Open Book Publishers
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| Founded | 2008 |
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| Founder | Rupert Gatti, Alessandra Tosi and William St Clair |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | Cambridge, England |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | www |
Open Book Publishers (OBP) is an open access academic book publisher based in the United Kingdom. It is a non-profit social enterprise and community interest company (CIC) that promotes open access for full academic monographs, critical editions and textbooks in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Mathematics and Science. All OBP books are peer-reviewed.
All OBP titles are available in free, open access editions in PDF and XTML formats on the publisher’s website, and a number of platforms including Google Books, Worldreader, OpenEdition, DOAB, The European Library and Europeana. Some editions are hosted on in socially editable format (e.g. In the Lands of the Romanovs: An Annotated Bibliography). Readers in developing countries can access OBP titles using e-readers and 2G mobile phones via Worldreader.
Open Book Publishers was founded in 2008 by Rupert Gatti and Alessandra Tosi, both academics from the University of Cambridge. William St Clair joined OBP in 2009. OBP is now the biggest open access academic publisher of monographs in the UK. By the Spring of 2016, it had 77 books in its catalogue, all of which are free to read online. With print on demand technology OBP titles are also available in paperback and hardback editions.
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