Open Book Futures

DOAB

Full Project Title, acronym and URL

Project Dates and duration

May 2023 - April 2026, 3 years

Short Description of the project

Open Book Futures (OBF) supports community-led, scholar-led, not-for-profit open access book publishing by developing and scaling infrastructure, tools and business models. Key goals include improving metadata, archiving, accessibility and multilingual support; incubating OA book projects; and fostering global bibliodiversity. Core initiatives include the Open Book Collective, Thoth Open Metadata, the Opening the Future model and the information resource Copim Compass, designed to promote OA book publishing best practices.

Short Description of what OAPEN is doing on the project

DOAB is supporting Open Book Futures in pushing forward a richer, more equitable, resilient OA book ecosystem - with better tools, models, infrastructure, outreach, and financial support for smaller and diverse presses. DOAB is playing a critical role through its network - specifically supporting with project-wide outreach, particularly WP2, WP3, WP4 through collaborative initiatives and events, fairs, conferences, joint workshops and webinars (incl. via communication - blog posts and other write-ups). DOAB also supports work on the Copim Compass and accessibility (WP5) - assisting with research into legislation and through publisher consultations.

Link to sign-up email for the project and/or socials

https://copim.pubpub.org/open-book-futures-project

Contact details at OAPEN

Jordy Findanis: j.findanis[@]oapen.org

Funder statement

The project is funded by Arcadia and the Research England Development (RED) Fund.