November 13, 2024
Towards 5 years of Copim: What has been done? What is still to do?
The Copim team are closing in on 5 years of work towards building the infrastructures, workflows and practices required to deliver a fairer more sustainable future for longform open access publishing. In this presentation, Joe Deville will provide an update on how this work is going, what has been achieved, and where there is work to be done. He will touch on most of Copim’s areas of work, including developing new revenue models, new metadata management solutions, new experimental publishing practices, and new archiving networks.
Our Speaker:
Joe Deville is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Lancaster University and Managing Director of the Open Book Collective. At Lancaster, he is based jointly in the Department of Sociology and the Management School. He is currently leading the Copim Open Book Futures project and is also a co-founder and co-editor of Mattering Press, a Diamond Open Access book publisher and UK-registered charity.
‘Opening the Future: the present and future of an open access revenue model.’
Two university presses (CEU Press and Liverpool University Press) began using the Opening the Future model to flip their frontlists to OA via subscriptions to their closed backlist in 2021. It is therefore one of the oldest implementations of this funding mechanism for books, and in 2024 has entered its first period of renewal. Kira Hopkins will describe how this model has used acquisitions budgets to fund OA at these two presses, how it is planning to expand, and what indications of mid to long term sustainability of collective OA book funding this first period of renewals can provide.
Our Speaker:
Kira Hopkins works on Opening the Future, a part of Copim Open Book Futures. Previously, they worked at Ubiquity, a born-OA publishing house in London as a book editor and journal account manager, after completing a PhD in Archaeology.