From: "Jean-Claude Guédon" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 18:52:51 -0400

Anthony,

Check http://www.oapen.org/search?browse-all=yes

You will find all the info you need.

OUP is credited with 40 titles in the site's list.

Jean-Claude Guédon


Le lundi 04 septembre 2017 à 14:48 -0400, LIBLICENSE a écrit :
From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 11:05:26 +0100

Forgive me Pierre. I meant to write "Publishers of most open access
books" which is rather different. I may well have been wrong in any
case.

I have just been looking at the OAPEN site. I cannot tell how many
publishers are involved. I may be looking in the wrong place. I did
find a mention in a newsletter that OUP were placing 24 OA titles. It
is interesting to learn that CUP are also placing their OA titles.

I also notice that OAPEN is working with SCIELO.

I do not know about the commercial publishers of monographs. In terms
of monograph publishing they are the biggest players in the English
language world along with OUP and CUP. Not all are UK. There are also
important commercial publishers like Brill and de Gruyter not in the
UK and of course there is Springer.

Then there is the output of the US university presses. They publish
4000 humanities monographs a year. Of course they are not European

Now in both cases  I have no idea how many OA books they publish but
they are undoubtedly publishing some OA books and  in many cases want
to publish more.

OK does this matter. OPERAS is (as I see it it) primarily concerned
with infrastructure and with supporting smaller European enterprises
in all languages.

But in my hat as a researcher and recently (again) a researcher in
this area I worry about compartmentalisation on geographical lines. I
am the first to object when (as happens) US enterprises tried to set
standards for the world. I do not see that it is any better if Europe
tries to do the same. Then there is the question of commercial
publishing. As a scholar I could not care less if a book I want to
locate is published by a commercial publisher. There are bodies in the
US that fund infrastructure but ignore commercial publishers - not
good

When I see working groups on Standards and Best Practices and Seamless
Services at European Level I wonder what this may be? I worry about
new standards which are not international standards.

I am pleased to see that DOAB is open to all academic publishers like
DOAJ and regardless of where they are based

I realise that I am making rather a meal of this - apologies to the
list. I shall desiist

Anthony