Open Book Publishers

Open Book Publishers
Founded2008 (2008)
FounderRupert Gatti, Alessandra Tosi and William St Clair
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters locationCambridge, England
Publication typesBooks
Official websitewww.openbookpublishers.com

Open Book Publishers (OBP) is an open access academic book publisher based in the United Kingdom. It is a non-profit social enterprise and community interest company (CIC) that promotes open access for academic monographs, edited collections, critical editions and textbooks in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Mathematics and Science. All OBP books are peer-reviewed.[1][2]

All OBP titles are open access, and are available in free editions in PDF, HTML and XML formats on the publisher's website, and a number of platforms including Google Books, Worldreader, OpenEdition, DOAB, The European Library and Europeana.[3] Some editions are hosted on Wikiversity in socially editable format, e.g. In the Lands of the Romanovs: An Annotated Bibliography by Anthony Cross (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2015).[4] Readers in developing countries can access OBP titles using e-readers and 2G mobile phones via Worldreader. Open Book Publishers is a partner in the COPIM project, building not-for-profit community-owned, open infrastructures to enable open access book publishing to prosper.[5] OBP is a founder member of ScholarLed, a collective of not-for-profit, academic-led, open access book publishers.[6] It is also a founder and co-ordinator of the Open Access Books Network, a free and open network for anyone interested in open access books.[7]

  1. ^ Finnegan, Ruth (11 August 2011). "Open Access: taking academic publishing out of ivory tower". The Independent. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
  2. ^ Gatti, Rupert (2011). "CAM Debate: Access All Areas". Cambridge Alumni Magazine, Issue 62, 2011. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
  3. ^ Paulin, Roger (2016). The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry. doi:10.11647/OBP.0069. ISBN 978-1-909254-95-4.
  4. ^ Cross, Anthony (2014). "In the Lands of the Romanovs". Wikiversity. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  5. ^ Schaffhauser, Dian (15 July 2019). "Project Working to Improve Open-Access Publishing -". Campus Technology. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  6. ^ Ferwerda, Eelco (10 June 2020). "'Scaling small: the story behind ScholarLed' – Part 1". OAPEN - supporting the transition to open access for academic books. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  7. ^ "About us – Open Access Books Network". Retrieved 22 October 2021.