This report documents the work carried out by Copim's Open Book Futures (OBF) project from 1 May 2024-30 Apr 2025 (Year 2 of the 3-year project). The report was prepared by the Copim community in fulfillment of the OBF project's reporting requirements, and it was submitted to the project's funders (Research England Development (RED) Fund and Arcadia) on 29 May 2025. NB. This public version of the report has had confidential information redacted. For a shorter read, please consult this blog post summarising the report's contents: "Copim’s Open Book Futures: Progress Update". Report prepared by: Claire McGann (Project Manager) & Joe Deville (Principal Investigator) With contributions and approval from: Janneke Adema (Coventry University), Gareth Cole (Loughborough University), Jordy Findanis (DOAB), Rupert Gatti (Open Book Publishers & Trinity College, Cambridge), Tom Grady (Birkbeck University), Paola Marchionni (Jisc), Toby Steiner (Thoth), Vincent van Gerven Oei (punctum) For further information about the project, please don't hesitate to email us at: info@copim.ac.uk

The Open Book Futures project is co-funded by Arcadia and Research England Development (RED) Fund (UKRI). Arcadia is a charitable foundation that works to protect nature, preserve cultural heritage and promote open access to knowledge. Since 2002 Arcadia has awarded more than $1 billion to organizations around the world. Research England Development (RED) Fund (UKRI) is a fund supporting institutional-level innovative projects in research and knowledge exchange including collaborations between education providers and between education providers and business.