The document discusses the problem of prestige that open access academic presses face. It notes that there has been a surge in new university presses and academic-led publishing in the UK in recent years, with 19 new presses launched and 8 more considering launching. However, open access presses have a prestige problem compared to traditional publishers. The document argues that with time and as the quality of open access book publishing is demonstrated, the issue of prestige for open access presses will diminish over the next ten years.

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

2. 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

3. • 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

4. Latest developments, newest presses

5. 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!

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

7. Prizewinning books
Prizewinning books

8. Author feedback

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

10. We have a prestige problem
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11. Working with prestige

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