COPIM

COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) is an international partnership funded by Research England and Arcadia Fund between 11/2019 and 04/2026.

Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)
Commercial?No
Type of projectInternational Partnership
Established2019
Launched2019-11
Funding
Websitecopim.ac.uk

During its first project phase (11/2019-04/2023), the community has been involved in the foundational project of the same name. As of 05/2023, this is now followed by a second project phase under the title of Open Book Futures,[2] through which the Copim community aims to expand and accelerate the uptake of the infrastructures developed during its initial project phase.

Following the principle of 'Scaling Small',[3] the project has developed a set of proof-of-concepts of not-for-profit community-owned, open infrastructures to enable open access book publishing to prosper.[4]

COPIM has been named as a Supporting Action[5] in UKRI's 2020 Open Access Review Consultation.[6]

Work Packages

In seven distinct Work Packages, the project has explored:

  • how to scope and build support for an integration of open access books in libraries;[7][8][9]
  • 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;[10]
  • how to establish funding models that enable a transition of legacy publishers' existing business models to non-BPC OA;[11][12]
  • 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;[13]
  • channels of OA book discovery and dissemination, culminating in the development of an open-source OA book metadata creation and dissemination system and service;[14][15]
  • ways to more closely align existing software, tools and technologies, workflows and infrastructures for experimental publishing with the workflows of OA book publishers;[16]
  • 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.[17]

Open Book Collective

An output of COPIM's Revenue Work Package, the Open Book Collective is a nonprofit platform and community of OA book publishers, infrastructure providers, and libraries that are collaborating to bring about a future for OA book publishing free from inequitable Book Processing Charges. The Open Book Collective has been registered as a CLG (company limited by guarantee) in the UK in 2022..

Opening the Future

Opening the Future, a revenue model developed in COPIM's Business Models Work Package, 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.[18]

The model is currently being piloted in collaboration with CEU Press and Liverpool University Press under the remit of COPIM.[19][20]

Thoth

Thoth is a nonprofit 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.[21] It is being built with openness in mind: its source code is open, its data is exposed via open APIs and all of the generated metadata 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 the various and 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 primarily with closed, priced books in mind;
  • To expose openly licensed, publisher-governed metadata using industry standards publicly for anyone to consume.[22]

As of 2022, Thoth has been officially registered as a not-for-profit Community Interest Company in the UK, under No. 14549556.

References
  1. "COPIM Funders". COPIM. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  2. "£5.8 million funding to significantly expand and accelerate COPIM open access infrastructures". Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM). 30 March 2023. doi:10.21428/785a6451.39b2b1ea.
  3. 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.
  4. Schaffhauser, Dian (2019-07-15). "Project Working to Improve Open-Access Publishing -". Campus Technology. Archived from the original on 2021-07-11. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
  5. UKRI Open Access Review: Consultation (PDF). UKRI. 2020. pp. 34–5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-02-17.
  6. "How our open access policies are changing". www.ukri.org. Archived from the original on 2021-02-17. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
  7. 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. S2CID 230608641.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. 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.
  12. "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.
  13. Moore, Samuel (2021-05-06). "Exploring models for community governance". doi:10.5281/zenodo.4730687. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  14. 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. S2CID 225499844.
  15. 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.
  16. Books Contain Multitudes: Exploring Experimental Publishing (2022 update). Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM). 2022-04-26. doi:10.21428/785a6451.1792b84f.
  17. "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.
  18. "About the Model". www.openingthefuture.net. Archived from the original on 2022-01-16. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  19. "CEU Press". ceup.openingthefuture.net. Archived from the original on 2021-12-07. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  20. "Liverpool University Press". lup.openingthefuture.net. Archived from the original on 2021-12-08. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  21. 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. S2CID 225499844.
  22. 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. S2CID 240123218.
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