List of open access monograph publishers
A non-exhaustive list of List of Open Access Monograph Publishers
Last updated March 2023 by the Scholarly Communications Team, University of Sheffield Library
The University of Sheffield have an Institutional Open Access fund which can be used to cover open access charges for monographs and individual book chapters (as long as the whole book is open access).
We are particularly interested in supporting authors to publish in fully open access book publishers. This is a non-exhaustive list of fully open access monograph publishers, some of which charge mandatory Book Processing Charges (BPCs) and others which use other funding models (eg. library memberships) and charge optional BPCs if funding is available.
- Aberdeen University Press
- Cardiff University Press
- Helsinki University Press
- Lever Press
- LSE Press
- Mattering Press
- Media Studies Press
- Meson Press
- Open Book Publishers
- Open Humanities Press
- Punctum Books
- Scottish Universities Press
- Stockholm University Press
- Ubiquity Press
- UCL Press
- University of Huddersfield Press
- University of Westminster Press
- White Rose University Press (non profit, fully OA press established in 2016 and owned by the Universities of Sheffield, Leeds and York)
- Winchester University Press
Other open access models
We are also interested in supporting publishers that are not fully open access but which are experimenting with a variety of ways to reduce the cost of BPCs or not charge BPCs at all. This includes library memberships and permissive green OA policies. The list below gives examples of traditional publishers who have adopted innovative open access models and policies.
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Charges Book Processing Charges for immediate open access and allows no-embargo deposit for the full author accepted manuscript. |
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| Bristol University Press | Participating in the OpenUP Early Career Researcher (ECR) monograph initiative. Seeking collective funding to make 12 titles open access. |
| Cambridge University Press | Commitment to making 100 titles open access once they have made a set amount in sales revenue ('Flip it Open' scheme) |
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25 frontlist titles per year funded through Opening the Future model, if other sources of funding not available |
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| Edinburgh University Press | Participating in the OpenUP Early Career Researcher (ECR) monograph initiative. Seeking collective funding to make 12 titles open access |
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“Green Open Access publisher.” VoR can be made available in a repository after 18 months. Subventions required to make it available earlier. |
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Authors eligible to apply for ⅓ discount on BPC through the “KU fund for fair OA” |
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| Liverpool University Press | Some new titles published open access under an ‘Opening the Future’ model |
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Luminos (University of California Press open access programme) |
Open access costs are reduced through library memberships |
| Manchester University Press | Participating in the OpenUP Early Career Research (ECR) monograph initiative. Seeking collective funding to make 12 titles open access. |
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From 2022, all new scholarly books published open access through the ‘Direct to Open’ model |
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| University of Wales Press | Participating in the OpenUP Early Career Research (ECR) monograph initiative. Seeking collective funding to make 12 titles open access |
Traditional monograph publishers (eg. Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, Oxford University Press) often also offer an open access route. Currently, you may be able to have these charges covered by the Institutional Open Access Fund, although this may need to be reviewed if demand is too high. Please be aware that we may consult your Faculty Director of Research in order to make a final decision.
If you have any questions about this list, please contact oaenquiries@sheffield.ac.uk