Open Book Publishers 15 Years of Open Book Publishers: An Interview with Alessandra Tosi and Rupert Gatti Open Book Publishers (OBP), founded in 2008, celebrates its 15th year of operation this year. Read now an interview with Alessandra Tosi and Rupert Gatti where they discuss OBP's transformative journey in scholarly publishing.
Academic Publishing Is a Rights Retention Clause needed for OA books? When discussing funder-imposed Rights Retention Strategies (RRS) there is an important consideration for funders of Open Access (OA) books that differs from journals. It will be explored in this post.
Usage data Open Access book usage in 2020: measurement and value Given that the need for remotely accessible resources has risen so significantly in the last year, how has the usage of our books changed?
About Us The cost of Open Access books: a publisher writes OBP lays out our costs and revenue for the last financial year (2018 - 2019), to add some numbers to discussions about funding OA books.
bad actors Featured Open Book Publishers’ statement on Knowledge Unlatched and the Open Research Library We have grave concerns about the approach and business model of the Open Research Library, and those of its creator Knowledge Unlatched, which we will set out in this post.
Academic Publishing OBP's responses to the UUK Open Access Monographs project questionnaire OBP has participated in the data-gathering exercise that is currently being carried out by Fullstopp Gmbh on behalf of the Universities UK Open Access Monographs working group. The questionnaire, which is available online, has been designed to collect information that will inform future OA policy decisions, and in the spirit
Academic Publishing Featured Why OBP is not participating in KU Open Funding: and why libraries should understand the reasons. Knowledge Unlatched has recently announced the launch of a new platform to fund Open Access (OA) books. In this post, we explain our concern with this platform and why we won't be participating.
Data Introducing Some Data to the Open Access Debate: OBP’s Business Model (Part One) There is quite a lot of discussion about how to finance the costs of publishing monographs in Open Access. While lots of alternative business models have been identified, actual hard data on the publishing costs and revenue associated with academic books are conspicuously absent from the debate (for fairly obvious
Data Introducing Data to the Open Access Debate: OBP's Business Model (Part Two) In the first part of this post I identified some of the problems I perceive with the legacy publishing model for academic books, articulated the primary objectives of OBP, and noted that at OBP we have the same number of sales per book and two orders of magnitude more readers
Data Introducing Data to the Open Access Debate: OBP’s Business Model (Part Three) Here are our cost and revenue figures. As also reported at the OASPA conference, they are for the 12-month period from 1 September 2014 to 31 August 2015. Being based in the UK, our accounts are actually denominated in British pounds, but to ease international comparison I have reported everything
