About Open Access Book Publishing
Open Access monograph publishing, although still at a start-up phase, has existed for more than a decade. In 1996 the National Academies Press began experimenting by publishing books for free on its Web site, while, at the same time, charging a fee for the corresponding print editions. However, for several reasons, the last few years have witnessed an exponential increase in the number of presses and publishers experimenting with Open Access monograph publishing.
The rise and success of Open Access journals in scientific and biomedical fields has spread to the Humanities and Social Sciences, promising similar benefits in access and outreach for Open Access books. It has also become easier for publishers to experiment with digital publishing models with the advent of digital printing techniques and Open Source software for process management and publishing (such as PKP’s Open Journal Systems (OJS) or the forthcoming Open Monograph Publishing OMP). But perhaps most important is the increasing realization that the traditional book publishing model is no longer sustainable. A new approach is needed both to ensure the publication of academic books and to improve their accessibility and dissemination.
Overview of OA Book Publishers
In this inventory you can find publishers that have adopted or are experimenting with Open Access business models for monographs. This list also provides information about publishing and business models that are currently in use by publishers (OA policy or model). For more information about these and other potential business models for Open Access monographs please take a look at John Willinsky’s article on Monograph Funding (2008) and/or at the information collected in the OASIS sourcebook on Open Access.
This page will be updated regularly. Please inform us about other examples and send your comments to Janneke Adema [j.t.l.adema@hum.leidenuniv.nl].
Commercial Publishers
Bloomsbury Academic (About; OA policy or model)
O’Reilly’s (About; OA policy or model)
Polimetrica books (About; OA policy or model)
Re.press (About; OA policy or model)
University Presses
Amsterdam University Press (About; OA policy or model)
ANU E Press (About; OA policy or model)
Firenze University Press (About; OA policy or model)
Manchester University Press (About; OA policy or model)
Museum Tusculanum Press (About; OA policy or model)
Presses Universitaires de Lyon (About; OA policy or model)
The MIT Press (About; OA policy or model)
Rice University Press (About; OA policy or model)
Yale University Press (About; OA policy or model)
Presses established by or working with Libraries
Athabasca University Press (About; OA policy or model)
Internet-First University Press (About; OA policy or model)
Göttingen University Press (About; OA policy or model)
Leiden University Press (About; OA policy or model)
Newfound Press (About; OA Policy or model)
Ohio State University Press (About; OA policy or model)
Pennsylvania State University Press (About; OA policy or model)
Sydney University Press (About; OA policy or model)
The University of Michigan Press (About, OA policy or model)
The University of Pittsburgh Press (About; OA policy or model)
University of California Press (About; OA policy or model)
Presses established by Academies and Research Councils
ASSAF Academy of Sciences South Africa (About; OA policy or model)
HSRC Press (About; OA policy or model)
The National Academies Press (About; OA policy or model)
Presses established by Academics
Open Book Publishers (About; OA policy or model)
Open Humanities Press (About; OA policy or model)
Other
Gutenberg-e (About; OA policy or model)
Media Commons Press (About; OA policy or model)
Open Monograph Press (About; OA policy or model)
Literature overview
This page offers an extensive literature overview, consisting of articles, books, reports, and online resources that focus on Open Access monograph publishing in HSS.
This overview will be updated regularly. Please inform us about missing literature and send your comments to Janneke Adema [j.t.l.adema@hum.leidenuniv.nl].
Activities, costs and funding flows in the scholarly communications system in the UK,
Report commissioned by the Research Information Network (RIN) (May 2008).
http://www.rin.ac.uk/costs-funding-flows
Alenius, Marianne, ‘Open Access, University Presses, and Editorial Responsibility’, Paper delivered at The Workshop on Open Access in Denmark (April 2007).
http://www.mtp.hum.ku.dk/cgibin/PDFmedopenaccess/
Open_Access__Univer_0_0_9788763510868.pdf
Ayris, Paul, ‘The Future of Scholarly Publication’, PowerPoint delivered at a conference on copyright regulation in Europe (EU-wide conference on science- and education-friendly Copyright regulation in Europe) held on 14-15 November 2008 in Berlin.
http://www.ulb.ac.be/unica/sem-scholar.html
Bacon-Shone, J., E. Cheng, et al., ‘The Open Access Advantage’ (2008).
http://hub.hku.hk/handle/123456789/49851
Bargheer, M. and Schmidt, B., ‘Göttingen University Press: Publishing services in an Open Access environment’, in: Information Services and Use 28(2) (2008).
http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/ISU-2008-0569
Baruch, P. ‘Open access developments in France: the HAL Open Archives System’, in: Learned Publishing 20 (2007).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315107X239636
Bernius, Steffen, Hanauske, Matthias, König, Wolfgang, Dugall, Berndt, ‘Open Access Models and their Implications for the Players on the Scientific Publishing Market’, in: Economic Analysis & Policy, vol. 39 no.1 (March 2009).
http://ideas.repec.org/a/eap/articl/v39y2009i1p103-115.html
Boice, Kristin, Open Access, Libraries, and the Future of Scholarly Publishing (2008)
http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/2485/
Brown, Laura, Griffiths, Rebecca, and Rascoff, Matthew, Ithaka Report. University publishing in a digital age (2007).
http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/Ithaka%20University%20Publishing%20Report.pdf
Cockerill, Matthew, ‘Business models in open access publishing’, in: Open Access: key strategic, technical and economic aspects, Jacobs, N., (ed.) (Oxford 2006).
http://hdl.handle.net/2384/2367
Content Complete Ltd and Only Connect Consultancy, Study on the Management and Economic Impact of e‐Textbook Business Models on Publishers, e‐Book Aggregators and Higher Education Institutions: Phase One Report, JISC (Bristol 2009).
http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/wp-content/e-textbook-phase-1-report-public-version16-4-09.pdf
Cronin, Blaise, and La Barre, Kathryn , ‘Mickey Mouse and Milton: book publishing in the humanities’, in: Learned Publishing, Volume 17, Number 2, 1 April 2004.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315104322958463
Crow, Raym, Campus-based publishing partnerships: A guide to critical issues, SPARC (2009).
http://hdl.handle.net/2144/932
Crow, Raym, Income models for Open Access: an overview of current practice, SPARC (September 2009).
http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/incomemodels_v1.pdf
Esposito, Joseph J., ‘The Wisdom of Oz: The Role of the University Press in Scholarly Communications’, in: Journal of Electronic Publishing, vol. 10, no. 1, (Winter 2007).
http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0010.103
European Commission report, Study on the economic and technical evolution of the scientific publication markets in Europe (2005).
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publication-study_en.pdf
Friend, Frederick J., Open Access in the Humanities and social Sciences: A UK Perspective.
Greco, Albert N, Wharton, Robert Michael, ‘Should university presses adopt an open access [electronic publishing] business model for all of their scholarly books?’, in: ELPUB2008. Open Scholarship: Authority, Community, and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing held in Toronto, Canada 25-27 June 2008, Leslie Chan and Susanna Mornati ed..
http://elpub.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?149_elpub2008
Hall, Gary, ‘The Impact of the Humanities: or, What’s Next for Open Access’, Paper presented at: Berlin 5 Open Access: From Practice to Impact: Consequences of Knowledge Dissemination (2007).
http://openhumanitiespress.org/Hall_20-sept-2007_What%20next%20for%20humanities.pdf
Hall, Gary, Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
http://mlfonseca.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/hall-gary-digitize-this-book.pdf
Jakubowicz, A., ‘Bridging the Mire between E-Research and E-Publishing for Multimedia Digital Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences: An Australian Case Study’, in: Webology 4(1) (2007).
http://webology.ir/2007/v4n1/a38.html
Johnson, Richard K., ‘The Future of Scholarly Communication in the Humanities: Adaptation or Transformation?’ Paper delivered at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention (December 30, 2004).
http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/johnson_humanities_2004-2.pdf
Kennan, Mary Anne and Kautz, Karlheinz ‘Scholarly publishing and Open Access: searching for understanding of an emerging IS phenomenon’, in: Proceedings ECIS 2007 - The 15th European conference on Information Systems (St Gallen, Switzerland 2007).
http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1867/01/ECIS2007.schol.pub.reviewed.pdf
Lamb, Christine, ‘Open access publishing models: opportunity or threat to scholarly and academic publishers?’, in: Learned Publishing Volume 17, Number 2 (April 2004).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315104322958526
Heath, Malcolm, Jubb, Michael and Robey, David, ‘E-Publication and Open Access in the Arts and Humanities in the UK’, in: Ariadne, Issue 54 (January 2008).
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue54/heath-et-al/
Hougthon, John, Digital broadband content: scientific publishing, Report presented to the Working Party on the Information Economy in December 2004.
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/42/12/35393145.pdf
Hougthon, John, et. al, Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models - Exploring the costs and benefits, A report to the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (January 2009).
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/rpteconomicoapublishing.pdf
Hougthon, John, Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation (May 2009).
http://www.surffoundation.nl/SiteCollectionDocuments/Benefits%20of%20Research%20
Communication%20_April%202009_%20FINAL_logos2.pdf
Hougthon, John, Open Access – What are the economic benefits? A comparison of the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Denmark (June 2009).
http://knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=316
Jensen, Michael John, ‘Scholarly Publishing in the New Era of Scarcity’, Plenary presentation at the Association of American University Presses (Philadelphia 2009).
http://www.nap.edu/staff/mjensen/scarcity.html
Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook – Open Access Monographs
http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=348&Itemid=381
Pinfield, S., ‘A Wel(l)come development: research funders and open access’, in: Learned Publishing 19 (2006).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315106777877548
Steele, Colin, ‘Phoenix rising: new models for the research monograph?’, in: Learned Publishing, Vol. 16, no.2 (April 2003).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315103321505584
Steele, Colin, ‘Book to the future: 21st century models for the scholarly monograph’, paper delivered at Charleston Conference on Issues in Books and Serial Acquisition (2006).
http://hdl.handle.net/1885/43261
Steele, Colin, ‘Scholarly Monograph Publishing in the 21st Century: The Future More Than Ever Should Be an Open Book’, in: The Journal of Electronic Publishing, vol. 11, no. 2, (2008).
http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0011.201
Steele, Colin, The Future of the Academic Monograph? http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0509/msg00133.html
Unsworth, John M., ‘The Crisis in Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities’, in: ARL, no. 228 (June 2003).
http://www.arl.org/newsltr/228/crisis.html
Vandooren, Françoise and Gass, Cécile, ‘Giving new life to out-of-print books: when publishers’ and libraries’ interests meet’, in: Learned Publishing, vol. 2 1 no. 3 (July 2008).
http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/28/99/85/PDF/Article-LearnedPublishing-Vandooren-Gass-POSTPRINT.pdf
Waters, Lindsay, ‘The Tyranny of the Monograph and the Plight of the Publisher’, in: Publishing Research Quarterly (Fall 2001).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12109-001-0028-x
Waltham, Mary, JISC: Learned Society Open Access Business Models (June 2005).
http://www.marywaltham.com/JISCReport.pdf
Waltham, Mary, The Future of Scholarly Journals Publishing Among Social Science and Humanities Associations. Report on a study funded by a Planning Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (February 2009).
http://www.nhalliance.org/bm~doc/hssreport.pdf
Wellcome Trust, Costs and Business Models in Scientific Research Publishing. A
report commissioned by the Wellcome Trust, (2004).
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/corporatesite/
@policy_communications/documents/web_document/wtd003184.pdf
Williams, Peter, Stevenson, Iain, Nicholas, David, Watkinson, Anthony, Rowlands, Ian ‘The role and future of the monograph in arts and humanities research’, in: Aslib Proceedings, volume 61, issue 1 (2009).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00012530910932294
Willinksy, John, The Access Principle : The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (Cambridge, Mass. 2006).
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10611
Willinsky, John, Monograph funding (2008).
http://pkp.sfu.ca/files/Monograph%20Funding_0.doc
Zalta, Edward N., ‘A Funding Model for Open Access to a Humanities Publications’, Paper presented at: Scholarly Communication in the Humanities: Does Open Access Apply? (ALA June 2004).
http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/EZ_SEP.pdf