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If not already, including accessibility requirements within author submission guidelines is recommended, and even if this is already something in place, then this guidance can help optimise the advice you give to authors. Authors are often the best person to h...

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...

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) 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...

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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 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) 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...

'Read the testimonials below to hear from some of our authors, and from journals who have commented on our work as a press. You can also find reviews and testimonials for individual books on their home page via the catalogue.' Visit the Open Book Publishers t...

Bloomsbury Academic began as an OA book publisher in 2008. Their Open Access at Bloomsbury webpage includes information about: How to publish your book open access with Bloomsbury ('gold OA') Community engagement Open access partnerships Open access: a g...

University of London Press have developed a new online training course on open access publishing with the School of Advanced Study. The course is free and available via the School’s RESHAPED platform – a new training and research community space for researcher...

punctum books is an independent, scholar-led, non-profit, open access publisher. It was founded in 2011, and was also an early adopter of library memberships (in 2018) to support author equity. They publish in all subjects across AHSS, and support authors taki...

Berlin University Publishing | Should I publish my book open access? Berlin Universities Press share the benefits of publishing a book open access. Bristol University Press | Why publish open access?‬  Bristol University Press share the benefits of publishi...

The ScholarLed consortium is made up of scholar-led, not-for-profit, open access publishers. It was founded in 2018 and sought ways for small-scale, scholar-led presses to grow and flourish together, by finding co-operative systems and practices to work togeth...

Accessibility FAQ for Books at JSTOR Publishers

Submission Accessibility Guidelines at JSTOR Publishers