“Time flies when you’re having fun ...” Reflections on the first year of Open Book Futures | Copim
flavoursofopenscience's bookmarks 2024-07-03
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by Anna Hughes
It seems only yesterday that we were looking back on the achievements of the COPIM project (2019–2023) while also casting a look ahead to the next exciting project phase. But the Copim Open Book Futures (OBF) project has been running for over a year already! Funded by Arcadia and the Research England Development (RED) Fund, OBF is building upon the pioneering work of the original COPIM project. Reuniting many of the COPIM project partners, while also bringing in new partners from around the world, OBF aims to deepen COPIM’s long-term impact and to make sure a wider range of voices have the opportunity to shape the future of open access book publishing.
A full annual report on our activities in Year 1 is available to read via Zenodo, but we wanted to use this post to provide a summary, and to look back at all that we have achieved in Year 1 of the project before looking forward to Year 2.