Copim's Open Book Futures Project, Year 2 Report (1 May 2024-30 Apr 2025)

This report documents the work carried out by Copim's Open Book Futures (OBF) project from 1 May 2024-30 Apr 2025 (Year 2 of the 3-year project). The report was prepared by the Copim community in fulfillment of the OBF project's reporting requirements, and it was submitted to the project's funders (Research England Development (RED) Fund and Arcadia) on 29 May 2025.

NB. This public version of the report has had confidential information redacted. For a shorter read, please consult this blog post summarising the report's contents: "Copim’s Open Book Futures: Progress Update".

Report prepared by: Claire McGann (Project Manager) & Joe Deville (Principal Investigator)

With contributions and approval from: Janneke Adema (Coventry University), Gareth Cole (Loughborough University), Jordy Findanis (DOAB), Rupert Gatti (Open Book Publishers & Trinity College, Cambridge), Tom Grady (Birkbeck University), Paola Marchionni (Jisc), Toby Steiner (Thoth), Vincent van Gerven Oei (punctum)

For further information about the project, please don't hesitate to email us at: info@copim.ac.uk