This website was designed by Simon Bowie. It uses the Hugo static site generator and served through the NGINX web server. Non-English language translations are provided by LibreTranslate, a free and open source machine translation API, using a script for batch translation of Markdown files developed by Simon Bowie.

The Hugo theme is Inate which combines the Hugo themes Introduction designed by Victoria Drake and Slate designed by Gus Esquivel. Thanks to both designers for sharing and openly licensing their work.

The site and Gitea repository are hosted on an Ubuntu 22.04.3 server hosted by Coventry University Digital Services.

All content on the site is © 2023–2024 Copim and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Copim (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) is an international partnership of researchers, universities, librarians, open access book publishers and infrastructure providers. This privacy policy explains how our project uses the data we collect from you when you use our website.

Data

What data do we collect?

Copim deliberately minimises the amount of information we collect for users of our website. We keep a minimal amount of non-identifying information for the purpose of tracking web analytics.

We currently collect and process the following information for each user of our website:

• anonymized IP address from which they accessed the site
• approximate geolocation based on the IP address
• operating system and web browser used to access the site
• date and time that the user accessed the site
• which site referred the user to the site
• which pages on the site the user accessed

How do we store your data?

Your data is gathered by NGINX web server access logs and are automatically passed to GoAccess for analysis. All your information is securely stored on our virtual server hosted by Coventry University Digital Services.

We keep anonymized IP address data for two months. We then dispose of your information by automatically removing IP address data from our logs using the ipv6loganon utility in the ipv6calc package.

How will we use your data?

Your anonymized data will only be used in aggregate to draw usage trends of our website in order to report to our funders. These analytics may be shared with the Research England Development (RED) Fund and Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.

Cookies

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.

The Copim website does not store any first- or third-party cookies on your computer.

How to manage cookies

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and allaboutcookies.org tells you how to remove cookies from your browser.

General

Privacy policies of other websites

The Copim website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Changes to our privacy policy

Copim keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 18 September 2023.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about Copim privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Initially formed around the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs [COPIM] project (2019–2023), the Copim community continues to grow and develop through its work on the Open Book Futures project (2023–2026) and its wider activities.

View a list of the organisations and people who make up the Copim community: https://copim.pubpub.org/copim-community-who-we-are

Read more about our shared values: https://copim.pubpub.org/copim-community-our-values

Learn more about the Copim community in this helpful introductory blog post by Lucy Barnes: https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/introducing-open-book-futures-a-copim-community-project/

The Copim community research projects—COPIM and Open Book Futures—were both made possible thanks to grants from the following funders:

Arcadia – Arcadia is a charitable foundation that works to protect nature, preserve cultural heritage and promote open access to knowledge. Since 2002 Arcadia has awarded more than $1 billion to organizations around the world.

Research England Development (RED) Fund (UKRI) – a fund supporting institutional-level innovative projects in research and knowledge exchange including collaborations between education providers and between education providers and business.

Open Book Futures (2023–2026)

The Open Book Futures project launched in May 2023 and is set to run until April 2026. The project is funded by the Research England Development (RED) Fund and Arcadia. The research project builds upon the pioneering work of the COPIM project (2019–2023) and is led by Lancaster University. Open Book Futures aims to initiate a step-change in the ambition, scope and impact of community-led Open Access book publishing.

Find out more on our PubPub open documentation site: https://copim.pubpub.org/open-book-futures-project

COPIM (2019–2023)

The COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) research project ran from November 2019 to April 2023, and was funded by the Research England Development (RED) Fund and Arcadia. The project formed an international partnership of researchers, universities, librarians, open access publishers and infrastructure providers, all united by a desire to enable open access book publishing to flourish.

You can learn more about the COPIM project via its archived project website: https://archive.copim.ac.uk/

You can also read the final COPIM project report here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7961527

Open Book Collective

The Open Book Collective enables libraries and other institutions to financially support open access initiatives via its Membership Programmes. Find out more at: https://openbookcollective.org/

Thoth Open Metadata

Thoth is an open metadata management and dissemination platform, and a non-profit CIC registered in the UK. Find out more at: https://thoth.pub/

Opening the Future

Opening the Future is a new funding model for Open Access books, currently adopted by two University Presses, with more presses to come. Find out more at: https://openingthefuture.net/

PubPub

Copim uses PubPub for our main documentation and updates site. Our open documentation is intended to provide discoverable and reusable insight into the development of community-owed infrastructure for the publication of open access books.

Zenodo

Our community collection on Zenodo serves as a hub for official outputs generated by the Copim community, including reports and presentations.

GitHub

Copim believes that open access and open source are interconnected and has made all the software created during its various projects open source licensed. Our GitHub repositories contain these various tools and scripts including our Hugo website and themes, the Docker Compose config for our main applications server, various backup scripts and custom software for experimental publishing.

Toolkit for Small and Scholar-Led Open Access Publishers

The Toolkit for Small and Scholar-Led Open Access Publishers s a resource to help people who want to set up such a press or existing publishers wanting to improve the way they operate. It is published and maintained by the Open Book Collective and was launched in May 2023.

Experimental Publishing Compendium

The Experimental Publishing Compendium is a guide and reference for scholars, publishers, developers, librarians and designers who want to challenge, push and redefine the shape, form and rationale of scholarly books. The compendium brings together tools, practices and books to promote the publication of experimental scholarly works.

Opening the Future: How to Implement an Equitable Revenue Model for Open Access Monographs

The Opening the Future model presents a potential route for the mass and sustainable transition to OA of many small-to-mid sized university presses. Liverpool University Press and Central European University Press are both successfully running the programme and as of the end of the first phase of COPIM had together accrued enough library funding to produce 20+ new OA monographs with many more in the pipeline. Opening the Future continues to grow with both publishers. One of the final deliverables for Work Package 3 was to produce a toolkit report which outlines, in detail, exactly how we implemented this model, including the documentation of challenges, resources, timetables, and activities. This toolkit report can be read and downloaded at DOI 10.5281/zenodo.7003979.

GitHub

Copim believes that open access and open source are interconnected and has made all the software created during its various projects open source licensed. Our GitHub repositories contain these various tools and scripts including our Hugo website and themes, the Docker Compose config for our main applications server, various backup scripts and custom software for experimental publishing.

Thoth’s code is also open source with GitHub repositories at https://github.com/thoth-pub/.

Thoth Open Metadata

Thoth is an open metadata management and dissemination platform, and a non-profit CIC registered in the UK. Find out more at: https://thoth.pub/

Experimental Publishing Compendium

The Experimental Publishing Compendium is a guide and reference for scholars, publishers, developers, librarians, and designers who want to challenge, push and redefine the shape, form and rationale of scholarly books. The compendium brings together tools, practices, and books to promote the publication of experimental scholarly works.