The Open Book Futures project is co-funded by Arcadia and Research England Development (RED) Fund (UKRI). Arcadia is a charitable foundation that works to protect nature, preserve cultural heritage and promote open access to knowledge. Since 2002 Arcadia has awarded more than $1 billion to organizations around the world. Research England Development (RED) Fund (UKRI) is a fund supporting institutional-level innovative projects in research and knowledge exchange including collaborations between education providers and between education providers and business.
", "lang": { "id": "eng", "title": { "en": "English" } }, "type": { "id": "notes", "title": { "de": "Anmerkungen", "en": "Notes" } } } ], "contributors": [ { "affiliations": [ { "name": "Thoth Open Metadata" }, { "name": "punctum books" } ], "person_or_org": { "family_name": "van Gerven Oei", "given_name": "Vincent W.J.", "identifiers": [ { "identifier": "0000-0003-1637-4261", "scheme": "orcid" } ], "name": "van Gerven Oei, Vincent W.J.", "type": "personal" }, "role": { "id": "other", "title": { "de": "Andere", "en": "Other" } } } ], "creators": [ { "affiliations": [ { "name": "University of Cambridge Trinity College" } ], "person_or_org": { "family_name": "Gatti", "given_name": "Rupert", "identifiers": [ { "identifier": "0000-0003-0676-9024", "scheme": "orcid" } ], "name": "Gatti, Rupert", "type": "personal" } } ], "description": "Presentation delivered as part of a 2-day workshop at the 2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access: Centering Social Justice in Scholarly Communication to Advance Research as a Public Good (University of Cape Town, 8-14 December 2024). The second summit focused on integrating social justice into scholarly communication. It highlighted the necessity of making research a public good by ensuring equitable access and participation across diverse communities. The summit attracted over 1,100 participants from 73 countries and featured discussions on decolonization, inclusivity, and the role of language diversity in academic publishing.
\nThe Open Monograph Publishing Workshop, hosted by Copim and the Association of African Universities (9-10 December 2024), explored strategies and mechanisms to move towards sustainable open access (OA) book publishing ecosystems in Global South contexts. The event brought together librarians, publishers and those developing open research strategies to collaboratively work towards new ways of supporting longform (book) Diamond OA publishing. Plenary sessions explored routes for securing bibliodiverse, equitable publishing futures, alongside case studies from librarians highlighting innovative local approaches, and from publishers highlighting new and experimental publishing practices while parallel sessions provided opportunities for hands-on skills building and collaboration.
\nThe presentation was part of the day one breakout session: Getting concrete in OA book publishing (1). Delegates chose one of three themes. Each session began with an introduction, followed by collective discussion, before each group reported back to the wider group.
\nBreakout 1: Publishing OA books: Business models and workflows
\nThis collection serves as a hub for the variety of outputs (reports, deliverables, presentations, etc) generated by the Copim community in the context of both the initial COPIM project (November 2019 - April 2023), and its successor, the Open Book Futures project (May 2023 - April 2026).
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\nCopim (originally Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) is an international partnership and community of researchers, universities, librarians, open access book publishers and infrastructure providers. It is building community-owned, open systems and infrastructures to enable open access book publishing to flourish.
\nThe landscape of open access book publishing stands at a crossroads: one avenue leads to the monopolisation of open access book publishing by commercial publishers and for-profit intermediaries while the other opens up a more diverse, scholar-led, community-owned, and not-for-profit publishing ecosystem.
\nCopim is a community dedicated towards supporting these second sets of possibility. It does so by delivering major improvements in the infrastructures used by open access book publishers and those publishers making a transition to open access books. COPIM's innovations will enable more productive collaborations between people (including librarians, publishers, and researchers) in the open access landscape and expand opportunities to develop the skills necessary to run open access publishing operations.
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\nCommunity-led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs is supported by the Research England Development (RED) Fund, and Arcadia.
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