COPIM

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Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)
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Commercial?No
Type of projectInternational Partnership
Established2019
Launched2019-11
Funding£3.6M (£2,202,947 Research England, £800,000 Arcadia Fund, £576,537 partners’ own contributions).[1]
Websitecopim.ac.uk

COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) is an international project funded by Research England and Arcadia Fund.

Following the principle of 'Scaling Small',[2] the project aims to build not-for-profit community-owned, open infrastructures to enable open access book publishing to prosper.[3]

COPIM has been named as a Supporting Action[4] in UKRI's 2020 Open Access Review Consultation.[5]

Work Packages[]

In seven distinct Work Packages, the project explores:

  • how to scope and build support for an integration of open access books in libraries;[6][7][8]
  • how to build a collective of librarians, publishers and researchers invested in sustainable OA through a not-for-profit, community-governed OA book revenue management and information exchange platform;[9]
  • how to establish funding models that enable a transition of legacy publishers' existing business models to non-BPC OA;[10][11]
  • research on, and implementation of robust governance models for not-for-profit, community-owned digital infrastructures such as those being developed in other work packages;[12]
  • channels of OA book discovery and dissemination, culminating in the development of an open-source OA book metadata creation and dissemination system and service;[13][14]
  • how to establish more robust ways to tackle the technical and legal impediments to a more streamlined process of archiving and preservation of OA books technical and legal solutions.[15]

Opening the Future[]

Opening the Future, a revenue model developed in COPIM's Work Package 3, is a collective subscription model through which subscribing libraries can get unlimited access to a selection of a chosen publisher's backlist, with perpetual access after three years. The generated membership revenue is used by the publisher solely to produce new Open access monographs.[16]

The model is currently being piloted in collaboration with CEU Press and Liverpool University Press.[17][18]

Thoth[]

Thoth is an Open source metadata management and distribution platform developed by COPIM's Dissemination Work Package. Thoth is specifically tailored to tackle issues of getting Open access (OA) works into the book supply chain.[19] It is being built with openness in mind: its source code is open, its data is exposed via open APIs and all its outputs are released under a CC0 license.

Thoth’s main goals are:

  • To lower the entry barrier to good metadata management and practices for small/medium OA publishers who are currently struggling to produce their metadata to all the various different specifications that each distributing platform requires;
  • To help distribute open access books, which have been systematically excluded from a book supply chain that was created for closed books;
  • To expose quality and first-hand metadata, using industry standards, publicly for anyone to consume.[20]

References[]

  1. ^ "COPIM Funders". COPIM. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  2. ^ Adema, Janneke; Moore, Samuel A. (2021-03-22). "Scaling Small; Or How to Envision New Relationalities for Knowledge Production". Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture. 16 (1). doi:10.16997/wpcc.918. S2CID 233452312.
  3. ^ Schaffhauser, Dian (2019-07-15). "Project Working to Improve Open-Access Publishing -". Campus Technology. Archived from the original on 2020-08-11. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
  4. ^ UKRI Open Access Review: Consultation (PDF). UKRI. 2020. pp. 34–5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-02-17.
  5. ^ "How our open access policies are changing". www.ukri.org. Archived from the original on 2021-02-17. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
  6. ^ Barnes, Sherri L. (2020-12-08). "The Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project: A transformative open access monograph initiative". College & Research Libraries News. 8 (11): 534. doi:10.5860/crln.81.11.534.
  7. ^ Ball, Joanna; Stone, Graham; Thompson, Sarah (2021-02-05). "Opening up the Library: Transforming our Policies, Practices and Structures". LIBER Quarterly. 31 (1): 1–16. doi:10.18352/lq.10360. ISSN 2213-056X. S2CID 234047975.
  8. ^ Barnes, Lucy; Bickley, Rachel (2021-03-31). "How to shake up ebook publishing". Research Professional News. Archived from the original on 2021-03-31. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
  9. ^ Gerakopoulou, Elli; Penier, Izabella; Deville, Joe (2021-05-04). "The promise of collaboration: collective funding models and the integration of Open Access books into libraries". doi:10.5281/zenodo.4756894. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. ^ Eve, Martin Paul (2020-11-06). "The future of humanities research work and OA monographs". Wonkhe. Archived from the original on 2020-11-06. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
  11. ^ "COPIM-CEU Press Opening the Future initiative announced as a finalist in ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing". www.alpsp.org. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  12. ^ Moore, Samuel (2021-05-06). "Exploring models for community governance". doi:10.5281/zenodo.4730687. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. ^ Stone, Graham; Gatti, Rupert; Oei, Vincent W. J. van Gerven; Arias, Javier; Steiner, Tobias; Ferwerda, Eelco (2021-04-21). "WP5 Scoping Report: Building an Open Dissemination System". Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM). doi:10.21428/785a6451.939caeab. S2CID 225499844.
  14. ^ Grindley, Nick (2020-10-27). "Making OA Monographs Discoverable – Response to the COPIM Report". Jisc Library services. Archived from the original on 2020-11-01. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
  15. ^ "Preserving Open Access Books: The COPIM Project - Digital Preservation Coalition". www.dpconline.org. Archived from the original on 2020-11-05. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
  16. ^ "About the Model". www.openingthefuture.net. Archived from the original on 2022-01-16. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  17. ^ "CEU Press". ceup.openingthefuture.net. Archived from the original on 2021-12-17. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  18. ^ "Liverpool University Press". lup.openingthefuture.net. Archived from the original on 2021-12-08. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  19. ^ Stone, Graham; Gatti, Rupert; Oei, Vincent W. J. van Gerven; Arias, Javier; Steiner, Tobias; Ferwerda, Eelco (2021-04-21). "WP5 Scoping Report: Building an Open Dissemination System". COPIM. doi:10.21428/785a6451.939caeab.
  20. ^ Arias, Javier; Barnes, Lucy (2021-10-27). "Thoth, open metadata and building structural equity: an interview for Open Access Week". COPIM. doi:10.21428/785a6451.c7ddbe7d.
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