Projects

Copim is a community of people, organisations, and infrastructures working towards equitable and sustainable open access for scholarly books. It takes a community-led and values-driven approach to these. It is also, from 2023-2026, a Research England and Arcadia-funded research project into this topic. It consists of numerous work packages about equitable OA funding, experimental publishing forms, metadata and archiving for OA books, and other topics. 

SeeFind out more: https://copim.ac.uk/#

The DIAMAS (Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication) project is an ongoing Horizon Europe funded initiative that aims to improve the efficiency and quality of Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing in Europe. It focuses on developing a European Reference Standard for institutional publishing and supporting Diamond OA publishers and service providers. 

This page below hosts links to a number of DIAMAS resources on Diamond OA publishing. While many are journal-specific, some are more generic and/or aimed at Diamond OA publishers more generally. Included are a series of high-level and in-depth articles about Diamond OA publishing, DOAS (the Diamond Open Access Standard), and its components. It also contains self-assessment tools, a glossary, and a number of resources on sustainability for publishers, service providers and funders. 

SeeVisit the resources: https://toolsuite.diamas.org/tools-and-resources 

The PALOMERA (Policy Alignment of Open access Monographs in the European Research Area) project, which ended in early 2025, aimed to ensure academic books and monographs are not neglected in Open Science and Open Access (OA) policies. Two of the main project outputs were a Knowledge Base of relevant ERA policies:

See:Find https://knowledgebase.oabooks-toolkit.org/communities/out more 

Subsequently, they created a set of actionable guidelines to support and coordinate funder and institutional policies for OA books, with the goal of speeding up the transition to OA for books in particular. 

See:View the actionable recommendations https://operas-eu.org/projects/palomera/results/recommendations-for-open-access-academic-book-policies/

Additionally, a collection of documents such as reports, policies, statistics, survey results and interview transcripts relevant to OA policies regarding OA books in the ERA, it is hosted on OAPEN’s website, and includes over 600 documents in various languages, open to anyone to browse and read. The Knowledge Base aims to help the community as a first step towards a better overview of what documents exist or are available.

See:View https://operas-eu.org/projects/palomera/the knowledge base

Towards an Open Monograph Ecosystem was a US-based project aimed at changing the way monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences is funded. 

It published a concluding report about the author experiences with the TOME project, and more general conclusions about how the groundwork with authors and universities would need to be built on by any subsequent projects. 

See:View https://www.arl.org/resources/tome-stakeholder-value-assessment-final-report/the report