(19 Sep 2023) The Association of University Presses (AUPresses) and Ithaka S+R today publish “Print Revenue and Open Access Monographs: A University Press Study.” This report is the result of research funded by a Level I Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to investigate the effect of open digital editions on the…
(11 Jul 2023) Bloomsbury has announced the launch of a pilot program for a collective-action funding model for open-access books. Bloomsbury Open Collections seeks to spread the cost of open-access publications across multiple organizations while providing private benefits to participating libraries. Bloomsbury is the first commercial publisher to pilot such a model, and aims to…
(17 Jan 2023) JSTOR, part of the non-profit ITHAKA, and a cohort of leading university presses announced today Path to Open, a program to support the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that will bring diverse perspectives and research to millions of people. Launching as a pilot, Path to Open libraries will contribute…
(1 Dec 2022) The world’s largest disciplinary open access initiative, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP³), has officially launched a new initiative to make books in particle physics and related domains fully open access, under the SCOAP³ for Books program. Since the launch of SCOAP³ in 2014, the transition…
(2 Nov 2022) Two international projects, OPERAS-PLUS project and the Book Analytics Dashboard project, commit to coordinate on delivering transparent, trusted, and community-controlled analytics tools and services to support the transition to open access for scholarly books. The diversity of players in scholarly book publishing needs to be protected and ensuring that there are high quality and…
(30 Jun 2021) A new Open Access pilot scheme from Cambridge University Press will turn conventional publishing models on their head by making academic monographs that sell the most copies available online for free. The initiative, called Flip it Open, will see selected books published and sold as normal, primarily through library collections for universities. But…
(24 Mar 2021) Jisc, the not for profit for research and education, is launching a toolkit that will help new university presses to find sustainable ways to publish open access. Funder policies surrounding open access have led to a revival in university presses in the UK and overseas. A 2017 report found that in the past five years,…
(23 Mar 2021) Springer Nature has signed its first ever institutional open access (OA) book agreement with the University of California, Berkeley Library. The agreement will cover a broad range of book titles across all disciplines — from humanities and social sciences to sciences, technology and mathematics and, starting in 2021 and running for at least…
(10 Sept 2020) Open access (OA) books are reaching more countries and have greater usage and higher citation numbers than non-OA books. A new analysis collaboratively produced by Springer Nature and COARD (Collaborative Open Access Research & Development) presents these and other key findings in a new white paper that explores how OA affects the geographical…