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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 

  • Shared 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 

Presentations

Poster Presentation, Miranda Barnes, ‘Transparency through community-led open infrastructure: a pathway to trust’, UK DARIAH Day, University of Leeds, UK, September 2024. https://zenodo.org/records/10608700 (Poster by Toby Steiner) 

Presentation: Miranda Barnes, ‘Thoth Archiving Network: How institutional repositories can become involved in preserving long-form scholarship’, Open Repositories Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 2024. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12579528 

Poster Presentation: Miranda Barnes, ‘Transparency through community-led open infrastructure: a pathway to trust’, Poster presentation, 18th International Digital Curation Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, February 2024. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10608700 (Poster by Toby Steiner) 

Presentation: Miranda Barnes, ‘Looking to a more equitable future: the institutional repository as digital monograph archive for the small and scholar-led press’, UKCoRR Members Day 2023, Online, November 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10123353 

Presentation: Miranda Barnes, Gareth Cole, Toby Steiner; ‘Thoth Archiving Network: Supporting small and scholar-led publishers with repository-led preservation of OA Books’, The 18th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing (virtually), Tromsø, Norway and online, November 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10089533 

Panel contribution: Joe Deville, Martin Eve, Rupert Gatti, Miranda Barnes; Open Access Book Infrastructures, Panel contribution, IPSA (International Political Science Association) Conference: ‘Open Access Publishing: A New Era in Scholarly Communication’, Online, September 2022. https://www.ipsa.org/events/open-access 

Panel Presentation: Miranda Barnes, ‘How can bringing together the workflows of publishing and preservation lead to better, longer-term solutions that benefit both?: A panel with COPIM Work Package 7, the Embedding Preservability in New Forms of Scholarship Project (NYU), and Project JASPER’, with Karen Hanson & Dr Alicia Wise, iPres: 18th Annual Conference on Digital Preservation, Glasgow, Scotland, September 2022. Conference proceedings: https://www.dpconline.org/docs/miscellaneous/events/2022-events/2791-ipres-2022-proceedings/file 

Group Presentation: Miranda Barnes, ‘Archiving & preservation of open access scholar-led press monographs’, Group conference contribution: ‘COPIM @ SCURL’, SCURL Annual Conference 2022, Online, June 2022. Part of larger presentation with Rupert Gatti, Joe Deville, and Martin Paul Eve. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6644949 

Presentation: ‘Long-term preservation and reusability of open access scholar-led monographs’, 17th International Digital Curation Conference, Online, June 2022. https://www.dcc.ac.uk/idcc22/programme 

Panel contribution, ‘Archiving and Digital Preservation’, NISO+2022 Conference: Global Conversations, Global Connections, February 2022.  

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