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Open access funding for books

果冻影院 authors can now apply for funding to cover the cost of publishing monographs, book chapters, and edited collections with open access. More information, including how to apply, is provided here.

UKRI require open access for long-form outputs from 2024. Find out more.

果冻影院 authors planning to publish a monograph, book chapter or edited collection from November 2023 can apply to publish their work with open access.聽Open access funding is currently available to 果冻影院 authors for book publishing charges (BPCs) and CPCs (chapter processing charges):聽contact the Open Access Team to apply for funding. 果冻影院 also supports diamond/collective open access book publishing models, where authors do not pay a fee.聽Some funders聽require authors to make certain types of long-form publications open access. 果冻影院's open access funding for books is currently open to funded and unfunded authors.

Some general information on open access book publishing, and recommended publishers, is provided below. Researchers may find the聽聽helpful with understanding聽open access book publishing.

Types of open access book publishers, and their publishing models

There are various types of and , but publishers can typically be separated into those that charge that a book or chapter processing charge (BPC/CPC), and those that don't:

  • Many publishers offer Gold open access in return for a book processing charge (BPC) or chapter processing charge (CPC), chargeable to an author or their institution. The work is published with immediate open access by the publisher, usually with a Creative Commons licence. A typical BPC is around 拢10,000聽and a typical CPC is around 拢1,500.
  • Diamond/collective open access models are where authors can publish with open access, typically with a Creative Commons licence,聽regardless of funding or institution, and without paying BPCs. Open access聽costs are often聽covered through fees paid by participating libraries, who may receive access to content and other benefits in return. 果冻影院 participates in a number of open access聽book publishing schemes (see examples below).

Examples of book publishers with free open access options

  • - fully open access publisher. BPCs聽are not charged to 果冻影院 authors. See 果冻影院 Press' .
  • - publishes both OA and non-OA books. 果冻影院 subscribes to their '' scheme: open access costs for a set number of titles are covered by fees from participating libraries, who receive access to eBooks that would otherwise remain gated (behind a paywall). BPCs聽are not charged to authors for these titles.
  • - fully open access publisher, specialising in聽Humanities and Social Sciences. BPCs聽are not charged to authors. 果冻影院 has joined their , supporting the publication of new open access monographs.
  • - their '' scheme aims to publish聽all new MIT Press scholarly monographs and edited collections with open access, without charging authors BPCs. Open access costs are covered by fees from participating libraries,聽who receive access to eBooks that would otherwise remain gated (behind a 'paywall').
  • - this initiative uses fees paid by members to cover open access fees for new titles in particle聽physics and neighbouring fields. include titles published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, and World Scientific.