Open Access guide: OA Books

The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) provides a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an open access model, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.

"When publishing open-access books, we aim to ensure that equitable access to readers does not come at the cost of equitable access to publishing opportunities for authors."

MIT Press has been a leader in open access book publishing since 1995. It supports a variety of funding models for OA books.

OHP is an international open access publishing collective whose mission is to make leading works of contemporary critical thought freely available worldwide. All publications are peer-reviewed.

Ubiquity Press is a fully open access publisher. They publish both individual and series books, all fully peer reviewed, and also support other university presses with the transition to e-publishing.

Open Book Publishers is a non profit organization that publishes books in hardback, paperback, pdf and ebook editions, but they also include a free online edition that can be read via their website, downloaded, reused or embedded anywhere.

"punctum books is an independent open-access publisher dedicated to radically creative modes of intellectual inquiry and writing across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage."

Lever Press is a peer-reviewed, open access press that charges no fees to either authors or their institutions. Costs of publishing are covered collectively by all supporting institutions.

"Luminos is University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. With the same high standards for selection, peer review, production and marketing as our traditional program, Luminos is a transformative model, built as a partnership where costs and benefits are shared."

Language Science Press publishes high quality, peer-reviewed open-access books in linguistics. All publications are free for both authors and readers. (Currently the publication of a book in Language Science Press is free of charge to authors thanks to generous grants from sponsors.)

List maintained by the Radical Open Access Collective, a community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects.

Springer Nature has compiled this list of research funders and institutions worldwide that fund open access book processing charges (BPCs) and chapter processing charges (​​​​​​​CPCs).

"A charity bringing together publishers, publishing service providers, and scholarly libraries to secure the diversity and financial futures of open access book production and dissemination."

Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable open access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

"COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) is an international partnership of researchers, universities, librarians, open access book publishers and infrastructure providers. It is building community-owned, open systems and infrastructures to enable open access book publishing to flourish."

A multi-year pilot program designed to increase access to diverse ideas and research. It offers sustainable open access solutions, supports the nonprofit university press community, and invests in authors and their scholarship.

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