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Description
Open Book Futures is a project to significantly expand key infrastructures created by COPIM to achieve a step change in how community-owned open access book publishing is delivered.
Open Book Futures will follow the principles of ‘Scaling Small’ that guided the work of the COPIM project, further developing the infrastructures, business models, networks and resources that are needed to deliver a future for Open Access books led not by large commercial operations, but by communities of scholars, small-to-medium-sized publishers, not-for-profit infrastructure providers, and scholarly libraries.
Open Book Futures is supported by the Research England Development (RED) Fund, and Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
Open Book Futures will follow the principles of ‘Scaling Small’ that guided the work of the COPIM project, further developing the infrastructures, business models, networks and resources that are needed to deliver a future for Open Access books led not by large commercial operations, but by communities of scholars, small-to-medium-sized publishers, not-for-profit infrastructure providers, and scholarly libraries.
Open Book Futures is supported by the Research England Development (RED) Fund, and Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
Layman's description
Open Book Futures will expand community-owned infrastructures for publishing open access books.
| Acronym | OBF |
|---|---|
| Status | Active |
| Effective start/end date | 1/05/23 → 30/04/26 |
Collaborative partners
- Coventry University
- Lancaster University (lead)
- Birkbeck, University of London
- Joint Information Systems Committee
- University of Cambridge
- Loughborough University
- Open Book Publishers
- Punctum Books
- Open Book Collective
- Thoth
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Experimental Book Publishing: Experimental Book Publishing: Tools, Practices, and Books to Promote the Publication of Experimental Scholarly Works
Janneke Adema (Speaker) & Simon Bowie (Speaker)
18 Mar 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Open Book Futures Matchmaking Workshop for Experimental Book Pilot Projects
Janneke Adema (Organiser), Simon Bowie (Organiser), Rebekka Kiesewetter (Organiser) & Julien McHardy (Organiser)
15 Jan 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Towards Sustainable Open Access Book Publishing in the African Context
Judith Fathallah (Organising Committee) & Joe Deville (Organising Committee)
7 Feb 2024 → 7 Sept 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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The Experimental Publishing Compendium
Adema, J., Bowie, S. & McHardy, J., 2023Research output: Practice-Based and Non-textual Research › Web publication/site
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The Open Book Collective: An Infrastructure for Equity and Diversity
Fathallah, J., 6 Sept 2023.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Open Access
Projects
- 1 Finished
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COPIM: Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs
Hall, G., Adema, J., Bowie, S., Fathallah, J., Hart, P., Kiesewetter, R., Mars, M., Moore, S., Antelman, K., Arias, J., Barnes, L., Barnes, M., Barnes, S. L., Bell, E., Cole, G., Corazza, F., Deville, J., Elfenbein, T., Eve, M. P., Ferwerda, E., Gatti, R., Gerakopoulou, E., van Gerven Oei, V., Grady, T., Higman, R., Holt, I., Joy, E. F. A., Keegan, M., McHardy, J., Miles, S., Morka, A., Penier, I., Rudmann, D., Snijder, R., Steiner, T., Stern, N., Stone, G., Tosi, A., Walker, D. & Wheatley, P.
1/11/19 → 30/04/23
Project: Research