Descriptions of publisher peer review policies

The OAPEN Library is quality controlled collection of OA books and chapters. To ensure a standard level of academic quality, OAPEN screens publishers who wish to join the library and provide open access publications to the collection.

Publishers or publishing entities (usually research institutes with their own publishing program) should be predominantly academic publishers. This means they should have proper and transparent peer review procedures for manuscripts and it should be clear which publications are peer reviewed. Reviewing should be conducted by independent peers and/or editorial boards, and editors (including series editors) should not act as reviewers.

For book publishing the procedures for peer review tend to vary across borders and publishing traditions. OAPEN does not rank these different procedures, but we do have minimum requirements and upon joining OAPEN, publishers are required to describe their peer review procedures to be made available publicly on the OAPEN website. This transparency ensures and promotes high quality academic standards.

Below you will find a list of publishers and descriptions of their peer review procedures in alphabetical order: