Research Guides: Scholarly Communication & Related Issues: Open Access Monographs

Scholarly Communication & Related Issues

Scholarly communication is the life-blood of the university’s teaching and research mission. Issues of copyright, intellectual property rights, and the long-term preservation of digital assets are posing new challenges to faculty, schools, & librarians.

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Author's Rights, Copyright & Fair Use

Authors have rights over their intellectual property. They have the ability to transfer or retain full (or partial) rights that influence the dissemination and utilization of their publications in teaching and research. The UCI Libraries' Digital Scholarship Services will work with faculty to develop copyright workshops and consultations, educational materials on copyright, standard language for use in publisher’s contracts, copyright management programs, and other support services to facilitate the widest dissemination and use of scholarly materials.

The University of California, Irvine, Senate Assembly has passed a Joint Resolution on Scholarly Communication and Faculty Copyrights encouraging faculty members to retain copyright in original scholarship to insure the widest dissemination possible of materials used to further education and research.

There are some simple steps that faculty may take to retain their intellectual property rights.

Related Resources

University of California Supported Options

These are services we currently support. Please contact Mitchell Brown, Scholarly Communications Coordinator, to discuss the services that may be available to support publishing Open Access monographs.

Luminos Open Access
UC Irvine Libraries Pilot Initiative to Support UCI Authors Publishing through the University of California Press Luminos Program
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Luminos program offers open access publishing for monographs, with the same high standards for selection, peer review, production, and marketing as for our traditional books program. It's a transformative model, built as a partnership where costs and benefits are shared between the author, publisher, institutions, and libraries.
MIT Press Direct to Open
MIT supports a variety of open access funding models for select books, including monographs, trade books, and textbooks.
Punctum Books
Punctum Books is an open-access and print-on-demand independent publisher dedicated to radically creative modes of intellectual inquiry and writing across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage. They publish both journals and books (under various imprints). The books are published under CC-BY-NC-ND licenses. In addition, Punctum Books supports distribution platform Graduated Open Access which was launched in December 2015.
TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)
TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) is an initiative from the Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, and Association of University Presses to advance the wide dissemination of scholarship by humanities and humanistic social sciences faculty members through open access editions of peer-reviewed and professionally edited monographs.

Open Access Publishers for Monographs

Amsterdam University Press
A publishing house for the humanities and social sciences. The key aim of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.
ANU Press (Australian National University)
ANU Press is Australia’s first open-access university press. Our authors publish peer-reviewed research on a broad range of topics including Asia and Pacific studies, Australian politics, humanities, arts, Indigenous studies and science. Launched in 2004, ANU Press prides itself on its innovation in the area of open-access scholarship. To date, ANU Press has published nearly 1,000 publications, all of which are freely available on this website.
Bloomsbury Open Content
Bloomsbury Academic began as an open access book publisher focussing on the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Several hundred titles available through Bloomsbury Open Access programme.
Brill Open
Brill is an open-access publisher in the humanities and social sciences and has published over 400 Open Access books.
InTechOpen
Over 5000 peer-reviewed open access books, with a focus on the fields of science, technology, and medicine.
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press is a founding member of the OAPEN project which has led the way in developing a sustainable platform for OA publishing of monographs in the Humanitites and Social Sciences.
Open Book Publishers
Open book Publishers is an Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences who have published over 220 open access monographs.
Open Humanities Press
OHP is an international community of scholars, editors, and readers with a focus on critical and cultural theory. OHP has published over sixty titles and nine monograph series.
Palgrave Open
Palgrave Macmillian Publishers offer to allow authors to publish their their academic books and chapters open access.
Re-Press
Re-Presss, is a publishing house for contemporary philosophy that seeks to make as many of their publications as possible available as open access files.
SpringerOpen
Springer Publishing offers the option to publish open access books and chapters in a wide rang of areas within science, technology, and medicine, and also with the humanities and social sciences.
Taylor & Francis Open Access Books
Taylor & Francis' Open Access Book program allows authors and their funders to publish Open Acces single, co-authored books, edited collections, and individual chapters.
UCL Press
UCL Press was established as the UK's first fully open access university press in 2015, and currently publishes 50 open access books a year.

OA Books Toolkit

OA Books Toolkit
The OA Books Toolkit aims to help book authors to better understand open access book publishing and to increase trust in open access books. You will be able to find relevant articles on open access book publishing following the research lifecycle, by browsing frequently asked questions or by searching with keywords.
Think Check Submit
Advice about choosing a publisher for your open access monograph.
Why should I publish an Open Access book?
How does open access affect the geographical diversity of readers?

Diversifying readership through open access: A usage analysis for OA books is a new white paper by Springer Nature and COARD based on usage data for 3,934 books, including 281 open access books.

This white paper presents the analysis of that data, exploring what effect, if any, publishing OA has on the geographic usage of books. The findings will be of interest to researchers, authors, librarians and publishers alike.

On the right is an interactive summary of the key highlights in the white paper, including a short video.

Scholarly Communication & Related Issues

Author's Rights, Copyright & Fair Use

University of California Supported Options

DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books

Open Access Publishers for Monographs

OA Books Toolkit