Open Access

Ten Years of OBP: An Interview with Alessandra Tosi and Rupert Gatti (Part One)

Ten years ago today Open Book Publishers was born. Non-profit, scholar-led and now the leading UK Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences, OBP began as a small-scale experiment, a passion

Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia

Open Access in Russia - a point of connection?

Since the success of Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia 1600-1850 edited by Simon Franklin and Katherine Bowers, and our growing number of titles that focus on Russia-related topics, we have

Data

Open Access Around the World: Tracking Our Books Using Online Statistics

At Open Book Publishers, openness is at the heart of everything we do (the clue is in the name!) Recently, we’ve been working on how to present more data about our books

1600-1850

Expect the Unexpected

Underlying my contributions to Information and Empire is academic work extending back several decades over much of my academic career (with many breaks for other projects). I have had the satisfaction of seeing

1600-1850

Of Roots and Scrolls

Or, How the Bible, Witchcraft, and Botany Were Brought Together By Bureaucracy In A Completely Everyday Fashion That Was Totally Normal At The Time, No, Really, Stay With Me On This One You

1600-1850

How do people know things?

“How do people know things?” – the title of this blog post – seems like a simple question, but as our new publication, Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 demonstrates, the

100th Book

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

‘Thieves’ marks’ and ‘tinder-wolves’: The Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law

On 'Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora' by Grace Aneiza Ali (ed.).

Photography and Protest

The cost of Open Access books: a publisher writes

Ten Years of OBP: An Interview with Alessandra Tosi and Rupert Gatti (Part One)

Open Access in Russia - a point of connection?

Open Access Around the World: Tracking Our Books Using Online Statistics

Expect the Unexpected

Of Roots and Scrolls

How do people know things?

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