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Have you carefully assessed different organisational forms within and potentially beyond a particular national jurisdiction? Is your organisational form in line with your press' values? Does your organisational form enable your press to engage wi...

Business Models for OA Books Governing Scholar-Led OA Book Publishers

As Judith Fathallah describes in the Governing Scholar-Led OA Book Publishers report the question of governance is not necessarily the first concern of fledgling publishers [...] governance is not the most glamourous or exciting of topics. Its construction ...

Goverance structures punctum books has two co-directors, two associate directors with specific roles (Editorial Development and Community and Library Outreach respectively), plus various staff roles such as web developer and system administrator. They also ...

What principles shape the press' governance structure? Does the scholarly community (associations, universities, faculties, boards of academics/librarians, other friendly OA publishers) have a say in how the press is governed and run?  Is there a Di...

Cookbook, Chapter 2 NUP Toolkit, Setting up a press  Business Models for OA Books Governing Scholar-Led OA Book Publishers Educopia (2021). Governance in Formation: Identifying Priorities for Action and Making Decision Invest in Open...

There are many business models that have been tested/used by OA presses in different countries and at different times. The COPIM Revenue Models Report contains a comprehensive list of business models used by different publishers, which it classifies into four ...

Amongst the guides, there is broad consensus that while book sales are likely to be an important part of a publishers’ revenue stream, it is unlikely to be sufficient to meet the costs of Open Access publishing. Most Open Access publishers use print-on-demand ...

Perhaps the most common way of funding Open Access publishing is for the publisher to charge a so-called ‘Book Processing Charge’ (BPC) (even if publishers do not always use this term) to cover production costs and, in some cases, book sales revenue that might...

Crowdfunding models for Open Access publishing involve sourcing funds for one or more books from multiple different supporters – usually universities. Knowledge Unlatched, founded in 2012 and recently purchased by Wiley, is the most prominent organisation to a...

Open Access University Presses and library presses often receive some form of institutional support, ranging from financial support for the full range of costs involved in running a press to partial support – for example, to cover some staffing costs, or in-ki...

Recent years have seen an increasing number of publishers launching membership programmes to provide an additional revenue stream. The aim of a membership scheme is for the publisher to spread the costs of producing Open Access books across a number of support...

Does the business model include fair payment for the necessary work associated with running the press? Is volunteer labour kept to a minimum?  Has a decision been made about whether all digital formats will be made available for free?  If BPCs ar...

COPIM Revenue Models Report, Definitions Business Models for OA Books Elli Gerakopoulou, Izabella Penier, Joe Deville (2021). The promise of collaboration: collective funding models and the integration of Open Access books into libraries. COPIM. Ch...

There are different ways to navigate our toolkit. One route is to begin with our Key Resources and Sources which provides a summary of the resources that cover multiple parts of the publishing workflow that we have found useful. Another is to browse the too...

Cookbook, Chapter 3.10 NUP Toolkit, Publishing books OAPEN Toolkit, Book contract and license Janneke Adema (2010). Overview of Open Access Models for eBooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. OAPEN. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/228144629.p...

There are a number of resources written with authors in mind that are nonetheless useful for publishers wanting an overview of core information relating to licensing. Although at times, publishers have experimented with drafting their own licenses (see Adema...

Language Science Press publishes almost all its books under the CC-BY license, although allows books to be published under the CC-BY-SA and the CC-BY-ND license in exceptional circumstances (Business Models for OA Books) Mattering Press allows authors...

Does the press use appropriate open licenses OA licenses, with authors retaining copyright? How will you decide which license(s)r to use? Will you recommend or mandate a licence? Or will you allow authors freedom to choose?  If you decide to use ...

While the details of the production process may vary across publishers, the core stages are often the same. The NUP Toolkit provides a good overview of these stages, from submission to the idealised point of ‘handover’ from a commissioning editor to a producti...