Interesting things are happening in the world of long-form open access!
Two substantial reports have appeared within days of each other, both exploring different dimensions of the future of open access books.
📚 The new Open Book Futures Final Project Report from COPIM documents some remarkable achievements in developing community-led infrastructure, sustainable funding models and new approaches to OA book publishing.
📚 Advancing Long-form Open Access Practice: Part One – Ambition, Capacity, and Practice in 2026, commissioned from Information Power by RLUK, SCONUL and ARMA with funding from UKRI, takes a broader look at the UK landscape, exploring institutional ambitions, current capacity and the challenges that remain.
Together, these reports make for fascinating reading. They demonstrate both how far the sector has come and how much more there is to do.
The question now is how to build on this progress and make open access for scholarly books a sustainable, mainstream reality.
Both are well worth a read!
Advancing Long-form Open Access Practice: Part One – Ambition, Capacity, and Practice in 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23536984
Advancing Long-form Open Access Practice: Part two – Qualitative Research: Focus Groups, Survey, and Recommendations https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23538659
Open Book Futures: https://zenodo.org/records/23817294
#OpenAccess #LongformOA #OpenBooks #ScholarlyPublishing
