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Copim is a community working to build a fairer, more open future for scholarly books. This is an archive of our work from November 2019 to August 2025.
Welcome to the Copim community: an archive of our work from 2019-2025
Copim is a community of people and organisations who collaborate on community-led and values-driven initiatives to support open access authors, publishers and readers. Initially formed around the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs [COPIM] project (2019–2023), the Copim community has continued to grow and develop through our work on the Open Book Futures project (2023–2026) and our wider activities. Learn more about the Copim community using the links below, and scroll down to read an archive of our publications from November 2019 to August 2025. Our most recent publications and the latest news and information about us can be found at our new documentation site: https://copim.pub/. You can find out more about why and how we made the change to a new documentation site by reading this post.
Our most recent posts until August 2025
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Published: Aug 22, 2025
On the 8th of July 2025, members from Opening the Future and the Open Book Collective had an opportunity to undertake outreach with the Forum for Open Research in MENA (Middle East and North Africa) (FORM), an OA advocacy group and community of practice.
Published: Aug 12, 2025
Copim is concerned about how the UK's Online Safety Act 2023 puts up barriers to scholar-led open access publishing
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Published: Aug 12, 2025
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Published: Aug 04, 2025
4 October 2025, 12:30 to 18:00 BST: A hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing ‘ServPub’ experimental book pilot project. We will be discussing experimental tools, non-extractive practices, and shared infrastructures that resist corporate publishing models
RK
Published: Aug 01, 2025
The third post documenting the ‘ServPub – A Collective Infrastructure to Serve and Publish’ book pilot project centres on a recorded conversation with the project team exploring the negotiations involved in collaborative publishing across academic and non-academic contexts
JF
Published: Jul 24, 2025
Joanne Fitzpatrick and Jordy Findanis summarise the key points learned from consultations about accessibility with a range of small diamond open access monograph publishers.
KH
Published: Jul 17, 2025
Copim catches up with author Tess C. Rankin about their book "Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women’s Fiction", which was published OA by Liverpool University Press thanks to Opening the Future.
KH
Published: Jul 17, 2025
Copim catches up with author Dean Allbritton about their book "Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain", which was published OA by Liverpool University Press thanks to Opening the Future.
Published: Jul 10, 2025
As the Copim Community enters the final year of the Open Book Futures Project, the team is pleased to share some updates on recent progress and milestones.
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Published: Jun 20, 2025
Guiding you through the choppy waters of open access book resources
Published: Jun 16, 2025
Investigating the links between open access publishing and digital privacy through integrating the Tor infrastructure into open publishing infrastructures
Published: Jun 13, 2025
A tribute from the Copim team to Elaine Sykes, Head of Open Research at Lancaster University
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Published: Jun 10, 2025
Members of the Copim community share our thoughts on changes at PubPub, responding to recent announcements and sharing an update on our own documentation site's future
RK
Published: May 09, 2025
On Refusing Seamlessness: Archiving, Analysing, and Publishing as Living Practice. In conversation with Mike Fortun, Wambui Wamunyu, and Angela Okune
KH
Published: Apr 30, 2025
Copim catch up with author Daniel Silva (Associate Professor, Middlebury College) about his book "Empire Found", which was published OA by Liverpool University Press thanks to Opening the Future
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Published: Apr 30, 2025
Exploring the capabilities of DSpace repository software
Published: Apr 24, 2025
For Work Package 5 Accessibility, Joanne Fitzpatrick examines where the work of academic librarians intersects with providing accessible content, with a view to informing small publishers of what they can do to maximise their appeal to libraries.
Published: Apr 24, 2025
A range of accessibility auditing tools, models, guidelines and resources suitable for supporting accessible outputs from diamond open access publishers are described by Joanne Fitzpatrick of Work Package 5 Accessibility.
Published: Apr 24, 2025
Joanne Fitzpatrick of the Accessibility work package provides an examination of legislative requirements and standards across multiple countries, and reflects on how publishers can measure compliance with them and use them as motivation to achieve accessible outputs.
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Published: Apr 24, 2025
Copim catch up with author Mario Graña Taborelli (Visiting Fellow, UCL) about his book "Jurisdictional Battlefields", which was published OA by Liverpool University Press thanks to Opening the Future
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Published: Apr 17, 2025
Now that the dust has settled on UKSG 2025, we’ve come together to reflect on what might possibly be our last UKSG for a while as the Open Book Futures project funding from the Research England Development Fund and Arcadia ends in April 2026.
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Published: Apr 16, 2025
This blog post traces the efforts undertaken during the past 24-36 months to foster collaboration between like-minded open not-for-profit infrastructures active in OA book publishing, leading to the inception of the OPERAS Open Infrastructures for OA books Working Group.
KH
Published: Apr 10, 2025
Copim catch up with author Peter Watson (Teaching Fellow at the University of Leeds) about his book "Football and Nation Building in Colombia (2010-2018)", which was published OA by Liverpool University Press thanks to Opening the Future
HH
Published: Apr 09, 2025
We revisit the webinar recently organised by the Open Access Book Network (OABN, the Open Institutional Publishing Association (OIPA), and Thoth Open Metadata.
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Published: Mar 27, 2025
Announcing a new direction for our open-access archiving solution
Published: Mar 26, 2025
OBF colleagues in Experimental Publishing and Archiving & Preservation held a joint workshop with OA monograph publishers with an interest in experimental publishing, looking at publishing practices and preservation workflows.
Published: Mar 21, 2025
In this post for the ServPub pilot project, we reflect on the ServPub infrastructure and how the collectives building it conceive of their infrastructure as physical and social.
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Published: Mar 17, 2025
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Published: Mar 13, 2025
In this post for the Deep Maps: Blue Humanities pilot project, we outline our experimental technical process for open peer review using GitHub
RK
Published: Mar 06, 2025
On gathering as a generative metaphor, a practice-based ethos, a hands-on method, and a structuring element: A conversation with Aurelia Munene, Syokau Mutonga, Leonida Mutuku, Angela Okune, Wambui Wamunyu, Mike Fortun, and François van Schalkwyk
