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What Have We Done So Far?

  • held workshops and conversations with digital preservation experts 

  • spoken to open access presses about their preservation practices and ambitions 

  • spoken to digital preservation services about their offerings to smaller publishers 

  • been sharing knowledge with related projects and initiatives 

  • investigated the options of using Thoth Open Metadata  to automatically ingest metadata and files into an archiving or preservation system 

  • investigated manual and automated (API based) workflows for using institutional repositories as an archiving mechanism for OA presses 

  • Begun conversations on how Universities archive PhD theses 

Workshops

Accessibility, Archiving, and Open Metadata - A Copim Publishers’ Workshop, 27th November 2024 

Joint workshop between Work Packages 4, 5, and 7 

The Copim Open Book Futures project recently hosted an online workshop on 27 Nov 2024, looking into the interconnected worlds of metadata, archiving, and accessibility. This collaborative event brought together a diverse array of publishers including small, scholar-led, and university and library presses from the UK, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Netherlands, and the United States. 

Workshop Report: 

Steiner, T., Fitzpatrick, J., Barnes, M., Hillen, H., & Gatti, R. (2025). Accessibility, Archiving, and Open Metadata - A Copim Publishers’ Workshop. Copim. https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.a1803fe6 

 

 

Workshop on Copyright in the context of Archiving and Preservation of Open Access Books, 7th March 2023 

This invitation-only workshop comprised participants from various groups involved in the creation, publishing, and archiving of open access monographs. 

Topics covered include: 

  • Reuse permissions 

  • Licensing 

  • Third party content 

  • How licensing affects archiving 

  • Academic engagement 

  • “Fair use” / “fair dealing” in the context of OA monograph publishing 

  • Risk appetite & risk analysis for the small publisher 

  • Cost of licensing / financial element 

Workshop Report: 

Cole, G. (2023). Workshop on Copyright in the context of Archiving and Preservation of Open Access Books. Copim. https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.bbeefb58 

 

Thoth Archiving Network Workshop, 2nd November 2022 

Our Thoth Archiving Network workshop was held virtually on Tuesday, 2nd November 2022.  Around 30 invited participants attended, drawn from the UKCoRR (United Kingdom Council of Open Research and Repositories) community. The workshop plan was to outline our current work in archiving open access books and demonstrate the work we have done so far working with Thoth and Open Book Publishers. In addition, we wanted to ask UKCORR members if they would be willing to join the Thoth Archiving Network and, if not, what potential barriers exist in members not joining.  

Workshop Report: 

Barnes, M. (2023). Thoth Archiving Network Workshop, November 2022. Copim. https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.22f8d148 

 

COPIM Archiving and Preservation Workshop, 16th September 2020 

A joint workshop with COPIM and the DPC 

This was a scoping workshop, the first in a planned series, which aimed to bring together participants with expertise in web archives, research data, library repositories and scholarly publishing. The discussions fed into a Scoping Report (2022) on current best practice, and possible future developments, in preserving and archiving open access books. The workshop was organized around the following questions: 1) What are the challenges of archiving/preserving third-party material? and 2) How can we overcome them? 

Workshop Report:   
Bell, Emily. “COPIM Archiving and Preservation Workshop, September 2020.” Copim, Copim, Oct. 2020, doi:10.21428/785a6451.0e666456. 

Research Reports & Outputs

Barnes, M., Cole, G., Fry, J., Gatti, R., & Higman, R. (2023). 'Good, Better, Best': Practices in Archiving & Preserving Open Access Monographs (1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7876048 

Barnes, M., Bell, E., Cole, G., Fry, J., Gatti, R., & Stone, G. (2022). WP7 Scoping Report on Archiving and Preserving OA Monographs (1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6725309 

 

Blog Posts/Articles

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

Barnes, M., & Cole, G. (2024). Existing pathways to preservation: Archiving challenges for small publishers series. Copim. https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.a5d57088 

Barnes, M., & Cole, G. (2024). Metadata: Archiving challenges for small publishers series. Copim. https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.3041c8b7 

Barnes, M., & Cole, G. (2024). Link rot: Archiving challenges for small publishers series. Copim. https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.4ce69019 

Barnes, M., Cole, G., & Steiner, T. (2024). OBF Archiving and Preservation: End of Year 1 Reflections. Copim. https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.25dbafda 

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