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COPIM
The Copim community is an international group of researchers, universities, librarians, open access book publishers and infrastructure providers. It is building community-owned, open systems and infrastructures to enable open-access book publishing to flourish. The collaboration is being funded by Research England and Arcadia Fund, via two consecutive projects between November 2019 and April 2026. The community's name is derived from the original project acronym of COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs). During its first project phase (11/2019-04/2023), the community has been involved in the foundational project of the same name. As of 05/2023, this is now followed by a second project phase under the title of ''Open Book Futures'', through which the Copim community aims to expand and accelerate the uptake of the infrastructures developed during its initial project phase. Following the principle of 'Scaling Small', the project has developed a set o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open-access Monograph
An open-access monograph (open-access book or OA book) is a scholarly publication usually made openly available online with an open license. These books are freely accessible to the public, typically via the internet. They are part of the open access movement. Concept Open access is when academic research is made freely available online for anyone to read and re-use. As with open access journals, there are different business models for funding open-access books, including Article processing charge, publication charges, institutional support, library publishing, and consortium models. Some publishers, like OECD Publishing, uses a freemium model where the ebook version is made available for free, but readers have the option to purchase a print copy. Sales of the print version subsidise the cost of producing the book. There is some evidence that making electronic editions of books open access can increase sales of the print edition. History While open access to Journal article, journa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Access Monograph
An open-access monograph (open-access book or OA book) is a scholarly publication usually made openly available online with an open license. These books are freely accessible to the public, typically via the internet. They are part of the open access movement. Concept Open access is when academic research is made freely available online for anyone to read and re-use. As with open access journals, there are different business models for funding open-access books, including publication charges, institutional support, library publishing, and consortium models. Some publishers, like OECD Publishing, uses a freemium model where the ebook version is made available for free, but readers have the option to purchase a print copy. Sales of the print version subsidise the cost of producing the book. There is some evidence that making electronic editions of books open access can increase sales of the print edition. History While open access to journal articles has become very common, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Research England
Research England is a part of United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) that oversees the functions of UKRI in relation to university research and knowledge transfer in England. This includes: * providing funding to English universities for research and knowledge exchange activities * developing and implementing the Research Excellence Framework (REF) in partnership with the UK Higher Education funding bodies * developing the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) * overseeing the sustainability the Higher Education research base in England * managing the £900 million UK Research Partnership Investment Fund * administering the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) See also *Higher Education Funding Council for England The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) was a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom, which was responsible for the distribution of funding for higher education to universities and further education colleges in Engl ... * Research fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcadia Fund
The Arcadia Fund is a UK charity organization founded by Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. Established in 2001, the organisation provides grants on a worldwide basis focusing on numerous projects outside the UK. The primary focus of the organisation is to preserve endangered culture and nature and to provide open access. The organisation believes that "once memories, knowledge, skills, variety, and intricacy disappear – once the old complexities are lost – they are hard to replicate or replace" and consequently want to "build a vibrant, resilient, green future". Since 2002, the fund has provided more than $910 million in projects around the world. According to the OECD, the Arcadia Fund's financing for 2019 development increased by 6% to US$55 million. The foundation is controlled by its three trustees ( Lisbet Rausing, Peter Baldwin and Johannes Burger) and its team of nine members. The fund also has an advisory board of seven members. History Since its inception, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community-owned
Community-owned assets or organizations are those that are owned and controlled through some representative mechanisms that allow a community to influence their operation or use and to enjoy the benefits arising. Benefits of ownership in infrastructure projects such as dams and irrigation are claimed to include increased responsiveness to needs of that community and the community valuing the projects more highly. Community land buyouts Communities can sometimes buy the land they live on and manage them through locally-run trusts. There are many examples of this in Scotland including Eigg, Assynt and Ulva. Community-owned enterprises In Saranac Lake, New York, after the local Ames Department Store closed due to bankruptcy and residents were forced to travel to Plattsburgh for staples, the town was approached by Walmart which offered to build a supercenter, but the community felt that Walmart would negatively impact local business and increase traffic. As an alternative, a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Systems Architecture
Open systems architecture is a system design approach which aims to produce systems that are inherently interoperable and connectable without recourse to retrofit and redesign. Concept Systems design is a process of defining and engineering the architecture, methods, and interfaces necessary to accomplish a goal or fulfill a set of requirements. In open systems architecture, the design includes intentional provisions to make it possible to expand or modify the system at a later stage after initial operation. There is no one specific universal OSA, but it is essential the specific OSA applicable to a system is rigorously defined and documented. For example, in information technology and telecommunication, such design principles lead to open systems. Telecommunications In telecommunications, open systems architecture (OSA) is a standard that describes the layered hierarchical structure, configuration, or model of a communications or distributed data processing system. It enables s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Research And Innovation
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is a non-departmental public body of the Government of the United Kingdom that directs research and innovation funding, funded through the science budget of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. History and role Established on 1 April 2018 by the Higher Education and Research Act 2017, UKRI brought nine organisations into one unified body. UKRI was created following a report by Sir Paul Nurse, the President of the Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ..., who recommended the merger in order to increase integrative cross-disciplinary research. Working in partnership with universities, research organisations, businesses, charities, and government, its mission is to foster research and development within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thoth Open Metadata
Thoth (from , borrowed from , , the reflex of " eis like the ibis") is an ancient Egyptian deity. In art, he was often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon, animals sacred to him. His feminine counterpart was Seshat, and his wife was Maat. He was the god of the Moon, wisdom, knowledge, writing, hieroglyphs, science, magic, art and judgment. Thoth's chief temple was located in the city of Hermopolis ( , Egyptological pronunciation: Khemenu, ). Later known as in Egyptian Arabic, the Temple of Thoth was mostly destroyed before the beginning of the Christian era. Its very large pronaos was still standing in 1826, but was demolished and used as fill for the foundation of a sugar factory by the mid-19th century. Thoth played many vital and prominent roles in Egyptian mythology, such as maintaining the universe, and being one of the two deities (the other being Ma'at) who stood on either side of Ra's solar barque. In the later history of ancient Egypt, Thoth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revenue Model
A revenue model is a framework for generating financial income. There can be a variety of ways for revenue generation such as the production model, manufacturing model, as well as the construction model. A revenue model identifies which revenue source to pursue, what value to offer, how to price the value, and who pays for the value.Afuah, A. 2004. ''Business Models: A Strategic Management Approach''. New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, pp. 67-69 It is a key component of a company's business model. A revenue model primarily identifies what product or service will be created and sold in order to generate revenues. Without a clear and well-defined revenue model new businesses will be more likely to struggle. By having a clear revenue model, a business can focus on a target audience, fund development plans for a product or service, establish marketing plans, open a line of credit and raise capital. Types The type of revenue model that is available to a firm depends, in large part, on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subscription Business Model
The subscription business model is a business model in which a customer must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a product or service. The model was pioneered by publishers of books and periodicals in the 17th century. It is particularly common now for digital products, which lend themselves more naturally toward a subscription model. Subscriptions can be a more convenient, hassle-free transaction for consumers. However, due to inertia among some consumers, they may inadvertently pay for subscriptions that they no longer value because they do not realize that they are subscribed. Subscriptions Rather than selling products individually, a subscription offers periodic (daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, semi-annual, yearly/annual, or seasonal) use or access to a product or service, or, in the case of performance-oriented organizations such as opera companies, tickets to the entire run of some set number of (e.g., five to fifteen) scheduled performances fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CEU Press
The Central European University Press, commonly known as the CEU Press, abbreviated as CEUP, is an academic publisher with close connections to the Central European University. It is located in Budapest and New York City. Overview The CEU Press was established in 1993, following the establishment of the Central European University in 1991. Its language of publication is English. As of 2024, the CEU Press has 470 books available on JSTOR. The main topics of the CEU Press include political philosophy, open society, history, jurisprudence, nationalism studies, human rights, conflict resolution, gender studies, Jewish studies, economics, medieval studies, literature, and international relations. Originally, the regional focus of the CEU Press was the Central and Eastern Europe. Later, it expanded to the former Soviet Union countries and their neighbors, as well as the Arab and Islamic worlds. The CEU Press publishes the ''CEU Review of Books''. Since 2020, Frances Pinter has been t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liverpool University Press
Liverpool University Press (LUP), founded in 1899, is the third oldest university press in England after Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. As the press of the University of Liverpool, it specialises in modern languages, literatures, history, and visual culture and currently publishes more than 160 books a year, as well as 50 academic journals. LUP's books are distributed in North America by Longleaf. History One of the earliest heads of LUP was Lascelles Abercrombie, the first poetry lecturer at the university.. Across its history a number of distinguished scholars have published with the Press, including the Nobel Prize winner Ronald Ross and the literary critic Hermione Lee. In 2004, the Press was restructured, changing from a department of the University of Liverpool to a subsidiary. Alongside its academic publishing, LUP is known for the Pavilion Poetry imprint. Inaugural poet Mona Arshi's collection, ''Small Hands'', won The Felix Dennis Prize for B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
