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The problem of prestige
Title slide: the problem of
prestige
Lucy Barnes
openbookpublishers.com

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Open Book Publishers
• Leading scholar-led non-profit Open Access press
• Founded in 2008 in Cambridge
• 40 peer-reviewed books per year
• No OA charges for authors
• Aim: make high-quality academic books
freely available everywhere

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• In UK: 19 New University Presses
(almost all less than 10 years old)
• 8 considering launching in subsequent 5 years
• Academic-led: 14 presses interviewed
Adema, J & Stone, G 2017, 'The Surge in New University Presses
and Academic-Led Publishing:An Overview of a Changing Publishing Ecology in the UK’, LIBERQUARTERLY, 27:1, 97-126
New presses
New presses

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Latest developments, newest presses

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Assess your options
Assess your options
• OAPEN OA BooksToolkit: https://www.oabooks-toolkit.org/
• Open Access Books Network (OABN): https://oabooksnetwork.org/
• Open BookCollective; OASPA
• Read the books!

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Presses should make it easy for you
Presses should make it easy for you!

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Prizewinning books
Prizewinning books

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Author feedback

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We don’t have a quality problem
We don’t have a quality problem

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We have a prestige problem
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Working with prestige

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Open access books in ten years’ time?
Open access books in ten years’ time?