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Welcome to Open Book Publishers

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197 titles published
Over 3 million book interactions
Library Membership: 180 libraries have joined!

We are the leading independent Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: a not-for-profit Social Enterprise run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers around the world. All our books are available to read online and download for free, with no Book Processing Charges (BPCs) for authors. We publish monographs and textbooks in all areas, offering the academic excellence of a traditional press combined with the speed, convenience and accessibility of digital publishing. We also publish bespoke Series for Universities and Research Centers and invite libraries to support Open Access publishing by joining our Membership Programme.

OBP is eligible to receive European Commission's publication grants for research funded within the FP7 and Horizon 2020 frameworks, and our books have been submitted for the UK REF assessment exercise.

Awards

We have been shortlisted for the 2017 and 2014 WISE Awards, we have achieved a 9/10 social impact score in the SE100 Rankings 2019 and are among the top 100 social enterprises in the NatWest SE100 2020. We won the 2013 IFLA/Brill Open Access award for initiatives in open access monograph publishing and the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) blue ribbon panel of industry experts selected OBP to be one of seven high-impact Open Access organizations, among journal publishers and content providers. 

Partnerships

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Our donors and supporters

We are a nonprofit independent publisher with no institutional backing. Open Book relies on sales and donations to continue publishing high-quality and free to read titles. We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of The Polonsky Foundation, the Thriplow Charitable Trust, the Jessica E. Smith and Kevin R. Brine Charitable Trust and The Progress Foundation.