Good article. Open access book publishing is too often inequitable and expensive.
The answer is institutionally supported, non-profit, fully open access publishing, which needs to scale up - as we‘re doing at @lsepress.bsky.social
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Alice Park
🗣️"Book Processing Charges (BPCs) levied by larger publishers tend to range between £10,000 – £20,000 per title, far exceeding the budgets of all but the best-resourced institutions"
#OABooks #OAMonographs
An open access book mandate is one REF cycle away. If implemented, research funders should focus on enabling infrastructure rather than compliance.
