Vacancy for Project Manager: Open Access Publishing at Lancaster University

Vacancy for Project Manager: Open Access Publishing at Lancaster University

5 December 2025

Lancaster, UK

Fixed Term

This is a 3-month, part-time maternity cover appointment, to support the Copim Open Book Futures project, a major international, multi-institutional project led by Lancaster University and focused on developing infrastructures and practices to underpin the expansion of open access (OA) academic book publishing. The project builds on the pioneering work of the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM ) project. These two projects have had a major impact on the field of open access publishing, including launching initiatives such as the Open Book Collective , Thoth Open Metadata , the Opening the Future revenue model, as well as work to enhance ebook accessibility and the archiving and preservation of open access works, and exploring new approaches to experimental open ...