Gary Hall and Janneke Adema, in an [interview for Open Insights](https://www.openlibhums.org/news/356/) on their [Community-led Open Publicaiton Infrastructure for Monographs](https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/3x691fzn) project ([funded by Research England](https://re.ukri.org/news-opinions-events/news/re-awards-2-2m-to-project-to-improve-open-access-publishing/)):
> COPIM is working towards the creation of a collaborative rather than competitive ecosystem. It will be a collaborative ecosystem that, together with stimulating innovation in infrastructures, workflows and digital knowledge production, will support not-for-profit organisations involved in OA book publishing to scale in a horizontal manner by building alliances with other not-for-profit players—including presses, libraries and universities. All those with a shared interest in the public value of knowledge, in other words.
The focus on a scholar-led, library-partnered nonprofit infrastructure is exciting—and well-timed given the draft plans to require [UK-supported monographs, book chapters, and edited collections be open by 2024](https://eve.gd/2020/02/13/key-points-from-the-ukri-open-access-review-consultation-document/). The key will be the actual models and shared infrastructure that the group develops. Hall and Adema refer, enticingly, to
> knowledge transfer to the community through the various pilots we will be running around funding, business models, open disseminations systems, experimental publishing and the reuse and archiving of multimodal books.