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How Opening the Future actually works is very simple, on both the publisher and the library side. It is a revenue model for open access monographs in which a press solicits a relatively small financial contribution from a moderate number of academic libraries,...

Copim Compass is an online information hub developed by Copim's Open Book Futures project (2023-2026).

This section provides the detailed financial modelling spreadsheets and other tools that our participating presses have used, in order for you to make your own calculations. 

In order to implement Opening the Future on a day to day level, several organisational partnerships, website updates, workflows, and other BAU activities will be necessary. This section provides information about the workflows for using Opening the Future, inc...

Libraries are a vital and omnipresent part of open access publishing. Institutional publishing, generally in the form of university presses, is one major facet of this. Beyond that, libraries are the primary funder of collective open access funding; they provi...

In many ways the open access (OA) books landscape has exploded in the last few years, with increasing numbers of OA initiatives, open infrastructures, policies, best practice guidelines, explanatory guides, how-to toolkits for OA publishing, and many more. Eve...

Open Access is reshaping the future of scholarly book publishing, offering new opportunities for publishers to expand reach, enhance impact, and support equitable access to knowledge. The last ten years or so have seen a florescence of ‘born’ OA publishers. Th...