Academic Publishing 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
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
Notes From The Editor OBP Nominated for Education Award We are delighted to announce that we are 2017 WISE Awards Finalists! The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) rewards organisations for their innovative and impactful approaches to today’s most urgent education
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