[Commlist] COPIM final conference 'Scaling Small: Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books'

The Community-Led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs project 
(_COPIM_ <https://copim.ac.uk/>) is happy to announce its Final Conference,

*“Scaling Small: Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books”, *

which will take place online Thursday, April 20, 3.30-8.15pm (BST), and 
Friday, April 21, 3-7pm (BST). Sign up today!

More information, conference programme& registration 
via_https://scalingsmall.pubpub.org_ <https://scalingsmall.pubpub.org/>

The /Scaling Small/philosophy (see e.g. _Adema & Moore, 2021_ 
<https://doi.org/10.16997/wpcc.918>) that COPIM has been following 
throughout its project lifetime is explicitly and intentionally an 
alternative to large-scale, commercial approaches to academic 
publishing. This principle has guided COPIM’s main outcomes and 
objectives, and has supported us in building various models, systems, 
and platforms as part of our work to start removing the hurdles 
preventing new and existing open access book initiatives from adopting 
open access workflows.

In addition to creating the community-led governance structures, 
archiving and preservation best practices, and experimental book pilots 
and resources to support this, /Scaling Small/comes to the fore very 
clearly in three of COPIM’s main outputs: the _Open Book Collective_ 
<https://copim.pubpub.org/open-book-collective>(OBC), a UK charity 
governed by its members that brings together open access publishers, 
libraries, and publishing service providers to enable sustainable 
collective funding for open access books without charging authors; 
‘_Opening the Future_ <https://copim.pubpub.org/opening-the-future>’ 
(OtF), a revenue model which enables the transition of legacy publishers 
to OA by offering their closed access backlist to libraries via a 
subscription scheme, and using the revenue to fund new OA books; and 
_Thoth_ <https://copim.pubpub.org/thoth>, an open dissemination system 
that enables publishers to share their open access books much more 
widely, by easily creating high quality open metadata in a wide variety 
of formats.

As COPIM concludes, we hope to discuss and extend the organisational 
principle of /Scaling Small/in several ways, and with a variety of 
collaborators, while also thinking ahead about what our next steps will 
be in the future.


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