COPIM

Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)
Commercial?No
Type of projectInternational Partnership
Established2019
Launched2019-11
Funding
  • £3.6M (£2,202,947 Research England, £800,000 Arcadia Fund, £576,537 partners’ own contributions) for the 1st project phase (2019-23)
  • > £5.8M (£2,288,772.38 Research England, £2,858,000 Arcadia Fund, £736,011.91 partners’ own contributions) for the 2nd project phase (2023-2026).
Websitecopim.ac.uk

The Copim community is an international group of researchers, universities, librarians, open access book publishers and infrastructure providers. It is building community-owned, open systems and infrastructures to enable open-access book publishing to flourish. The collaboration is being funded by Research England and Arcadia Fund, via two consecutive projects between November 2019 and April 2026.

The community's name is derived from the original project acronym of COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs). During its first project phase (11/2019-04/2023), the community has been involved in the foundational project of the same name. As of 05/2023, this is now followed by a second project phase under the title of Open Book Futures, through which the Copim community aims to expand and accelerate the uptake of the infrastructures developed during its initial project phase.

Following the principle of 'Scaling Small', the project has developed a set of proof-of-concepts of non-profit and community-owned, open infrastructures to enable open access book publishing to prosper.

Copim has been named as a Supporting Action in UKRI's 2020 Open Access Review Consultation.

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