Related Initiatives

COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) is an international partnership committed to building open, community-governed systems and infrastructures that support Open Access book publishing.

KU Research brings together researchers and practitioners from the publishing industry to help realize the possibilities of digital technology and Open Access for specialist scholarly books and the communities that care about them.

OPERAS seeks to coordinate university-led scholarly ­communication activities in Europe in SSH fields in order to make Open Science the standard practice.

Through this program, the NEH (together with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) works with university presses and other scholarly publishers to make out-of-print humanities books available in open access editions.

OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.

Through MIT Press Open, the MIT Press supports a variety of open access funding models for select books, including monographs, trade books, and textbooks.

Knowledge Unlatched (KU) works with libraries and publishers to transition monographs and journals in a wide variety of disciplines from paywalled to Open Access content.

The Sustainable History Monograph Pilot (SHMP) is a Mellon-funded initiative to publish open digital editions of high-quality books from university presses in the field of history.

Lever Press is a publisher of pathbreaking scholarship supported by a consortium of liberal arts institutions.