How Long is a Tangled Web of String? | Copim community
flavoursofopenscience's bookmarks 2024-05-01
Summary:
by Kira Hopkins and Work Package 3
At Opening the Future (OtF), we are now comfortably into the back half of the Copim Open Book Futures project which began in 2020 with its first phase, and is due to end in April 2026. The question now arises - what happens then?
This is a question that itself splits into two, although with a lot of overlap between them:
What will happen at the presses that are currently working with us and have implemented OtF as part of their own funding plans? This currently concerns two publishers, CEU Press and Liverpool University Press, although this will have expanded to five by 2026.
What will happen to OtF, as separate from it being embedded into these presses?
This blog post tackles the latter question primarily (with other posts to follow that deal with the former) and must, itself, begin with yet another question that fundamentally underpins it and informs the answer: what actually is OtF now, and what will it be after April 2026?