2. Funding Open Access Books
Some Early Experiments
OA edition + sales from print and/or e-books –
NAP, Bloomsbury Academic, OAPEN
More Recently
Institutional Support –
World Bank, Amherst
3. Funding Open Access Books
Who is Funding Open Access Books?
Research Funding Bodies
NOW Netherlands, FWF Austria, Wellcome UK,
Max Planck Society, Germany
University Budgets – BPCs?
4. Funding Open Access Books
What are Publishers Doing About Open Access
‘Author’ side publication fee – Springer
Open, Manchester University Press, Brill, Palgrave
Open
Other Way of Funding
General Crowd-funding – UnglueIt
Library Consortium – Knowledge Unlatched
5. Funding Open Access Books
Other Developments
Library-Press collaboration – Mpublishing/Michigan
Library Publishing – Library Publishing Coalition (USA)