Open Book Publishers

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

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,

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)

OBP Nominated for Education Award

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)