Dear LIBLICENSE,
I’d like to reply, if possible, to the discussion below:
Brill has been offering an Open Access monograph option since 2012: Brill Open Books. As of yet, we have +100 e-books available in Open Access, 65 of which are available in our Brill Open e-book collection.
The standard fee, based on a CC-BY-NC license, is €5150 for an average-size book (up to 350 pp). For books longer than 350 pages, the page charge is €12 per extra page.
Additionally, it is possible for authors (of edited volumes, e.g.) to publish a chapter in Open Access. The chapter fee, based on a CC-BY-NC license, is €650, and the e-book price is adjusted to reflect this income.
Both Brill Open Books and Brill Open Chapter publication possibilities are also available with a CC-BY license; prices available on request.
Our Open Access monographs are also available via the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB); to further increase visibility we encourage authors to share via the institutional repository and websites such as academia.edu.
More information can be found on our website. Any questions or comments are more than welcome and can be directed to Stephanie Paalvast at [log in to unmask].
Best regards,
Stephanie Paalvast
Program manager Open Access / BRILL
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/¤9,000) 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."