Copim’s Experimental Publishing Group Announces the Launch of Three Experimental Book Pilot Projects

Copim: A community working to build a fairer, more open future for scholarly books has just announced the launch of three experimental book publishing pilot projects.

1) Launch of Experimental Book Publishing Pilot Project ‘Servpub – A Collective Infrastructure to Serve and Publish’

The Open Book Futures (OBF) Experimental Publishing Group is pleased to announce the launch of ‘Servpub – A Collective Infrastructure to Serve and Publish’, one of three funded pilot projects resulting from OBF’s call for experimental book projects.

OBF’s aim with the pilot projects is to promote the publication of experimental books. To achieve this aim, OBF wants to foster sustainable communities of authors, publishers, developers, editors, reviewers, and open-source technology providers who engage in more experimental forms of book publishing. Our focus is specifically on the publishing process and on adapting academic publishers’ existing workflows and processes to accommodate better the multiple forms and formats academic long-form research can take. As part of the pilot projects, the Experimental Publishing Group works closely with the authors, presses, and technology providers to foster communities of practice that can support experimental book publishing. The pilots will further demonstrate and develop the possibilities of experimental scholarly publications thus helping to increase the recognition given to work published in non-traditional ways.

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2) Launch of Experimental Book Publishing Pilot Project ‘Deep Maps: Blue Humanities’

The Open Book Futures (OBF) Experimental Publishing Group is pleased to announce the launch of ‘Deep Maps’, one of three funded pilot projects resulting from OBF’s call for experimental book projects.

OBF’s aim with the pilot projects is to promote the publication of experimental books. To achieve this aim, OBF wants to foster sustainable communities of authors, publishers, developers, editors, reviewers, and open-source technology providers who engage in more experimental forms of book publishing. Our focus is specifically on the publishing process and on adapting academic publishers’ existing workflows and processes to accommodate better the multiple forms and formats academic long-form research can take. As part of the pilot projects, the Experimental Publishing Group works closely with the authors, presses, and technology providers to foster communities of practice that can support experimental book publishing. The pilots will further demonstrate and develop the possibilities of experimental scholarly publications thus helping to increase the recognition given to work published in non-traditional ways.

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3) Launch of Experimental Book Publishing Pilot Project ‘Database as Book’

The Open Book Futures (OBF) Experimental Publishing Group is very pleased to announce the launch of the ‘Database as Book’ experimental book pilot project, which is one of the three pilot projects that has been selected for funding out of OBF’s Call for Proposals for experimental book pilot projects.

The aim of these pilot projects is to promote the publication of experimental books. Through these pilot projects, OBF wants to foster sustainable communities of authors, publishers, developers, editors, reviewers, and open source technology providers that have an interest in engaging in more experimental forms of book publishing. Our focus is in specific on the publishing process itself and on adapting the existing workflows and processes of academic publishers to better accommodate the multiple forms and formats academic long-form research can take. For this reason the Experimental Publishing Group will work closely with the authors, presses, and technology providers involved in the pilot projects to create communities of practice and to explore how to best enable and support experimental book publishing together, while seeking to increase the recognition given to work published in non-traditional ways.

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