From: Gary Price <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 8:04 AM
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Source:
https://re.ukri.org/news-events-publications/news/re-awards-2-2m-to-project-to-improve-open-access-publishing/
"A new Research England funded project is set to help universities,
researchers, libraries and publishers to make more, and better, use of
open access book publishing. It will enable greater access to
world-leading research and increase its impact.
Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)
is a partnership led by Coventry University and also consisting of:
Birkbeck, University of London, Lancaster University and Trinity
College, Cambridge
The ScholarLed consortium of established open access presses (Open
Book Publishers, punctum books, Open Humanities Press, Mattering
Press, and meson press)
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Library and
Loughborough University Library
Infrastructure providers the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and
Jisc, and international membership organisation The Digital
Preservation Coalition (DPC)"
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"COPIM will transform open access book publishing by moving away from
a model of competing commercial operations to a more horizontal and
cooperative, knowledge-sharing approach. This will involve:
Improving and innovating in the infrastructures (business models,
preservation structures, and governance procedures) being used by open
access book publishers and by those publishers making a transition to
open access books
Enabling more productive collaborations between librarians,
publishers, researchers and others involved in the open access
landscape
Expanding opportunities by creating open source toolkits to develop
the skills necessary to run open access publishing operations."
Complete News Release:
https://re.ukri.org/news-events-publications/news/re-awards-2-2m-to-project-to-improve-open-access-publishing/
__gary
Gary D. Price, MLIS
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