From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 01:41:21 -0500

Commercial publishers like Palgrave started offering such OA options
several years ago, and quite a few publishers have followed suit
since. At the time of its announcement Palgrave was requiring a fee of
around $17,500, as I recall.

As for an increase in humanities publishing, one wonders whether
self-published books are being counted and how many are being put out
by publishers that do not use peer review or use it sparingly.  (The
Edwin Mellen Press comes to mind.)There are companies like Lambert in
Germany that also just republish dissertations, for a fee:
https://www.lap-publishing.com/

Sandy Thatcher


From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 20:11:25 -0400

When I asked about similar programs, I meant to ask which publishers
will publish quality monographs if/when the author (or author's grant
or author's institution) is able to cover the costs.  For example,
here's CUP able to do it for $10,000; UC Open announced a $15,000 fee
(but with possible subventions); some months back Routledge announced
a program at 10,000 pounds.

What other publishers are offering this, or are there so many now that
mine is the wrong question?

Also -- and perhaps I'm conflating two different trends -- we read the
other day in the newly released Humanities Indicators report - thanks
to Gary Price for this:

http://www.humanitiesindicators.org/binaries/pdf/HI_HigherEd2015.pdf

as follows:  "Despite concerns about the state of humanities
publishing in recent years, the number of new academic titles released
annually in the humanities was slightly higher in North America in
2012 than in 2009, rising from 48,597 new books published to 51,789."

Somehow, it does seem to be becoming a little easier for humanists
(and younger scholar humanists?) to get their books published?

Cheers, Ann Okerson



On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 6:54 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:06:47 -0500
>
> I'm not aware of any other press that allows authors to post portions
> of their books on their own personal or institutional web sites In
> Green OA mode (which i assume means pre-copyediting).
>
> But of course there have been any number of presses engaged in OA
> monograph publishing for a while, some of them not requiring any
> author payments up front but instead relying on generating revenue
> from POD sales. It is good to see another press of CUP's size getting
> into the business, though.
>
> Sandy Thatcher
>
>
>
> > From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 17:10:33 -0400
> >
> > This is of interest -- CUP joins several other publishers in offering
> > authors a fair way to produce quality open access monographs; also see
> > their statement about green open access for books.
> >
> > [Which other publishers have similar programs?]
> >
> > http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=1883
> >
> > "The standard charge for publication of books under the Gold Open
> > Access model at CUP is £6,500 ($10,000/°Ë9,000) for titles of up to
> > 120,000 words. The charge has been set at this level in recognition of
> > ongoing print sales, but as these diminish the business models and
> > pricing levels may change.
> >
> > "CUP also supports Green Open Access Archiving across books and
> > journals. This new policy allows authors of monographs and certain
> > other books to post portions of their work on personal websites and
> > repositories without compromising any aspect of the publishing
> > process."