The OBF National Libraries Network: a summary of our first year | Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (Copim)

Barnes, M. (2024). The OBF National Libraries Network: a summary of our first year. Copim. https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.dd03d609

Beginning in September 2023, near the start of the Open Book Futures Project, we have held quarterly meetings with National Libraries who were interested in being part of the OBF’s National Libraries Network. The initial agenda was to introduce the National Libraries to the work of the COPIM Project and the new initiatives within Open Book Futures of which they could be part. We also enquired as to what potential bottlenecks there were within their institutions in archiving open access books, how open access books are ingested into the National Library systems, and what legal permissions or challenges exist when handling OA books within their Legal Deposit systems. We also began discussions around metadata and file ingestion policies and complications.

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