Obp and dickinson college partnered to create books that offer enhanced key texts in latin in open access format. Knowledge unlatched encourages authors to discuss this option with their publishers. We share our knowledge and peerreveiwed research papers with libraries, scientific and engineering societies, and also. Open and free content on jstor and artstor about jstor. By making research easy to access, and puts the academic needs of the researchers before the business interests of publishers. As phd students, we found it difficult to access the research we needed, so we decided to create a new open access publisher that levels the playing field for scientists across the world.
Directory of open access books is a joint service of oapen, openedition, cnrs and aixmarseille universite. Aauarlaupresses open access monograph publishing initiative. Open book publishers obp is a united kingdombased, nonprofit social enterprise and community interest company cic specializing in open access academic book publication. The mit press has been a leader in open access book publishing for two decades, beginning in 1995 with the publication of william mitchells city of bits, which appeared simultaneously in print and in a dynamic, open web edition. Opportunity for monographs and conference proceedings. Michael worboys coauthor with aya homei of our first open access monograph. We helped to pioneer open access book publishing, first piloting open access publication for books in 2011. Where to publish open access publishing libguides at. Our joint series appears as both free web resources hosted on the dcc website and as interactive texts released in a variety of formats. We are delighted that our book is being published open access and feel that it will ensure that our subject, the history of fungal disease, will enjoy a much wider audience than would otherwise have been the case. We publish open access books across a wide range of areas in science, technology, medicine stm, and humanities and. Project muses open access oa books program offers publishers the ability to have their open access content available on the muse platform. Welcome to our biogeneric science and research submit submit your research open access journal of bgsr pdf pdf is a file format that has captured html video articles it is a compilation of documents we honorably accepting video articles e books we honorably accepting e books covid19 related articles are acceptable in our jbgsr journal.
Juniper publishers is a platform for professors and researchers who aspire to give out quality information based on their research and expertise, in an attempt to aid scholarsresearchers in their field of interest. We are committed to our mission of developing and disseminating publishing solutions that advance open access, preserve the. We are intechopen, the worlds leading publisher of open access books. The model depends on libraries contributing to cover a publishers costs on a book. Upon publication, open access titles and chapters are made available in digital format to read and download freely under a creative commons license. Authors of academic book chapters could choose gold open access wherein they pay a fee and the publisher makes the chapter freely available. Contact one of our publishing editors in your discipline to discuss your proposal. Springer nature publishes open access oa books and chapters under its springeropen and palgrave macmillan imprints. Bloomsbury academic began as an open access book publisher in 2009 with the launch of a new creative commons initiative by dr.
Open access publishing university of california, davis. It is a nonprofit social enterprise and community interest company cic that promotes open access for full academic monographs, critical editions and textbooks in the humanities, social sciences, mathematics and science. Our readership spans scientists, professors, researchers. Open access is the free, unrestricted online access to chapters, articles or scholarly books to read, open and share covering all scientific disciplines covers both journals and books monographs, edited collections, encyclopedias, and conference proceedings what are the benefits to open. Every book we publish is available to read online for free. The directory of open access books doab refers to open access books on the websites of the publishers. Directory of open access books is a joint service of oapen, openedition, cnrs and aixmarseille universite, provided by doab foundation in cooperation with sempertool. Major publishers are doing their part in offering a ton of programs and initiatives to help readers, bookstores, schools and. Rather, they cover costs through publication fees, institutional subsidies, endowments, or sponsorships. Open access publishings supporters like the practice because it allows wider access to publications than traditional subscription models. Thousands of titles are now available from publishers such as university of california press, cornell university press, nyu press, and university of michigan press, and we will continue to add new titles.
Open access can be provided by commercial publishers, who may publish open access as well as subscriptionbased journals, or dedicated open access publishers such as public library of science plos and biomed central. Open access publishing in european networks, oapen. The oa books are fully integrated with all the features and functionality of subscriberonly books and journals on project muse. Springfield publishers open access journals publishers. Ariadna ediciones is indexed in book citation index. Since then the division has grown to become a leading global independent publisher focussing on the arts, humanities and social sciences with offices in. Our readership spans scientists, professors, researchers, librarians, and students, as well as business professionals.
Edited by alba scerrati we are intechopen, the worlds leading publisher of open access books. Juniper publishers open access journal juniper publishers is a platform for professors and researchers who aspire to give out quality information based on their research and expertise, in an attempt to aid scholarsresearchers in their field of interest. We, as open access publishers, strive to offer the best in class online science publications. Feb 27, 2020 hybrid journals are still fundamentally subscription journals with an open access option for individual articles. In addition to appearing on the mdpi books website, title information of books is sent to international indexing databases and archives, such as the directory of open access books doab, the verzeichnis lieferbarer bucher vlb, and the swiss national library. Our open access books program allows authors and their funders to publish open access oa single or coauthored books, edited collections and individual chapters.
Obp promotes open access for full academic monographs in humanities and social science. There are over 2,000 open access books and a small number of fully oa journals on the muse platform. Palgrave macmillan was one of the first publishers to offer an open access option for hss and the first major publisher to offer cc by for oa books. With over 35 years experience of publishing highquality scientific content, you can be assured that your work will be assessed fairly.
Open access books can be challenging to publish due to the costs involved in publishing a book, but the good news is that oa models are. The pandemic of covid19 is disrupting the entire bookselling industry. These titles reflect jstors high standards for quality content and are freely available for anyone in the world to use. Feb 27, 2020 knowledge unlatched works with libraries and academic publishers to make selected books openly accessible. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Oa books open access research guides at virginia tech. Nov 02, 2016 publishers and investment professionals can trust open access book publishing 20162020 to provide the inside intelligence needed to evaluate growth potential, understand trends affecting the academic publishing industry, and size up the competition. And because open access has been developed to suit a variety of needs, publishers wary of losing profits can take advantage of the hybrid open access method see glossary below for more details to get the best of both worlds. Read more about why you should publish an open access book. Oaspa posts on open access publishing news, initiatives, and events in the global south. With over 35 years experience of publishing highquality scientific content, you can be assured that your work will be assessed fairly and quickly, and published with care and accuracy. They are not true open access journals, despite publishers use of the term gold open access to describe this arrangement, and the cornell open access publication fund does not support open access fees to hybrid journals. On this platform, we curate content that ranges from scientific manuscripts. Industry trends in open access book publishing include.
These funders support immediate open access to books and book chapters resulting from research grants. Representing our community of scholarly publishers and related organisations, oaspa works to support the transition to a world in which open access becomes the predominant model of publication for scholarly outputs. Like full open access journals, publishers of open access books do not charge subscription fees to readers or libraries. We publish highquality, open access academic research in the humanities and social sciences. For more information, and freely available resources related to covid19, please click here. All fields title abstract keywords authors affiliations doi full text references. Mdpi is a pioneer in scholarly open access publishing. We have partnered with leading presses on a project to add open access ebooks to jstor. Most openaccess publishers charge fees that are much lower than the industrys average revenue, although there is a wide scatter between.
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