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
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Michael Ladisch
Scholarly Communications Officer
University of California Davis, Library
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Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 9:28 AM
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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
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Timothy Vollmer
Scholarly Communication & Copyright Librarian
University of California, Berkeley
Doe Library, 189 Annex
Berkeley, CA 94720
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