Thanks for sharing! That’s nice to read. Taking $15k as the average BPC and todays exchange rate it would pay for 483 OA books (if Google did the math right) . Libraries in the TOME initiative paid for 175 titles over the last five years, so COPIM funding is a significant step up. Best Michael ------------------------- Michael Ladisch Scholarly Communications Officer University of California Davis, Library 100 North West Quad Davis, CA 95616-5292 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> (530) 752-6385 From: Scholarly Communications CKG <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Timothy Vollmer <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Timothy Vollmer <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 9:28 AM To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [SCCKG] £5.8 million funding to significantly expand and accelerate COPIM open access infrastructures Just FYI--looks like a decent sized grant to support OA book publishing https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/open-book-futures-announcement/release/1 tim -- Timothy Vollmer Scholarly Communication & Copyright Librarian University of California, Berkeley Doe Library, 189 Annex Berkeley, CA 94720 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Pronouns: he/him