Open Access

One Hundred Books: How Far Have We Come? (Part Three)

Open Technology: The Future of Open Access This is the third and final part of a three-part series of blogs to celebrate the publication of our hundredth book. To read the first part,

100th Book

One Hundred Books: How Far Have We Come? (Part Two)

This is part of a three-part series of blogs to celebrate the publication of our hundredth book. To read the first part, click here. To read the final part, click here. A Global

100th Book

One Hundred Books: How Far Have We Come? (Part One)

Open Book Publishers was born in 2008, sparked into life by co-founder and managing editor Alessandra Tosi’s first-hand experience of the frustrations of academic publishing. The thrill of seeing her book in

OBP Customised

Sharing Knowledge Just Got More Personal

OBP is delighted to announce the launch of OBP Customised, a new line of customised editions that lets readers create their own books! We are the first Open Access publisher in the UK

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

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

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,

Caroline Warman

Interdisciplinary Diderot

Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was a mathematician, a major art critic, an innovative novelist, a playwright, and, of course, the editor of the Encyclopédie, which contained articles on most subjects under the sun: science,

Conveyancing

In Honour of Professor Robert Rennie

In 2014, Robert Rennie retired from the post he had held since 1994 as Professor of Conveyancing at the University of Glasgow. This brought an end to part – but only part – of a

Documentary Photography

How I Came Home

For most of my professional career I was a teacher of French literature and much of my published work has been in that field. But I have always been a wanderer and, since

What We Talk About When We Talk About… Book Usage Data

OBP Autumn Newsletter

Why political scientists and linguists are now talking about language politics in the Himalaya

The Shifting Politics of Representations of the Himalaya: From Colonial Authority to Open Access

One Hundred Books: How Far Have We Come? (Part Three)

One Hundred Books: How Far Have We Come? (Part Two)

One Hundred Books: How Far Have We Come? (Part One)

Sharing Knowledge Just Got More Personal

Introducing Some Data to the Open Access Debate: OBP’s Business Model (Part One)

Introducing Data to the Open Access Debate: OBP's Business Model (Part Two)

Introducing Data to the Open Access Debate: OBP’s Business Model (Part Three)

Interdisciplinary Diderot

In Honour of Professor Robert Rennie

How I Came Home