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.

[2] The community's name is derived from the original project acronym of COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs).

In order to amplify bibliodiverse and equitable community-led approaches to OA book publishing, OBF aims not just to strengthen existing networks in the UK and North America, but also to engage further with publishers, universities, and infrastructure providers in a diverse set of national and linguistic contexts, including Africa, Australasia, Continental Europe, and Latin America.

The generated membership revenue is used by the publisher solely to produce new Open access monographs.