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Supporting learned society, subject association, and smaller specialist publishers to transition to open access book publishing
This report, the result of a collaboration between UKRI, ALPSP, the British Academy, OASPA and Information Power, was published in 2025. It was produced in the context of the UKRI OA policy change in 2024 that longform publications of UKRI-funded research wer...
TOME Report: The Cost to Publish TOME Monographs
A study of the costs incurred by US university presses in publishing scholarly monographs as part of the TOME pilot project. It is very focussed on US institutional publishing, with extremely high costs that do not necessarily map onto those in the UK and else...
TOME Stakeholder Value Assessment: Final Report
The concluding report about the author experiences with the TOME project, and more general conclusions about how the groundwork with authors and universities would need to be built on by any subsequent projects. Read the report
University of London Press
"At the University of London Press, we have been reflecting on recent conversations in the sector about research culture, what this means for the humanities, the potential benefits of open access, the role of publishing and our own role as a publisher." Prof...
Irish Open Access Publishers (IOAP)
IOAP is an initiative founded by Irish libraries in 2021 to strengthen Diamond OA publishing in the region. It provides a community of practice primarily for library-based and institutional publishers, providing a forum for them to share knowledge and experien...
TOME - Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem
"TOME brings together scholars, universities, libraries, and presses in pursuit of a common goal—a sustainable open monograph ecosystem." Visit the TOME website to read the author testimonials
Additional testimonials
In this section you can access additional blogposts, podcasts and videos in which authors and open access practitioners discuss and reflect on publishing open access. In this episode of the Jisc podcast Research Talk, Dr. Joe Deville, senior lecturer at Lanc...
Opening the Future
In this section, you can read testimonial from authors whose books were published open access, thanks to funding provided by Copim’s collective library funding model, “Opening the Future”. Peter Watson Peter Watson, Teaching Fellow at the University of Lee...
Report from a workshop on sustainable open access book publishing in East Africa
In October 2024, a collaborative online-session for publishers from East Africa was co-organised by the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), OAPEN, the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) and French research institutes in Africa, Les Afrique...
Open Book Collective in action: A fair and sustainable future for books
The Open Book Collective (OBC) brings together publishers, publishing service providers, and scholarly libraries to secure the diversity and financial futures of open access book production and dissemination. Watch this video (created by Couch Fire Films and...
Open Access Books Network (OABN): Publisher spotlight
A series of blog posts by publishers, talking about the platforms they use to publish their open access books. Read their stories on the Open Access Books Network (OABN) website ‘The Case for PubPub’ by Jeff Pooley ‘Setting up an Institutional Op...
Scottish Universities Press (SUP)
Scottish Universities Press (SUP) released its first two OA book titles in 2024, marking a significant milestone in Scotland’s academic publishing landscape. They have also unveiled a new open access textbook programme. Scottish Universities Press: Looking ba...
Jisc | How smaller publishers are adapting and responding to the open access landscape
Opinion piece from Jisc with sector views on how smaller presses should (and can) pivot to OA following UKRI’s open access (OA) policy for longform. Read the blog
University of London Press (UoL)
The University of London (UoL) Press authors share their own publishing experiences and words of advice and support for new authors, along with their views on open access and what more publishers can do to work with the research community to help build support...
University of Michigan Press
Michigan Publishing publishes scholarly and educational materials in a range of formats. Since spring 2021, the University of Michigan Press has been transitioning to an open access monograph model termed Fund to Mission. They have shared Stories of Impact o...
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Engaging Monograph Authors in the Open Access Movement The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Open Access Book Prizes reward exceptional humanistic scholarship that has been published openly, demonstrating its relevance within and beyond academia. T...
Lever Press
Lever Press is a press governed by its participating members. An Editorial Board, composed of faculty from participating institutions, oversees the editorial and review process for their titles; an elected Oversight Committee, composed of representatives of pa...
Open Book Futures Project: An interview with Claire McGann
Dr. Claire McGann, project manager for the Open Book Futures project, joins the Lancaster University Library podcast - Talking around the library tree - to discuss the Open Book Futures project, which aims to initiate a step-change in the ambition, scope and i...
LSE Press
LSE Press is a non-profit, open access publisher of the social sciences. Find out more about their publications and what people have been saying about them: A year in the life of a book piece on How Africa Trades BCA African Business Book of the Year...
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 t...