Scaling Small: Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books is the final conference of the COPIM Project.
COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) is a 3-year project led by Coventry University as part of an international partnership of researchers, universities, librarians, open access (OA) book publishers and infrastructure providers and is funded by The Research England Development Fund and Arcadia—a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. COPIM is building community-owned, open systems and infrastructures to enable OA book publishing to flourish, delivering significant improvements in the infrastructures used by OA book publishers and those publishers transitioning to OA. Through several interlinked work packages, the COPIM project addresses the key technological, structural, and organisational hurdles—around funding, production, dissemination, discovery, reuse, and archiving—that are standing in the way of the wider adoption and impact of OA books. COPIM will realign OA book publishing away from competing commercial service providers to a more horizontal and cooperative knowledge-sharing approach.
For more details on the project and an overview of the outputs generated across all of COPIM’s Work Packages, please make sure to visit
