Open Access: 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.

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.

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

"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.)

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.

Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) seeks to address the funding model problem by moving us toward a new, more sustainable system in which monograph publishing costs are met by institutionally funded faculty book subsidies. This is a 5 year pilot ending in 2022.

"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."

Authors Alliance provides resources and guidance designed to help creators better understand and leverage their rights.
There are resources on negotiating your publishing contracts and rights reversions (to regain some rights from previously published works).

A collaborate initiative enabling open access books, the Knowledge Unlatched model depends on many libraries from around the world sharing the payment of a single Title Fee to a publisher, in return for a book being made available on a Creative Commons licence via OAPEN and HathiTrust as a fully downloadable PDF.

From the Unglue.it "About" page:

At Unglue.it, you can pledge toward creating ebooks that will be legally free, worldwide. These books have already been traditionally published, but they're stuck: legal restrictions keep you from being able to enjoy and share them.

Unglue.it gets them unstuck. Authors and publishers decide what amount lets them freely share their books with the world while still making a living. We raise that fee here through crowdfunding: people like you chipping in. When campaigns succeed, the rights holders get paid, and they issue a free electronic edition under a Creative Commons license.