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Open Book Publishers (OBP)

Open Book Publishers (OBP) are an independent open access publisher of academic research in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK.

They are award-winning, not-for-profit, run by scholars, and committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers around the world. All their books can be accessed online or downloaded for free, with no Book Processing Charges (BPCs) for authors.

They recently received three nominations for the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards.

Lucy Barnes, senior editor and outreach coordinator at OBP, appeared on an episode of Research Talk* discussing the 'transformative world of open access monographs'. 

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*Research Talk is a podcast hosted by Jisc