Seminar: Learnings from COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs)
Creating Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books by Scaling Small and Co-designing Governance (Janneke Adema)
The Scaling Small philosophy or organisational principle (see e.g. Adema and Moore, 2021 - www.westminsterpapers.org/article/id/918/) was developed as part of, and implemented by, the COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) project and community as an explicit and intentional alternative to large-scale, commercial approaches to academic publishing.
Scaling Small, is our term for an alternative way of envisaging a publishing and distribution ecosystem for open access books based on mutual reliance and other kinds of collaboration. In opposition to the dominant strategies of organisational growth for publishers, which flatten community diversity through economies of scaling ‘up’, Scaling Small is built on the idea that healthy growth of an ecosystem can be nurtured through intentional collaborations between community-driven projects. It aims to promote a bibliodiverse ecosystem while providing resilience through sharing of resources and knowledge, and other kinds of collaboration. This principle has guided COPIM’s community-led governance structures and supported its main outcomes and objectives focused on building models, systems, and platforms to remove the hurdles preventing new and existing open access book initiatives from adopting open access workflows.
In this talk Janneke Adema will explore how this principle and philosophy has been and is being implemented in practice in two outcomes of the COPIM project: the Open Book Collective and the Experimental Publishing Compendium.
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