Research England awards £2.2m to project to improve and increase open access publishing - Research England

"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)...."