current archiving & preservation practice and providing guidance to the small or scholar-led open monograph publisher

First open access monograph records deposited via TAN are now live in the University's dedicated DSpace repository.

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

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

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.

Reflections on the first four meetings of the National Libraries Network and future directions

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.