Opening the Future: A New Model for Funding Open Access Monographs

We outline the work of two university presses, with assistance from Community-led Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) Project, in creating an innovative revenue model to fund Open Access (OA) monographs at a traditional publisher. Building on library journal subscription models and Knowledge Unlatched's approach monograph funding, this OA publishing (called “Opening Future”) gives members special access backlist, then used make frontlist openly accessible. also examine general landscape funding discuss some challenges benefits.