03. Author Success Stories
As open access (OA) book publishing has begun to flourish, many publishers and institutional libraries have created testimonials from the authors of these books. These testimonials cover a wide variety of aspects of OA publishing; some describe how and why an author decided to publish OA, some talk about the editorial and production process in general, and others outline what the benefit of OA has been from the author’s perspective.
We acknowledge that there has been a historical wariness from some authors to publish their work openly and so we wanted to collate as many of these author experiences with OA publishing as we could. We felt that creating a trove of evidence to counter common author concerns would be helpful, and particularly meaningful coming from other authors rather than, for example, publishers.
The format is simple: The headings below indicate what institution the authors’ stories were disseminated by. Each section provides a quotation from the resource (adapted where necessary for clarity and sense, e.g. changing something from first to third person). The resource is then linked below.
If you want to recommend more author success stories for inclusion in this section, please contact us at info@copim.ac.uk.
Bloomsbury
"Authors from our African Studies and International Development lists, Odilile Ayodele, James B. ...
Boydell & Brewer
"In Spring 2023 we launched Boydell & Brewer Open Access, to make it easy for readers to browse a...
Lancaster University
"This section gathers the author testimonies and case studies located throughout this resource in...
OAPEN OA Books Toolkit
"This collection of case studies features a group of authors who explain in their own words how o...
Open Access Books Network (OABN)
"The OA Mythbusters’ series was launched for 2021 Open Access Week. Through this video series the...
Opening the Future
In this section, you can read testimonial from authors whose books were published open access, th...
Scottish Universities Press (SUP)
"Breaking down borders between academia and the rest of the world: A conversation with Tim Ingold...
Springer Nature
"Discover what some of our open access book authors and editors have to say about publishing an o...
TOME - Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem
"TOME brings together scholars, universities, libraries, and presses in pursuit of a common goal—...
UK Research and Innovation - Open Research
"UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) supports and champions open research because open research enh...
University of Essex
The University of Essex website provides a dedicated Q&A on OA publication section with authors r...
University of London Press
"At the University of London Press, we have been reflecting on recent conversations in the sector...
University of Oxford
"There are as many journeys to open access as there are researchers and books - below are the jou...
University of Sheffield
"In this series of case studies, researchers from the University of Sheffield explore their exper...
Additional testimonials
In this section you can access additional blogposts, podcasts and videos in which authors and ope...