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Welcome to the Guide to Open Access Monographs! The scholarly monograph has received considerably less attention from the Open Access movement than journals and journal articles have. Nevertheless, the scholarly monograph should not be excluded from the Open Access movement. … Continue reading →

OAPEN “OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The OAPEN Library aims to improve the visibility and … Continue reading →

More and more publishers are trying the Open Access model. For most of the publishers though, this means a hybrid model. There are few publishers who are solely Open Access publishers. Open Book Publishers “At Open Book Publishers we are … Continue reading →

Textbooks are expensive. Therefore, they have been targeted early on from the Open Access movement. Open Access Textbooks The Open Access Textbooks Grant Project is a project with the goal to “create a sustainable model for Florida and other states … Continue reading →

Adema, J. & Ferwerda, E. (2009). Open Access for Monographs. Retrieved July 14, 2011, from http://openreflections.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/logos-article1.pdf Cronin, B., La Barre, K. (2004). Mickey Mouse and Milton: book publishing in the humanities. Learned Publishing, 17, 85–98. Hadro, J. (2010). At SPARC-ACRL … Continue reading →