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Copim is a community of people and organisations who collaborate on community-led and values-driven initiatives, which help to support open access authors, publishers and readers.

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Learn more about Copim

Who we are
The Copim community combines work on funded research projects with wider forms of engagement aimed at building a…
Our values
The Copim community shares a commitment to building an open, inclusive, diverse and community-led ecosystem for the…
Governance
The Copim community advocates for horizontal and cooperative knowledge-sharing partnerships between librarians,…
Events
This Copim community organises and participates in many events. This page provides a public record of the outreach and…

Key reads

2024

The Copim perspective on bibliodiversity
The Copim perspective on bibliodiversity

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

2024

The Copim perspective on community-led
The Copim perspective on community-led

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.

2024

The Copim perspective on scale
The Copim perspective on scale

In this post, we explain the concept of 'scaling small', why it is powerful, and how it has been implemented in Copim's work.

2023

The Copim perspective on sustainability
The Copim perspective on sustainability

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.