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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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Activities
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Markdown, dive deep
Bowie, S. (Organising Committee), McHardy, J. (Organising Committee) & Smith, J. L. (Organising Committee)
23 May 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Opening the Unexpected: enabling experimentation through open access and open source
Bowie, S. (Speaker) & Sanders, K. (Speaker)
4 Sept 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Choosing Open Access for Books: An Author Journey
Fathallah, J. (Speaker)
25 Jun 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Collective funding models for open access books: Librarians' experiences and barriers to participation across six European contexts
Fathallah, J., Deville, J., Penier, I. & Corazza, F., 13 Oct 2025, Copim Open Book Futures project. 64 p.Research output: Book/Report › Project Report
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Choosing Open Access for Books
Fathallah, J., 10 Oct 2024.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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The Experimental Publishing Compendium
Adema, J. (Curator), Bowie, S. (Developer) & McHardy, J. (Curator), 2023Research output: Practice-Based and Non-textual Research › Web publication/site
Projects
- 1 Finished
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COPIM: Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs
Hall, G. (Principal Investigator), Adema, J. (Principal Investigator), Bowie, S. (Developer), Fathallah, J. (Researcher), Hart, P. (Researcher), Kiesewetter, R. (Researcher), Mars, M. (Researcher), Moore, S. (Researcher), Antelman, K. (Researcher), Arias, J. (Developer), Barnes, L. (Researcher), Barnes, M. (Researcher), Barnes, S. L. (Researcher), Bell, E. (Researcher), Cole, G. (Researcher), Corazza, F. (Researcher), Deville, J. (Researcher), Elfenbein, T. (Researcher), Eve, M. P. (Researcher), Ferwerda, E. (Researcher), Gatti, R. (Researcher), Gerakopoulou, E. (Researcher), van Gerven Oei, V. (Researcher), Grady, T. (Researcher), Higman, R. (Developer), Holt, I. (Researcher), Joy, E. F. A. (Researcher), Keegan, M. (Researcher), McHardy, J. (Researcher), Miles, S. (Researcher), Morka, A. (Researcher), Penier, I. (Researcher), Rudmann, D. (Researcher), Snijder, R. (Researcher), Steiner, T. (Researcher), Stern, N. (Researcher), Stone, G. (Researcher), Tosi, A. (Researcher), Walker, D. (Researcher) & Wheatley, P. (Researcher)
1/11/19 → 30/04/23
Project: Research