Scholarly Monograph Publishing in the 21st Century: The Future More Than Ever Should Be an Open Book

OAPEN-UK: An open access business model for scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences1

“…There is a strong perception -and some evidence -that selection and promotion committees still believe a print book is more prestigious than one published in electronic format, and so a cycle is created where researchers are dependent upon publishers for their career progression [20]. Some commentators even suggest universities…”

Across Space and Time

“…The worst publication cost escalations have focused on STEM journals, yet those are the journals prioritised in library budgets because of their strategic importance to universities. This leaves even less money for books and journals in the humanities and social sciences (Steele 2008).…”

New Publication Cultures in the Humanities: Exploring the Paradigm Shift

“…In countries where the 'sabbatical' is not yet established, it is especially difficult for a scholar to escape from teaching duties for a semester in order to prepare or complete a book. In search of remedies for these ills, our last paper, by Vera Szöllösi-Brenig, examines the funding initiative 'Opus Magnum' from the VolkswagenStiftung, a promising device to save the endangered academic species that an optimistic analysis recently called a rising phoenix (Steele 2003).…”