💡 A collection of presentation slidedecks has been made available via COPIM’s Zenodo community, please find them at
COPIM final conference "Scaling Small: Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books": Presentation slidedecks. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7898815
3-4pm: Open Infrastructures
💡 Full panel recording available on the Internet Archive; individual contributions hosted via fair.tube and embedded below.
The established supply chain for scholarly books presents a major challenge for small or new OA publishers to thrive. Specialised title management systems, for instance, are difficult to access and many systems are not oriented to open access books. While some bigger publishers also face the difficulties of the system, they are better able to navigate the supply chain because they have dedicated staff, such as metadata specialists and marketing managers, who focus entirely on distribution. The COPIM Project has dedicated time and attention to this issue developing Thoth, a metadata management system, that aims to level the playing field between large and small publishers by alleviating some of the difficulties faced by scholar-led presses. This panel will discuss how open infrastructure fits in with small OA book publishers scaling small including perspectives from Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI) and the Books Analytics Dashboard (BAD), Public Knowledge Project/Open Monograph Press, and ScienceOpen.
Speakers: Lucy Montgomery (Curtin University/COKI/BAD), John Willinsky (Public Knowledge Project/Open Monograph Press), and Nina Tscheke (ScienceOpen).
Vincent van Gerven Oei: Introduction to Thoth Open Metadata
💡 Full panel video available on the Internet Archive; individual contributions hosted via fair.tube and embedded below.
In this session, COPIM’s Experimental Publishing working group will present what we, along with a plethora of partners and collaborators, have been doing over the last few years to support the publication of experimental books. As part of this presentation, we will showcase - and launch - one of the most exciting outcomes of our working group: the Experimental Publishing Compendium. The Compendium brings together texts, tools and practices that support new forms of book publication.
We will end the session by looking forward to the Open Book Futures project (following on from COPIM) with a call for experimental book pilot projects. Specifically, we will explain to publishers, authors and open source tool builders how they can apply to become one of the three experimental book pilots we will support in the coming years.
Speakers: Janneke Adema (Coventry University), Simon Bowie (Coventry University), Gary Hall (Open Humanities Press), Rebekka Kiesewetter (Coventry University), Julien McHardy (Mattering Press)
Julien McHardy & Simon Bowie: Experimental Publishing Compendium launch
Experimental Publishing group: Open Q and A
Experimental Publishing group: Introduction to WP6 Pilot Cases
Experimental Publishing group: Pre-call for Open Book Futures pilot cases
5.05-5:30pm: BREAK
5:30-6:30pm: Archiving & Preservation of Open Access Monographs: Challenges & the Way Forward
💡 Full panel video available on the Internet Archive; individual contributions hosted via fair.tube and embedded below.
While big players in monograph publishing have existing archiving and preservation solutions, the “long tail” of small and scholar-led open monograph presses are often left behind. If these presses ceased to operate, their important contribution to the scholarly record could be irrevocably lost. Work Package 7 of COPIM has been investigating creative and community-focused solutions to this problem, which has led to the creation of the Thoth Archiving Network, in collaboration with Work Package 5. Additionally, our scoping research, workshops, and forums have revealed a need for good practice guidance for presses, librarians, and academics surrounding the archiving and preservation of OA monographs. During our panel, invited experts in digital preservation, libraries, and repositories will examine the existing ecosystems and the way forward to solutions, including the development of the Thoth Archiving Network.
Speakers: Gareth Cole (facilitator), William Kilbride (DPC), Paul Stokes (Jisc), Nicola Dowson (UKCORR), Ian Cooke (British Library), Miranda Barnes (Loughborough University)
Gareth Cole: Introduction and overview of the Archiving & Preservation work package (WP7)
