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* This is a list of publishers of OA books.
** As of September 8, 2016, there are 162 publishers on this list. 

* When possible, please annotate each publisher: 
** to indicate whether it publishers just a line (series, imprint, etc.) of OA books, or whether all its books are OA
** to indicate whether it publishes OA monographs, textbooks, novels, or other kinds of OA books
** to indicate whether the OA books are also offered in priced, printed editions, perhaps print-on-demand (POD) editions 
** to indicate when it launched its (different lines of) OA books 
** to indicate the licensing terms on its OA books
** to use deep links to the relevant parts of its portfolio (i.e. its OA line of books or its different lines of OA books)
** (If you don't have some of this information, add the entry anyway.  Other users can add other details over time.)

* Related lists in OAD:  [[OA book business models]]
* For real-time news about OA books, including announcements about OA book publishers not yet reflected here, follow the [http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/3/tag/oa.books oa.books] and [http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.textbooks oa.textbooks] tags of the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_Tracking_Project Open Access Tracking Project].  Also see the [http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/3/tag/oa.books.sales oa.books.sales] tag for studies, news, and anecdotes on whether full-text OA books help or hurt the sales of print editions.

[[Category:Lists about books]] [[Category:Lists about publishers]]

== A ==

*[http://www.assaf.org.za/programmes/ Academy of Science of South Africa Scholarly Publishing Programme]
**The Academy of Science of South Africa Scholarly Publishing Programme, born out of a 2008 proposal to the Department of Science and Technology, is “focused on the enhancement of the quality, quantity and worldwide visibility of original, peer-reviewed publications produced by researchers in the public sector.” The current available gratis OA [http://www.assaf.org.za/books/ work] may be purchased through print on demand.

*[http://www.amedeo.com/ Amedeo]
** Amedeo "serve[s] the needs of healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, administrators, other members of the health professions, and patients and their friends". Among the services Amedeo provides are "weekly emails with bibliographic lists about new scientific publications, personal Web pages for one-time download of available abstracts..., and an overview of the medical literature published in relevant journals over the past 12 to 24 months". [http://www.amedeoprize.com/ap/pr/pr071122.htm Launched] in 2006, [http://www.amedeochallenge.com/ Amedeo Challege] is an imprint of Amedeo that commissions OA books written by medical and health care experts. 

*[http://www.library.unt.edu/aquiline-books Aquiline Books]
** Aquiline Books (formerly Eagle Editions) is an imprint of scholarly books from the University of North Texas Libraries. All titles are gratis OA from the start, and many are libre OA through various Creative Commons licenses. Many titles are available for purchase in print, e-book formats, or both. It was launched in late 2014 though publicized only in spring 2015.

*[http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/publications/open-access-ebooks The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA)]
** ASCSA, launched in 2014, began to provide free access to many volumes in the "Corinth", "Athenian Agora", and "Hesperia Supplements" series, which are out of print. The 57 e-books are available as PDFs, which were scanned by JSTOR. Titles are made available under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ BY-NC-ND Creative Commons licenses]. Find additional details [http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.ca/2014/05/57-newly-open-access-ebooks-from.html here].

*[https://www.amherst.edu/library/press/ Amherst College Press]
**A new digital publishing venture founded by Bryn Geffert, a Librarian of [https://www.amherst.edu/ Amherst College], that offers "peer-reviewed books written by leading scholars in the humanities and the social sciences that are then carefully edited and made available for free online". Producing books, or 'scholarly novellas' in "liberal arts disciplines such as political science, literary studies, history, economics and anthropology" in formats that will be suitable for most e-readers, not print editions. Funded by Amherst's [https://www.amherst.edu/library/ Frost Library]. Includes a free online version of Amherst's biannual literary magazine, [http://www.thecommononline.org/ The Common]. 
** Anticipated to begin soliciting manuscripts in the summer of 2013. 

*[http://www.ams.org/publications/online-books/onlinebkshome AMS Books Online]
** The AMS Books program of the [http://www.ams.org/ American Mathematical Society] has published "books that further mathematical research, awareness, education, and the profession while generating resources that support other Society programs and activities" since the 1890s.  [http://www.ams.org/samplings/math-history/math-history#freehistbooks Several titles] from AMS's Mathematics History series are OA, for which priced editions are available.  See the [http://www.ams.org/publications/authors/permissions copyright and permission information]. 

*[http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_home&m=28 Amsterdam University Press]
**Amsterdam University Press was founded in 1992, and since [http://www.issuu.com/ebisse/docs/brochure_oapen2010_digitaal_web 2008] has worked to promote OA publishing efforts; its catalogue is focused on “scholarly and trade publications…in the area of humanities (language and literature, history, film studies, art) and social sciences.” Many of the [http://oapen.org/search?f1-publisher=Amsterdam%20University%20Press titles] are available through the OAPEN repository; and print-on-demand editions of these works are offered. Creative Commons licensing is [http://www.issuu.com/ebisse/docs/brochure_oapen2010_digitaal_web used].

*[http://www.apress.com/ Apress]
** Apress is a technology and business trade publisher "devoted to meeting the needs of IT professionals, software developers, and programmers". Like its parent company [http://www.springer.com/ Springer], Apress offers an open access line of electronic books under its [http://www.apress.com/apressopen ApressOpen] program, launched in 2012. ApressOpen books are underwritten by a sponsoring organization, and print copies are available for purchase.

*[http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/ Athabasca University Press]
** Athabasca University Press is the publishing center for [http://www.athabascau.ca/ Athabasca University], and is part of the [http://www.lhcadl.ca/ Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library]. AU Press publishes the following [http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/ OA titles], which now include [https://mitopencourseware.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/athabasca-university-press-releases-open-textbooks/ textbooks]. The books are available electronically as PDFs, but are also available for purchase in print. All AU Press publications are protected by copyright, and in many cases are licensed through [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/ Creative Commons]; details thereon are [http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/about/copyright available].

*[http://www.atlantis-press.com/ Atlantis Press]
**Launched in 2006, Atlantis Press is a scientific publisher that produces “high quality, peer-reviewed conference articles, journals and books.” Most of the [http://www.atlantis-press.com/publications/books booklist] is not OA because, as noted in the vision statement, “we think that there is still a need for publishing books in print”; however, three editions, [http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-90-78677-42-0/ ''Activity Recognition in Pervasive Intelligent Environments''], [http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-94-91216-07-7/ ''Trust Networks for Recommender Systems''], and [http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-94-91216-02-2/ ''Nonlinear Hybrid Continuous/Discrete-Time Models''], are available through Springer Link. Print editions are available for purchase, and Creative Commons licensing is [http://www.atlantis-press.com/index_atlantis_press.html?http%3A//www.atlantis-press.com/html/main_details.htm used].

*[http://epress.anu.edu.au/ Australian National University (ANU) E Press]
** Launched in 2003 "to advance the intellectual output of the academic community of ANU and associated researchers," the ANU E Press offers an OA [http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles collection] "across a wide variety of academic disciplines" that is also available for print-on-demand purchase. Authors retain their copyrights, and ANU holds distribution rights; [http://epress.anu.edu.au/help/faq-copyright-and-permission details] are available.

== B ==

*[https://open.bccampus.ca/ B.C. Open Textbook Project]
**The [https://open.bccampus.ca/ B.C. Open Textbook Project] is a publisher of open textbooks coordinated by [https://open.bccampus.ca/ BCcampus] launched in [https://open.bccampus.ca/about-2/ October 2012]. Titles are published under Creative Commons licenses, available in multiple digital formats including e-book and print-on-demand.

* [http://www.baen.com/ Baen Books]
** Baen Books is a science fiction and fantasy publisher whose “author(s) can, at their own personal discretion, put up online for free any book published by Baen”; this collection, called the [http://www.baen.com/library/books.asp Baen Free Library], has been operational since [http://www.baen.com/library/default.asp 2000]. These author-submitted titles are gratis OA, with [http://www.baen.com/FAQS.asp print and electronic] versions available for purchase, as well as [http://www.webscription.net/ webscriptions].

* [http://www.uni-weimar.de/en/university/structure/central-university-facilities/university-press/ Bauhaus-Universität Weimar University Press]. '''No longer active.'''
** [Original entry:] The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar University Press operates as a division of the library and publishes print media covering a “wide range of artistic and scientific publications from all four faculties at the university.” The gratis OA titles, which have been published since [http://www.dailynet.de/BildungTraining/20318.php 2008], can be found [http://www.uni-weimar.de/cms/en/university/central-university-facilities/university-press/online-verfuegbare-titel.html here]. Priced editions are available for purchase. [http://e-pub.uni-weimar.de/doku/urheberrecht.php Copyright] and [http://e-pub.uni-weimar.de/uni/licenses.php?la=de licensing] information and [http://e-pub.uni-weimar.de/doku/nutzung.php conditions of use] are available.'' 
** [Update:] In 2014 this entry became outdated. Since January 1, 2014 the University Press is an imprint of the commercial publisher [http://www.vdg-weimar.de/ Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften]. Open Access contents have been disappeared from the publisher's website but remain available in the Weimar institutional repository ([http://e-pub.uni-weimar.de/opus4/solrsearch/index/search/searchtype/simple/start/0/rows/10/query/universit%C3%A4tsverlag/sortfield/score/sortorder/desc Search: Universitätsverlag]). 

*[http://commons.pacificu.edu/beetree/ Bee Tree Books]. 
**[http://commons.pacificu.edu/beetree/ Bee Tree Books] is a publisher of monographs connected to [http://www.pacificu.edu/ Pacific University] by author or content, operating as an imprint of [http://www.pacificu.edu/libraries Pacific University Libraries] announced in [http://www.pacificu.edu/about-us/news-events/pacifics-bee-tree-books-publishes-collection-historic-writings December 2015]. Bee Tree Books publishes primarily open access titles, outlining that "Authors retain copyright for all works published through Bee Tree.". Paid print-on-demand options available.

* [http://www.berlinacademic.com/index.php?id=1&L=1 Berlin Academic]
** Berlin Academic was founded in 2010 by Berlin Verlag and sister company Bloomsbury Publishing. Their first titles are forthcoming, but Berlin Academic [http://www.berlinacademic.com/index.php?id=4&L=1 will publish] both English and German language academic and professional work in the humanities and social sciences. While Berlin Academic has a "special focus on digital developments and Open Access," print on demand and ebooks will be available for purchase. Berlin Academic’s [http://www.berlinacademic.com/index.php?id=81&L=1 publication models] are flexible, and their [http://www.berlinacademic.com/index.php?id=82&L=1 licensing], based on Creative Commons licenses, is the author's choice.

*[http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com Bloomsbury Academic]
** Bloomsbury Academic is an imprint of [http://www.bloomsbury.com/ Bloomsbury Publishing] for OA books in the social sciences and humanities.  Most of its books are OA, and all its OA books are also available in print editions.  OA editions are published under [http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/page/28/faqs CC-BY-NC licenses]. In 2009, it purchased a back-list of upper level textbooks from Hodder Arnold, and from Duckworth Academic and Bristol Classical Press in 2010.

* [http://bookboon.com/uk Bookboon]
** Founded in November 2008, Bookboon.com provides all its customized, European-academician authored publications gratis OA; an e-mail address and name of the state in which user is dwelling is required for access. Advertisements in the e-books are used to generate funding. Bookboon specializes in [http://bookboon.com/us/textbooks textbooks], and its holdings cover thirty-one textbook topics; [http://bookboon.com/us/travel-guides travel guides] for six continents; and books covering thirteen [http://bookboon.com/us/business business subjects]. [http://bookboon.com/us/textbooks/info/terms Terms of Service] are available.

*[https://www.boundless.com/ Boundless]
** A Boston-based company that uses free, open-source information to rebuild free [https://www.boundless.com/books/ digital textbooks] textbooks published under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)] license for students. 
** Curates "the best free online educational content to cover the same concepts" in a student's assigned textbook and aligns the content to the student's textbook’s table of contents. It provides these alternative online textbooks with interactive features in [https://www.boundless.com/textbooks/ 18 college-level subjects]. 
** Works directly with pillars of the [http://www.oercommons.org/community/ Open Educational Resources (OER) community].

*[http://www.brill.com/ Brill]
**[http://www.brill.com/brill-open-0 Brill Open] is an offshoot of [http://www.brill.com/ Brill Publishing], Brill Open allows authors to make their work freely accessible in exchange for a [http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwbooks/article/Brill-Extends-Brill-Open-to-Include-Books-20130819#.U9vGL4BdUvI publication charge]. Books and articles will be available under a [http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons] license, either [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ CC-BY] or [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ CC-BY-NC.] Both books and articles published under Brill and its imprints are applicable, and freely accessible on [http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/ Brill's Online Books and Journals platform]. Brill Open publishes [http://www.brill.com/about/open-access/coming-soon-new-suite-open-access-journals four open access journals]: Brill Open Biology, Brill Open Humanities, Brill Open Law, and Brill Open Social Science.
**[http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/24685542 Journal of Islamic Ethics] is an open journal and monograph series published by [http://www.brill.com/ Brill] in partnership with [http://www.hbku.edu.qa/ Hamad Bin Khalifa University] announced in [http://www.brill.com/news/hamad-bin-khalifa-university-qatar-and-brill-collaborate-new-open-access-journal-and-book April 2016]. The first publication of this series [http://www.brill.com/news/hamad-bin-khalifa-university-qatar-and-brill-collaborate-new-open-access-journal-and-book scheduled for 2017]; all issues planned for release in print and digital format.

== C ==
* [http://www.cairn.info/ Cairn]
** In French. [http://www.cairn.info/a-propos.php Carin.Info] is the combined effort of four publishing houses, [http://www.editions-belin.com/ Belin], [http://www.deboeck.com/ De Boeck], [http://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/ La Decouverte], and [http://www.editions-eres.com/ Eres]. It is independent from the publishing house [http://www.editions-cairn.fr/ Cairn Editions]. They offer both print and e-books. Find details of their OA editions [http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2014/01/open-access-archaeology-books-from-cairn.html here].

*[http://calclassicalstudies.org/ California Classical Studies]
** [http://calclassicalstudies.org/?page_id=5 Launched] on October 8, 2012, and supported in its initial phase (2013-2015) by the [http://www.mellon.org/ Andrew W. Mellon Foundation], California Classical Studies is a publication series based out of [http://www.classics.berkeley.edu/ The Department of Classics of the University of California, Berkeley]. It publishes long-form peer-reviewed scholarship with online [http://escholarship.org/uc/ucbclassics_ccs open access] and [http://escholarship-california_classical_studies.lulu.com/spotlight/ print-on-demand] availability. 
** The series aims to disseminate "basic research, data-heavy research, including archaeological research, and highly specialized research of the kind that is either hard to place with the leading publishers in Classics or extremely expensive for libraries and individuals when produced by a leading academic publisher."

*[http://www.clrn.org/home/ California Learning Resource Network]
**[http://www.clrn.org/home/about.cfm Launched in December 1999 and suspended in June 2014], the California Learning Resource Network (CLRN) supplies “educators with a ‘one-stop’ resource for critical information needed for the selection of supplemental electronic learning resources aligned to the State Board of Education academic content standards,” which includes [http://www.clrn.org/browse/index.cfm/web-info-links/?type=Free%20Textbooks~943 digital textbooks]. CLRN links to external OA textbooks resources, some of which are available as print-on-demand editions. 

*[http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/cambridge-open-access Cambridge Open]
**[http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/cambridge-open-access Cambridge Open], operating under [http://www.cambridge.org/ Cambridge University Press], publishes [http://www.cambridge.org/academic/cambridge-open-access/gold-open-access-journals/ journals] and [http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/cambridge-open-access/gold-open-access-books monographs] under [http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/cambridge-open-access/creative-commons-licenses Creative Commons] licenses. [http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/cambridge-open-access/gold-open-access-journals Journal publications] are available under both gold and hybrid models. [http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/cambridge-open-access/gold-open-access-books Monographs] are published in e-book format, paid print and digital versions available. Publisher includes support for Green OA, policies available for [http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/cambridge-open-access/green-open-access-policy journals] and [http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/cambridge-open-access/green-open-access-books-policy monographs]. 

*[http://chs.harvard.edu/ The Center for Hellenic Studies]
**[http://chs.harvard.edu/ The Center for Hellenic Studies] is a publisher of "books, journals, proceedings of colloquia, discussions, databases, lectures, and other materials, [http://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/869?menuId=3 both online and in print]" in the area of Hellenic Studies. [http://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/869?menuId=3 Publications] "displayed online" licensed under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].

*[http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/ CK-12 Foundation] 
** CK-12, “funded by the Amar Foundation and by Vinod and Neeru Khosla,” produces [http://www.ck12.org/about/about-us customizable textbooks] for K-12 students. Operating since 2007, the [http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/browselist/ library] is currently “focused on math and science for middle-school and high-school students,” but aims to grow in [http://flexbooks-wiki.ck12.org/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Information_about_FlexBooks scope and coverage]; national curriculum standards are met, and California and Virginia have [http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2009/0611/p02s14-usgn.html explored] FlexBooks. Print editions are not available, but a print partnership is expected in the [http://flexbooks-wiki.ck12.org/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Can_you_help_me_get_actual_books.3F future]. FlexBooks employ libre OA [http://www.ck12.org/about/about-us/technology CC-by-NC-SA] licensing, and [http://www.ck12.org/about/terms terms of use] are available.

*[http://www.clacso.org.ar/clacso/novedades_editoriales/libros_clacso/libros_listado_completo.php CLACSO-Latin America Social Science Council]
**[http://clacso.org CLACSO], a network of [http://www.clacso.org.ar/clacso/centros_miembros_clacso/inicio.php 346 social science institutions in 25 countries] publishes all its 729 books, with only a very few exceptions, and 2 journals, in open access within [http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/ CLACSO´s digital repository].  Mainly books in Spanish and Portuguese, and a growing collection in English, with research results from its member institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.  The books are also offered in priced printed version.  The OA collection started in 1998.  The Argentine copyright law requires in the printed version indicating copyright restrictions, but CLACSO adds, in the following line, a statement indicating that the full-text is available in CLACSO´s digital repository which has a CC-BY-NC-SA license for its contents.

*[http://www.cnrseditions.fr/ CNRS Editions]
**[http://www.cnrseditions.fr/ CNRS Editions] is the publishing branch of [http://www.cnrs.fr/ Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique], with [http://books.openedition.org/editionscnrs/ 159 titles] currently available on the external platform [http://books.openedition.org/ OpenEdition Books]. OpenEdition Books is a partial OA branch of OpenEdition established in 2013 dedicated to books in the humanities, available in [http://www.openedition.org/8900 PDF and ePub formats] with OA titles available for readership in [http://www.openedition.org/10918 HTML]. Specific license not included in [http://www.openedition.org/6540?lang=en licensing terms].

* [http://www.co-action.net/ Co-Action Publishing]
** Founded in January 2007, Co-Action Publishing is a for-profit company whose aim is to  provide fair-priced services to societies wishing to pursue scholarly, open access publishing, while developing "...an international list of scholarly Open Access journals and books for a global audience" (Co-Action Publishing, 2011). Additionally, Co-Action Publishing maintains relationships with funding agencies to help societies acquire the financial resources they need to pursue their OA publishing endeavors. Co-Action Publishing has also created an [http://www.doaj.org/bpguide/ online guide] to provide groups key knowledge on how to launch and operate scholarly, open access journals. Co-Action provides publishing, administration, consulting, training, and peer-review services for books, journals, meeting minutes or conferences, dissertations, and more. Available [http://www.co-action.net/journals/Journals_index.php?%20sessid=02661871&user=346351&env=Opera&item=no journals] and [http://www.co-action.net/books/Books_index.php?%20sessid=02661871&user=346351&env=Opera&item=no books] are listed. [http://www.co-action.net/authors/authors4.php?%20sessid=02661871&user=346351&env=Opera&item=no Copyright and licensing] details are provided.

* [http://knol.google.com/k/collabooks-the-collaborative-books-project# Collaborative Books Project]
** A collaborative textbook publisher, the Collaborative Books Project (Collabooks), allows for anyone to edit and contribute to their textbooks.  Collabooks focuses one four main categories of books: how-to, medicine and health, science, and philosophy, and there is a subset of the knol.gooogle.com beta service that allows people to self-publish articles through the website.  Though all knols are available to the public for free, it is unclear that anyone has created a Collabook for distribution at this point. Licensing information is [http://knol.google.com/k/faqs-for-authors-of-chapters-in-books#view provided].

*[http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/ College Open Textbooks]
**College Open Textbooks is an entirely OA, Creative Commons licensed provider of peer-reviewed textbooks. The project is funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and is supported by a large consortium of academic, non-profit, and governmental institutions. The booklist is available [http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/opentextbookcontent here]. There does not appear to be a print-on-demand pay service; the CC licensing allows users to print off their own physical copies. See also CCCOER, below. 

*[http://oerconsortium.org/ Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER)]
**CCCOER is a large consortia that provides open access digital textbooks. Many of the books are [http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/ libre OA], licensed under Creative Commons, but they also offer gratis OA material that is [http://oerconsortium.org/copyrighted-digital-textbooks/ free to read online]. The content is generally intended for use in community college courses. The group is part of the [http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/ College Open Textbooks] service, which carries peer-reviewed open textbooks.

*[http://ccdigitalpress.org/ Computers and Composition Digital Press]
** [http://ccdigitalpress.org/about/history-press Founded] in 2007, in the spring 2008 the Computers and Composition Digital Press became affiliated with [http://www.futureofthebook.org/ The Institute for the Future of the Book], and in the fall of 2008 the press became an imprint of the [http://www.usu.edu/usupress/ Utah State University Press].  From its call for papers c. June 2008 (now offline, but quoted from a [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/06/consortial-university-press-dedicated.html blog post at OAN]): "The mission of Computers and Composition Digital Press (CCDP) is to ensure open access to information for scholars worldwide and to provide a venue for the Web publication of peer-reviewed scholarly projects in a wide-variety of forms (ranging from primarily textual/verbal ebooks to integrated multimedia projects incorporating video, audio, animation, etc.)..." Available titles are [http://ccdigitalpress.org/ebooks-and-projects listed], and copyright and licensing policies are [http://ccdigitalpress.org/submission-process/copyright-fair-use-and-permissions addressed].

*[http://www.library.cornell.edu/ Cornell University Library]
**The [http://ifup.cit.cornell.edu/index.html Internet-First University Press], launched in [http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb04/Internet-first.ws.html January 2004], is an OA repository [http://ifup.cit.cornell.edu/books.html collection] at Cornell University. The university-related scholarly titles are available electronically “without fees or restrictions on personal use”; permissions and licensing information is [http://ifup.cit.cornell.edu/index.html available] from Cornell University's [http://dcaps.library.cornell.edu/ Digital Consulting & Production Services]. Print on demand is supported by [http://www.cbsds.cornell.edu/pod.html Cornell Business Services (CBS) Digital Services].
**[http://signale.cornell.edu/ Signale] is a joint venture of [http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/ Cornell University Press] and [http://www.library.cornell.edu/ Cornell University Library] launched in [http://news.library.cornell.edu/news/signale-launch 2010]. The book series publishes [http://signale.cornell.edu/signalebooks.html works] on “modern German letters, cultures, and thought”; some of the titles are available gratis OA, and print editions are available for purchase.

*[http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/ Cornell University Press]
**Under the [http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/humanities-open-book-program Humanities Open Book Program], [http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/ Cornell University Press] aims to produce [https://securegrants.neh.gov/PublicQuery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=HZ-234074-16 20 open e-books from titles originally published by Cornell University Press] which are now available in PDF format on [http://muse.jhu.edu/about/cup_open_access_books.html Project MUSE] under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ CC BY-NC-ND] license. The [http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/humanities-open-book-program Humanities Open Book Program], supported by the [http://www.neh.gov/ NEH] and [https://mellon.org/ Andrew W. Mellon Foundation], was [https://securegrants.neh.gov/PublicQuery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=HZ-234074-16 awarded to Cornell University from January 2016] for a 12 month period. 

*[http://www.escholarship.org/uc/cioa_cda Cotsen Institute Archaeology Press]
** The Cotsen Institute is a research organization that specializes in "the creation, dissemination, and conservation of archaeological knowledge and heritage." Their press, operating since 1975, publishes academic titles in nine series, and one digital series hosted on the University of California's [http://www.escholarship.org/ eScholarship] site; "[o]ut of print books that are older than five years are gradually made available for free download". They currently offer full-text downloads of 14 publications, published between 1986 and 2011. Print on demand copies are [http://escholarship-cioa.lulu.com/spotlight/ available] for a fee.  

*[http://counterpress.org.uk/ Counterpress]
** Launched in [http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/08/26/introducing-counterpress-a-new-open-access-publisher-of-law-and-critical-theory/ August 2013] (see further details [http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/09/11/counterpress-critical-legal-strategy/ here]), Counterpress is an open access publisher associated with the website, [http://criticallegalthinking.com/ Critical Legal Thinking (CLT)]. Counterpress publishes law and critical theory [http://counterpress.org.uk/titles/ titles] with their goal being to provide "critical legal scholars, allied theorists, philosophers, and other trans/inter-disciplinary academics an alternative to traditional book publishers." While printed books will be available at traditional and online bookstores, e-book versions will be provided on a pay-what-you-can basis, and a full open access option will be made available.

== D ==

*[http://degruyteropen.com/ De Gruyter Open] 
**DG Open emerged in 2014 as an imprint of De Gruyter, dedicated exclusively to open access. De Gruyter Open publishes open access journals and books, including monographs, textbooks and edited volumes. The publisher offers on-line publication in PDF and EPUB file formats as well as the print on demand option. Books published by De Gruyter Open are licensed under the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Creative Commons Non Commercial, No Derivatives License], unless otherwise required by funders. [http://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=advancedSearch&page=3&language=&fromYear=&fromWeb=1&toYear=&query=%28pub%3ADe%20%20pub%3AGruyter%29/ List of De Gruyter Open's books in DOAB].

*[http://www.dianepublishing.net/ Diane Publishing]
**In [http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2006/09/diane-publishing-opens-books-for.html September 2006], Diane Publishing “made all of its titles in [http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search Google Book Search] 100 percent viewable.” These gratis OA Diane Publishing [http://goo.gl/fhuCA works] include government documents and reports. Print copies may be purchased directly from [http://www.dianepublishing.net/ Diane Publishing], along with the remainder of the titles they distribute. Google’s [http://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/tos.html terms of service] apply.

== E ==
*[http://www.e-ir.info/ E-International Relations (E-IR)]
**[http://www.e-ir.info/ E-International Relations (E-IR)] is a publisher of open monographs, collections, and textbooks focused on international politics in series [http://www.e-ir.info/e-ir-open-access/ E-IR Open Access] and [http://www.e-ir.info/e-ir-foundations-open-access-books-for-international-relations-beginners/ E-IR Foundations] in addition to [http://www.e-ir.info/e-ir-edited-collections/ E-IR Edited Collections]. Published works are [http://www.e-ir.info/publishing-agreement/ released] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ CC BY-NC 4.0] license, [http://www.e-ir.info/book-proposals/ available] in PDF and paid print format.

*[http://english.utah.edu/eclipse/ Eclipse]
**Eclipse is both a publisher and an archive of “radical small-press writing,” noted in [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007_05_20_fosblogarchive.html#8537959245182287192 in 2007 OAN] and hosted by the University of Utah. The collective OA works may be found by [http://english.utah.edu/eclipse/titles.html title] or [http://english.utah.edu/eclipse/authors.html author]. No print options are listed, and licensing and terms of use are not addressed.

*[http://www.egyptologyforum.org/ Egyptologists' Electronic Forum (EEF)]
**The [http://www.egyptologyforum.org/  Egyptologists' Electronic Forum (EEF)] is an email list supporting access to digitized external resources in the structure of compiled lists, including journals, periodicals, newsletters, volumes, monograph series, video and audio. Specific access and licensing terms are undefined and resource dependent. 

*[http://elangdell.cali.org/ eLangdell Press]
** Supported by the [http://www.cali.org/ Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)], eLangdell Press publishes free, open eBooks for legal education.
** Published through [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA 3.0] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC BY-SA 3.0] [http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons] licenses. 

*[http://www.eldritchpress.org/ Eldritch Press]
**This site is no longer updated, and as a result many of the links do not work. The live book links are now made available through links to the Web Archive. These titles are in the public domain and are distributed with Creative Commons licensing.

*[http://www.egu.eu European Geosciences Union (EGU)]
**The EGU is the largest scientific association in Europe for the geosciences and planetary and space sciences, founded in 2002 as a merger of the European Geophysical Society (EGS) and the European Union of Geosciences (EUG). The EGU offers quality scientific discussion and publications written by more than 60,000 scientists worldwide for free access on the Internet.  EGU Open Access publications are listed [http://www.egu.eu/publications/other-publications.html here]. All OA publications are available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution Licensing].

== F ==

* [http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/ Flatworld]
** Flatworld offers free textbooks online as well as print-on-demand softcovers, audio books, and chapters, as well as self-print options.  Released in conjunction with professors who in turn [http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/educators offer the links] to their students, Flatworld titles are listed [http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/?sessionGUID=5cde3c37-8320-601b-6563-e85db4d58817&webSyncID=55d12710-e444-9829-4010-ec6348009323&sessionGUID=5cde3c37-8320-601b-6563-e85db4d58817 here]. [http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/legal Terms of use] are discussed.

* [http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/ FlexBooks]
** FlexBooks allows the user to create a fully customized, standards-aligned, free digital textbook for grades K-12. After registering, the site allows the user to select chapters to create a customized book, name the work, and then share it. FlexBooks will automatically reorganize chapter numbering. FlexBooks are published under CC-BY-NC-SA licenses (see the foundation's [http://www.ck12.org/about/terms terms of use]).

* [http://www.flyingpublisher.com/ Flying Publisher]
** Flying Publisher is an online publisher of medical guides, books, and articles.  This material is made available to the public free of charge through the websites [http://www.ademeo.com/ Amedeo], [http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/ Free Books 4 Doctors], and the Flying Publisher websites.  In addition, printed copies of the material are available for a fee through [http://www.amazon.com/ Amazon].  Authors are asked to submit articles or guides of no more than 75 pages. 

* [http://www.fordhampress.com/ Fordham University Press]
** Since 1907, Fordham University Press has published works on the "humanities and the social sciences...[the] metropolitan New York region and books of interest to the general public." In the [http://www.fordhamimpressions.com/?p=422 fall of 2009], the press partnered with Fordham's Walsh Library to create an OA [http://fordham.bepress.com/press/ Electronic Books] collection in Digital Research@Fordham, the university's institutional repository. Print editions are available for purchase.

*[http://www.fountainpublishers.co.ug/# Fountain Publishers Limited]
**[http://www.fountainpublishers.co.ug/aboutus.php?osCsid=fj17ek2d3e5t94tu2e9rffg3m1 Fountain Publishers], “one of East Africa’s leading publishing houses with over 1000 titles in school textbooks, academic, general, fiction, tourism, children and local language books,” started [http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/palm-africa/2009/05/24/genocide-by-denial-in-uganda experimenting] with gratis OA books in 2009, and currently offers a few such [http://www.fountainpublishers.co.ug/index.php/cPath/21?osCsid=fj17ek2d3e5t94tu2e9rffg3m1 titles], which address [http://www.fountainpublishers.co.ug/index.php/cPath/21_38?osCsid=fj17ek2d3e5t94tu2e9rffg3m1 "health and welfare"] and [http://www.fountainpublishers.co.ug/index.php/cPath/21_36?osCsid=fj17ek2d3e5t94tu2e9rffg3m1 "government and public administration"] topics. Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND licensing is used with these works, and print versions are available directly from Fountain Publishers.

* [http://www.fhsst.org/ Free High School Science Texts]
** The Free High School Science Texts project aims to promote science education in South Africa by providing free science and math textbooks, written by volunteers, to students; the latest releases, from September 2010, are available as PDFs [http://www.fhsst.org/node/8097 here]. The books are offered under the GNU Free Documentation License and are royalty-free.

*[http://freewords.org/freepress/ Free Press]
**Free Press publishes “writing of all kinds - any language, any style, genre or subject matter, experimental or traditional, unpublished or previously published.” Initially launched in [http://freewords.org/front.html August 2006] as “a project of artist Sal Randolph,” Free Press [http://freewords.org/freepress/info/participate/ accepted] submitted works "from September 16 to October 15, 2006". Following the exhibit, "the Free Press site will remain, and people will be able to download books and order print copies" from  Lulu.com. All of the [http://freewords.org/freepress/pool/book/ titles] are libre OA, and Creative Commons [http://freewords.org/freepress/you/info/license/ licensing] is used. 
 
*[http://www.frenchcreekpress.com/ French Creek Press] 
**French Creek Press is a “a print-on-demand publishing and technical communications house catering to the needs of the high-tech industry and independent authors” that has been operating since 2009. Its OA series, “eBooks of the Classics,” serves as a sample for users to explore ebook functionality with the provided  [http://www.frenchcreekpress.com/ebooks/ titles]. Print on demand is only available for French Creek Press’s author list, and licensing is not addressed.

*[http://www.fullbooks.com/ FullBooks.com]
**FullBooks.com hosts “thousands of full-text free books,” of [http://www.fullbooks.com/ classic works]. It is an ad-supported site that was created in 2004 and is owned by Advameg. Licensing is not noted and print editions are not available.

==G==
*[http://www.orientlab.net/pubs/ Gaziantep Regional Project Occasional Papers] (GRPOP), OrientLab
**[http://www.orientlab.net/pubs/ Gaziantep Regional Project Occasional Papers] is a series of "non-periodical scientific studies and reports", a publication series from [http://www.orientlab.net/ OrientLab] operated by [http://www.disci.unibo.it/it Bologna University Department of History and Human Cultures], first published in November [http://acnp.unibo.it/cgi-ser/start/it/cnr/df-p.tcl?catno=3014718&libr=&person=MO027&B=2&proposto=NO&year_poss_from=%7B%7D&year_poss_to=%7B%7D 2013]. Titles are downloadable in PDF format; paid [http://www.antequem.it/it/GRPOP-a282 print format available]. All titles are freely downloadable, but specific licensing and use terms are undefined.

*[http://www.getty.edu/publications/ Getty Publications]
**[http://www.getty.edu/publications/ Getty Publications] is a partial OA publisher of [http://www.getty.edu/publications/about.html books] in the areas of "art, photography, archaeology, architecture, conservation, and the humanities". [http://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/ Getty Publications Virtual Library] began in [http://www.getty.edu/publications/about.html 2014], supporting access to select titles for personal use in online, PDF, and paid print format. In [http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/embracing-the-digital-future-of-art-books/ May 2016], Getty Publications released two "open access collection catalogues" under a Creative Commons license, available online in addition to formats including PDF, data sets, print, plain text, and iPad and Kindle compatible ebooks.

*[https://www.gitenberg.org/ Gitenberg]
**[https://www.gitenberg.org/ Gitenberg] is a collaborative Git-based digital library and "open source community curating and publishing highly usable and attractive ebooks in the public domain" operating under the [http://ebookfoundation.org/ Free Ebook Foundation]. All [https://www.gitenberg.org/ Gitenberg] titles are in the [https://www.gitenberg.org/license public domain] excluding cover images by [https://shop.thecreativeactionnetwork.com/collections/recovering-the-classics Recovering the Classics] licensed under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ CC-BY-NC]. Gitenberg titles are accessible on [https://github.com/GITenberg/ Github] in varied formats.

* [http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/ Global Text Project]
** The Global Text Project began in 2004 and creates OA electronic textbooks aimed at a "range of topics typically encountered in a university’s undergraduate programs". Creative Commons licensing is [http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/news_faqs?q=node/14 used], and the current booklist may be found [http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/books here].

*[http://gluejar.com/ Gluejar]
**Launched in [http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2012/01/unglueit-preview-all-systems-go.html January 2012],  "Gluejar works with rights holders to determine a good price for ungluing their book". Titles that meet the required goal of the rights holder through crowdfunding are then made available under Creative Commons licensing. Details of the model are [https://unglue.it/ available] and [http://publishingperspectives.com/2012/01/unglue-it-crowdfunds-unlimited-licenses-for-beloved-e-books/ evolving]. 

*[http://goa1556.goa-india.org/index.php?page=join-the-goa-book-club Goa, 1556] 
**Goa, 1556, launched in 2007, publishes Goa-related nonfiction. About half of its [http://goa1556.goa-india.org/index.php?page=goa-1556-booklist booklist] is available OA through Google Books, and all of the titles may be purchased as print editions. Goa, 1556 “supports the principles of copyleft, sharing information and knowledge, and following alternative modes of publishing,” and as such works with their authors to encourage the use of open licensing, often through Creative Commons.

== H ==
*[http://hbkupress.com/ Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)]
**[http://hbkupress.com/  Hamad Bin Khalifa Univerisity Press] is a university press publisher of journals and monographs previously known as "Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation (BQFP)", releasing all journal articles under a [http://hbkupress.com/page/open-access-and-hbku-press CC BY license].  In addition, [http://hbkupress.com/ Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press] operates open academic publishing platform [http://www.qscience.com/ QScience].

*[http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ Hamburg University Press]
**Per Google Translate, Hamburg University Press “publishes selected works of scientists from the University of Hamburg as well as other scientific and science-related institutions.” Since [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007/06/hamburg-university-press-becomes-all-oa.html 2007], all of the [http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/reihen/ titles] have been [http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/leitlinien/ gratis OA], though print-on-demand editions are available for purchase. Creative Commons licensing may be [http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/publikationsprozess/ used] by the author.

* [http://www.m-hikari.com/index.html Hikari Ltd.] 
** Hikari Ltd. is a Bulgaria-based publisher of peer-reviewed OA journals and monographs specializing in mathematics, physics, engineering, and biology. The publisher offers online OA only; print-on-demand service is not available. Publication fees are the main source of funding. The website does not give any copyright or permissions information. A full listing of their [http://www.m-hikari.com/journals.html journals] and [http://www.m-hikari.com/bmp.html monographs] leads users directly to the OA content.

*[http://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/ HSRC Press]
** HSRC Press publishes high-quality social science research, both the "output of the Human Science Research Council and externally authored works.” In 2004 the press switched to a hybrid publishing model. Since then, most [http://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/home.php?cat=1&browse=a titles] are available as either gratis OA or print-on-demand editions. Licensing terms are not discussed.

== I ==

*[http://iupressonline.iupress.org/ Indiana University Press Online]
**Established in the [http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/11941.html spring of 2009], Indiana University Press Online provides gratis OA to some of Indiana University Press's scholarly book titles; several collections are available: "African Studies; African American and Diaspora Studies; Bioethics; Jewish and Holocaust Studies; Military History; Music; Philosophy; Reference; Religion; Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; and United Nations Intellectual History". Print editions of all [http://iupressonline.iupress.org/~bookindex titles] are available for purchase through Indiana University Press. [http://iupressonline.iupress.org/termsofuse Terms of use] are provided.

*[http://isaw.nyu.edu/publications The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), NYU] 
**ISAW was founded to support research in the ancient world, and publication—in print, online, and in person—is one of the key ways we share our research methodologies and findings with both other scholars and the general public. This page describes some of publications that have been produced by ISAW or under its sponsorship. As outlined in the faculty statement on assessment of research (PDF), we aim for quality and long-term accessibility in all our research outputs, regardless of medium, while embracing collaboration and both traditional and new forms of review and assessment..

*[http://www.intechweb.org InTech] (also known as Sciyo, see [[Publishers of OA books#S|below]])
**[http://www.intechweb.org InTech] is a publisher of open monographs, journals, and conference proceedings in the fields of science, technology and medicine, launched in [http://www.intechopen.com/our-vision.html 2004]. It has published more than 1600 books, and twelve scientific journals. Monographs published under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ CC BY-NC], journals published under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY], published digitally with print options available. It recently released [http://www.intechopen.com/ InTechOpen.com] to host Intech's OA publications.

== K ==
*[http://kismet.press/ Kismet Press]. 
**[http://kismet.press/ Kismet Press], founded in [http://kismet.press/about-us/ 2014], follows a print-on-demand business model publishing "[http://us10.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e75395cfa252ddbb7668f1417&id=4cd4bf193a monographs, edited volumes, translations, and booklets in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences]". Published works are available under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ CC-BY-NC-ND] or [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ CC-BY-NC-SA] upon publication, offering paid print and and electronic copies.

*[http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/ Knowledge Unlatched]
**In [http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Pilot_Launch_05Oct2013.pdf October 2013] the Knowledge Unlatched "Pilot Collection" launched. This [http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=314fa411ba5eaaee7244c95e1&id=db63895247&e=87c5ed390f collaboration with Open Access Publishing in European Networks] resulted in 28 Creative Commons-licensed [http://collections.knowledgeunlatched.org/collection-availability-1/ titles] from 13 participating academic publishers. Libraries may buy print or electronic versions of the work, but the business model relies instead on institutions pitching in to pay for the first-copy costs of the participating publishers (see details [http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/about/how-it-works/ here]).

*[http://www.kubon-sagner.de/ Kubon & Sagner Media GmbH]
**[http://www.kubon-sagner.de/ Kubon & Sagner Media GmbH] is a subscription service provider focused on Eastern European publications, supporting access to OA books and journals through the [http://digital.kubon-sagner.com/ Kubon & Sagner Digital Library] in formats including PDF and paid print options.

== L ==

* [http://langsci-press.org/ Language Science Press]
** Publishing open-access, peer-reviewed books about linguistics, Language Science Press started in August 2012. The imprint grew out of the OALI Open Access initiative, coordinated in Berlin by [http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~stefan/ Stefan Müller] out of Freie Universitat Berlin. The press publishes several [http://langsci-press.org/series catalog series]. Titles are freely available as PDFs and print-on-demand services are available for a fee. Books are published under Creative Common's [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/  CC-BY] license by default. 

* [http://www.la-press.com/ Libertas Academica]
** Founded in 2005, Libertas Academica publishes and provides free downloading of open access, peer-reviewed [http://www.la-press.com/journal_homepage.php articles and journals] that pertain to the fields of medicine, technology, and science; books will be forthcoming in [http://www.la-press.com/book_homepage.php 2012]. On the [http://www.la-press.com/about_us.php?folder_id=134#pagelink_688 Industry Reprint and Royalty Services] page, Libertas Academica discusses their partner who can provide fee-based, discounted reprints, and a purchasable "Rights to reproduce." [http://www.la-press.com/about_us.php?folder=Copyright%2C+Privacy+Policy+and+Terms+of+Use#pagelink_628 Copyright and terms of use] are discussed.

*[http://www.ep.liu.se/index.en.asp Linköping University Electronic Press]
** Focused on research materials from Linköping University and the Region Östergötland, Linköping Electronic Press provides PDF full-text versions of all [http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/resultList.jsf?aq=%5B%5B%5D%5D&aq2=%5B%5B%7B%22publicationTypeCode%22%3A%5B%22book%22%5D%7D%5D%5D&af=%5B%5D&searchType=RESEARCH&query=&sortOrder=relevance_sort_desc&onlyFullText=true&noOfRows=50&dswid=-8389 OA titles]. They also publish Ph.D. these, books, research articles, reports, chapters, and student work. Book authors [http://www.ep.liu.se/copyright/index.en.asp retain copyright] in their work.

*[http://www.lunduniversitypress.lu.se/ Lund University Press]
**[http://www.lunduniversitypress.lu.se/ Lund University Press] is a university press publisher of monographs partnered with [http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/ Manchester University Press] with an expected first publication date of [http://www.lunduniversitypress.lu.se/en/buy-our-books/ 2017]. Published titles will be released by [http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/ Manchester University Press] through [http://www.oapen.org/home OAPEN] with print available; specific licensing terms undefined.

== M ==

*[http://www.openlibrary.manchester.ac.uk/ Manchester Open Library] (MOL)
**[http://www.openlibrary.manchester.ac.uk/ Manchester Open Library] (MOL) is a publisher of scholarly journals operating as a "partnership between the University of Manchester Library and Manchester University Press (MUP).". Titles published under [https://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons] licenses.

*[http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/open-access/ Manchester University Press (MUP)]
**[http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/ Manchester University Press] is a university press offering open access publishing options for [http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/open-access-journals/ journals] and [http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/openmonographs/ monographs], since their initial collaboration with [http://www.oapen.org/home OAPEN] starting in 2011. Monographs available in paid Kindle, iBook, and Nook formats. Open titles are published under [http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/open-access/ Creative Commons licenses]. 

*[http://manifold.umn.edu/ Manifold Scholarship]
**[http://manifold.umn.edu/ Manifold Scholarship] is a open source monograph publishing platform currently in development by the [http://www.upress.umn.edu/ University of Minnesota Press] in connection with [http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Home CUNY Graduate Center]'s [http://gcdsl.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ GC Digital Scholarship Lab] and [http://castironcoding.com/ Cast Iron Coding], funded by the [https://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/university-of-minnesota-at-twin-cities/11500644/ Andrew W. Mellon Foundation] starting in March 2015 for a period of 36 months. 

*[http://books.mdpi.com/ MDPI Books]
**[http://www.mdpi.com/books MDPI Books] is a platform and hybrid publisher of open monographs, theses, and proceedings; titles primarily licensed under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ CC-BY]. Titles are made available on the MDPI Books platform and in PDF, EPUB, and print-on-demand formats. Titles licensed under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ CC-BY] available through MDPI Books [http://www.mdpi.com/books/library Library]. 

*[http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/ MediaCommons Press]
**MediaCommons Press is an “all-electronic scholarly publishing network focused on the field of media studies,” and as such print availability is not discussed. Launched in [http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/content/mediacommons-press 2009], MediaCommons Press publishes libre OA work “from article to monograph length.” Its current [http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/blog/category/books/ booklist] and its [http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/copyright copyright policy] are noted.

*[http://www.medrounds.org/main/ Medrounds Publications]
**Since 2005 Medrounds has published medical “high-quality teaching materials.” The gratis OA titles, which are predominantly ophthalmology related, may be found [http://www.medrounds.org/main/ here] either as "Featured titles" or under the “Online resources” tab. Some titles may be purchased in print form, and terms of use are [http://www.medrounds.org/main/home/terms-of-use.html available].

*[http://projects.digital-cultures.net/meson-press/ Meson Press]
** Run by the [http://hybridpublishing.org/ Hybrid Publishing Lab] at [http://www.leuphana.de/en/home.html Leuphana University of Lüneburg], Meson Press focuses on peer-reviewed Open Access monographs that deal specifically with "digital cultural studies and networked media". They "experiment" with OA titles and "hybrid formats and novel collaborative methods such as book sprints". Their current title, "Rethinking Gamification" was published in June 2014 and is available under CC-BY-SA licensing as an OA PDF or as a print title from Amazon. Both the Hybrid Publishing Lab and Meson Press are projects at the [http://cdc.leuphana.com/ Centre for Digital Cultures].

*[http://mitpress.mit.edu/main/home/default.asp MIT Press]
**MIT Press has [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007/12/six-oa-books-from-mit-press.html experimented] with publishing OA books with parallel print editions. Recent support from the [http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.946881/k.B85/Domestic_Grantmaking__Digital_Media__Learning.htm John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation] helped to underwrite the MIT Press Series on Digital Media and Learning, which "examines the effect of digital media tools on how people learn, network, communicate, and play." Most [http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/browse/browse.asp?serid=170&btype=6&pstart=0 titles] in the series are libre OA, with priced printed editions available. 

*[http://www.humanities-map.net Modern Academic Publishing]
**[http://www.humanities-map.net Modern Academic Publishing] (MAP) is a collaboration between the University of Cologne and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich focusing on the publication of works from early career scholars within the humanities. MAP publishes monographs and theses under the CC-BY licence. 

*[http://www.publishing.monash.edu/ Monash University Publishing]
**In [http://www.publishing.monash.edu/news.html September 2010] Monash University ePress was recast as Monash University Publishing. This transition focused the press' output "on open access publishing, particularly but not exclusively of scholarly monographs." All of the [http://www.publishing.monash.edu/books/index.html titles], which focus on "the humanities and social sciences," are available as gratis OA and may be purchased in print. Copyright remains with Monash University Publishing, details of which may be found [http://www.publishing.monash.edu/about.html#copyright here].

*[https://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/johns-hopkins-university/21500110/ MUSE Open]
**[https://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/johns-hopkins-university/21500110/ Muse Open] is a publishing platform of open monographs [http://musecommons.org/blog/2015/06/02/jhup-receives-grant-to-develop-muse-open/ under development] by [https://muse.jhu.edu/ Project Muse] and [https://www.press.jhu.edu/ Johns Hopkins University Press], funded by the [https://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/johns-hopkins-university/21500110/ Andrew W. Mellon Foundation starting in April 2015] for a period of 9 months. Initial participants include [http://hub.jhu.edu/2015/06/05/project-muse-open-access "The University of Colorado, Cornell University, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of North Carolina"].

== N ==

* [http://www.nap.edu/ The National Academies Press] 
** National Academies Press publishes OA monographs on medicine, engineering, and sciences. The titles are also available to purchase in print form. The NAP began selling PDF book downloads in 1996, and 2011 they lifted the pay wall. All titles are protected by all rights reserved copyright. PDF files may not be shared without permission from the publisher. In order to maximize the impact of their work, however, NAP encourages readers to share the unique URL to the book with their colleagues.

*[http://www.nordicom.gu.se/en Nordicom]
**[http://www.nordicom.gu.se/en Nordicom] is a publisher of "[http://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publikationer/about-publications periodicals, anthologies, monographs, and statistical data and analyses.]", releasing journals and monographs [http://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publikationer/copyright-and-permission under a Creative Commons license]. The majority of open titles published are available in print format; [http://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publikationer/about-publications subscriptions] available.

*[http://library.northeastern.edu/ Northeastern University Libraries]
**[http://library.northeastern.edu/ Northeastern University Libraries] support [http://library.northeastern.edu/services/digital-publishing publishing services], including the re-publication of "selected out-of-print Northeastern University Press titles in open-access digital format with a for-fee print-on-demand option", in coordination with the [http://www.upne.com/ University Press of New England (UPNE)].

== O ==
*[http://www.snf.ch/de/foerderung/wissenschaftskommunikation/oapen-ch/Seiten/default.aspx OAPEN-CH], [http://www.snf.ch/de/Seiten/default.aspx The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)]
**[http://www.snf.ch/de/foerderung/wissenschaftskommunikation/oapen-ch/Seiten/default.aspx OAPEN-CH] is a project conducted by [http://www.snf.ch/de/Seiten/default.aspx The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)] in coordination with external publishers focused on open monograph publication under two [http://www.snf.ch/de/fokusForschung/newsroom/Seiten/news-141218-pilotprojekt-publikationen.aspx business models] starting in [http://www.snf.ch/de/fokusForschung/newsroom/Seiten/news-151217-pilotprojekt-oapen-ch.aspx February 2015] resulting in the publication of [http://www.snf.ch/de/fokusForschung/newsroom/Seiten/news-151217-pilotprojekt-oapen-ch.aspx 27 open titles of the total 54], initiating a second phase of the project in [http://www.snf.ch/de/fokusForschung/newsroom/Seiten/news-151217-pilotprojekt-oapen-ch.aspx February 2016]. Open titles released under Creative Commons license, shown in OAPEN-CH [http://www.snf.ch/SiteCollectionDocuments/oapen_ch_vereinbarung_d.pdf Publisher Agreement]. Open titles available in [http://www.oapen.org/search?title=&creator=&seriestitle=&subject=&isbn=&grant=Swiss+National+Science+Foundation&grantnumber=&year=&year-max=&smode=advanced OAPEN], institutional repositories, and external publisher websites in addition to print format. 

* [http://www.ohiostatepress.org/ The Ohio State University Press]
** [https://ohiostatepress.org/ The Ohio State University Press]' [http://www.ohiostatepress.org/Books/Openaccess.htm Open Access Initiative] supports access to a selected set of digitized monographs available in PDF format. Available under terms, "All such works remain under copyright protection and may not be used for any commercial purpose.".

* [http://www.ontos-verlag.de/index.php Ontos Verlag]
**As a participant in [http://www.project-agora.eu/participants/ontos AGORA: Scholarly Open Access Research in European Philosophy], focusing on "research in Open Access of philosophical books in different business models," Ontos Verlag has offered an OA series, [http://www.ontos-verlag.de/index.php?page=shop.browse&category_id=29&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1 ontosOpen], since October 2010. The series [http://www.ontoslink.com/ titles] focus "on Analytic Philosophy in general and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein in particular," and are available in German and English. Authors may publish OA or convert their TA titles to OA under this series, and the experiment is exploring "hybrid and delayed open access models." Registration is required and [http://www.ontoslink.com/index2.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.tos&pop=1 terms of use] are provided.

*[http://openaccessbooks.nyupress.org/ Open Access Books], [http://nyupress.org/ NYU Press]
**[http://openaccessbooks.nyupress.org/ Open Access Books] is a platform supporting in-browser readership of selected [http://nyupress.org/ NYU Press] monographs licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ CC-BY-NC-SA], announced in [http://blog.dlib.nyu.edu/2014/05/30/open-access-books/ May 2014]. Paid print editions [http://openaccessbooks.nyupress.org/about/ available]. 

* [http://www.oapen.org/xtf/home?brand=oapen Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN)]
** Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) provides free, peer-reviewed, open access e-books (monographs), and edited volumes pertaining to the social sciences and the humanities [http://www.oapen.org/xtf/search?brand=oapen&keyword=download found here]. Further still, OAPEN uses various Creative Commons licenses to provide authors with the means to direct the usage and further dissemination of their works (i.e., attribution, third parties use, commercial use, and derivative works). [http://www.oapen.org/xtf/about?brand=oapen&page=background&subpage=termsconditions Terms and conditions] and [http://www.oapen.org/xtf/about?brand=oapen&page=background&subpage=copyrightoa copyright] details are available.

*[http://www.openbookproject.net/ Open Book Project]
**Open Book Project publishes “high quality, freely distributable textbooks and educational materials on a wide range of topics.” All of the [http://www.openbookproject.net/books/ titles] are libre OA, but are not available in print. Licensing is discussed [http://openbookproject.net/mission.php here].

* [http://www.openbookpublishers.com/ Open Book Publishers]
** Founded in 2008 at the University of Cambridge, Open Book is a nonprofit publisher of peer-reviewed, academic books. The books can be viewed online for free (via Google Books), while digital PDF editions and POD paperback and hardback editions are available for purchase. They are licensed under the CC-by-NC-ND license for England and Wales.

*[http://books.openedition.org/?lang=en/ OpenEdition Books]
** A web platform for books in the humanities and social sciences. More than half of their books are available as OA HTML editions; POD PDF and ePub are also [http://books.openedition.org/396 available]. Founded in February 2013, the publisher plans to have 1,000 books available by Summer 2013. This catalogue will expand by 2,000 extra books each year. Some titles include series by the [http://books.openedition.org/cedej/?lang=en Centre d’études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales] and [http://books.openedition.org/chbeck/ C. H. Beck].

* [http://openhumanitiespress.org/index.html Open Humanities Press]
** Open Humanities Press was established in 2009 in partnership with University of Michigan's [http://www.lib.umich.edu/spo/ Scholarly Publishing Office] to publish open access monographs and make them available online.  The site currently hosts a small number of [http://openhumanitiespress.org/cosmos-and-history.html journals] as well as [http://openhumanitiespress.org/book-titles.html books].

* [http://openstaxcollege.org/ OpenStax College]
** OpenStax College is a nonprofit organization offering free textbooks developed and peer-reviewed by educators primarily from Rice University.  It is an initiative of Rice University and Connexions,  supported by the Hewlett, Gates, Twenty Million Minds Foundation, and Maxfield Foundation.  The five initial textbooks (1 May 2012) proposed were Introduction to Sociology, Biology, Concepts of Biology, College Physics and Anatomy and Physiology.

* [http://textbooks.opensuny.org/ Open SUNY Textbooks]
** A collaborative effort “established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants,” Open SUNY Textbooks [http://textbooks.opensuny.org/opensuny-textbooks-project/ launched in 2012], with the first titles becoming available in [http://lisnews.org/suny_faculty_and_libraries_innovate_to_solve_problems_of_highcost_textbooks_by_producing_highquality October 2013]. The fully OA series is produces textbooks. Current work may be found [http://textbooks.opensuny.org/category/available-now/ here], with forthcoming work listed [http://textbooks.opensuny.org/category/forthcoming/ here]. Titles are available as free PDF, EPUB, and iBook downloads, with priced versions occasionally available through Amazon. Open SUNY Textbooks use CC-NA-SA licensing. 

*[http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ Open Textbook Library]
**The [http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ Open Textbook Library] is an online catalog of open textbooks based at the [http://open.umn.edu/ University of Minnesota Center for Open Education], founded in [http://conference.oeconsortium.org/2015/presentation/the-open-textbook-network-collectively-helping-institutions-and-faculty-overcome-barriers-to-adoption-of-open-textbooks/ 2012]. Accepts only completed works available under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ open licenses], portable file formats, and "in use at multiple higher educational institutions, or affiliated with a higher education institution, scholarly society, or professional organization".

*[http://oreilly.com/ O'Reilly Media]
**O’Reilly Media publishes media and technology books. Its libre OA series [http://oreilly.com/openbook/ Open Books], which was launched in 2003, is a partnership with the Internet Archive and Creative Commons. Print editions of these works are available. The series has “use[d] various open licenses,” but since [http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/1042 2003] Creative Commons licensing has been used.

*[http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/oriental-institute-publications-office The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago]
**On October 27, 2004, the faculty of the Oriental Institute, led by Director Gil J. Stein, unanimously voted to issue all new publications both in print and online, printed copies to be sold and online copies to be free, and all older titles to be processed for complimentary download from the Institute’s website as time and funds permit. The project was completed October 1, 2013, with the Publications Office gathering together more than 700 titles, 128,000 files, in 510 gigabytes of data. We are certain the complimentary worldwide distribution of 700+ titles would very much please James Henry Breasted.
***[http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/late-antique-and-medieval-islamic-near-east-lamine Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East] (LAMINE) is a series of "[http://www.oxbowbooks.com/dbbc/christians-and-others-in-the-umayyad-state.html scholarly works, including monographs, edited volumes, critical text editions, translations, studies of corpora of documents]" published by the University of Chicago's [http://oi.uchicago.edu/ Oriental Institute], first published in 2016. Use terms include, "[http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/electronic-publications-initiative-oriental-institute-university-chicago The electronic files are only to be distributed from the Oriental Institute's Web site. Individuals, libraries, institutions, and others may download one complimentary copy for their own personal use. ©The University of Chicago.]", no commercial use permitted. Available in [http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/late-antique-and-medieval-islamic-near-east-lamine PDF] and paid [http://www.oxbowbooks.com/dbbc/christians-and-others-in-the-umayyad-state.html print] format. 

*[https://www.otexts.org/ OTexts]
** Created by [http://robjhyndman.com/ Rob J. Hyndman] of Monash University, Australia and [http://souhaib-bentaieb.com/ Souhaib Ben Taied] of Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, OTexts provide free online textbooks. Although all [https://www.otexts.org/books titles] and related exercises are currently freely available, OTexts plans on implementing a subscription-based service at some point in the future. Books are not downloadable, but instead are available online only, through any browser and on any device. Authors retain full copyright and are free to publish elsewhere. Revenue obtained from subscriptions will be shared with the authors.

*[http://global.oup.com/ Oxford University Press (OUP)]
**[http://global.oup.com/ Oxford University Press] maintains a partnership with [http://project.oapen.org/ OAPEN] as of [https://www.oapen.org/content/about-resources April 2016], beginning with the [https://global.oup.com/academic/open-access/oapen-uk/?cc=us&lang=en& OAPEN-UK] pilot for a trial period starting in [https://global.oup.com/academic/open-access/oapen-uk/?cc=us&lang=en& September 2013] which produced monographs under a [https://global.oup.com/academic/open-access/oapen-uk/?cc=us&lang=en& CC-BY-NC-ND] license in PDF format with paid print and eBook options available. In addition, [http://global.oup.com/ Oxford University Press] supports open publication options for [https://global.oup.com/academic/open-access/?cc=us&lang=en& monographs] under Creative Commons licenses. [http://global.oup.com/ Oxford University Press] also operates [http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/oxford-open/index.html Oxford Open], supporting options for open journal publication under [http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/oxford-open/licences.html CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, and CC-BY-NC-ND licenses].

== P ==
* [http://paperc.de/about/ PaperC]
** PaperC is an open source library developed in Germany by Felix Hofmann and Martin Frohlich in 2009.  It currently offers over 11,800 "academic, reference and technical texts" [http://paperc.de/documents ebooks] for free (which are OA for a limited time per book) to registered users. Users can also create a personal online library. A premium service allows users to download, annotate, copy, or print content by page.  Content is available in over 12 languages, including English, German, French, and Spanish.  

*[http://www.palgrave.com/gp/rights-permissions/open Palgrave Open]
** An offshoot of the academic publisher [http://www.palgrave.com/ Palgrave MacMillan], [http://www.palgrave.com/gp/rights-permissions/open Palgrave Open] gives authors the option to publish OA journal articles, [http://www.palgrave.com/pivot/ Palgrave Pivot] publications (mid-form research), and monographs; the inclusion of monographs beginning in [http://www.nature.com/openresearch/openaccessbooks/ 2013]. These works can be made OA immediately upon publication, with [http://www.palgrave.com/open/faq.asp#section2/ associated fees]. OA content is published under the Creative Commons Attribution [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (CC BY)] license, and is available through Palgrave Macmillan's [http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pal/index.html/ journals website] and ebook platform, [http://www.palgraveconnect.com/index.html/ Palgrave Connect] with PDF, ePub, and print-on-demand [http://www.nature.com/openresearch/openaccessbooks/ options available]. 

* [http://www.paradisepublishers.com/ Paradise Publishers]
** Paradise Publishers is an umbrella company that encompasses two digital publishers and one e-commerce site: [http://www.foboko.com/ Foboko], [http://www.free-ebooks.net/ Free-ebooks.net], and [http://www.onesmartcart.com/ One Smart Cart].  The books are uploaded and published through Foboko, and free samples and full-work downloads are available to registered users on Free-ebooks.net.  This is a self-publishing platform that draws revenue from ads placed in the books, and as such the books are not necessarily suited for an academic environment.

*[http://www.pblpubs.org/index.php/pblpubs Paul Bechtold Library Publications]
**[http://www.pblpubs.org/index.php/pblpubs Paul Bechtold Library Publications] is a library publisher of open theological monographs based at the [http://www.ctu.edu/ Catholic Theological Union] [http://www.ctu.edu/library Paul Bechtold Library], announced in [http://paulbechtoldlibrarynews.blogspot.com/2015/12/library-publishing-program-launches.html December 2015]. Publication [http://www.pblpubs.org/index.php/pblpubs/about/submissions#authorGuidelines Copyright Notice] includes, "Authors retain copyright and grant the press right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons] Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this press.". 

*[http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pdxopen/ PDXOpen]
**[http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pdxopen/ PDXOpen] is a publisher of open textbooks, operating under the [http://library.pdx.edu/ Portland State University Library]. Currently accepting [http://library.pdx.edu/services/pdxscholar-services/open-access-textbooks/ proposals] from [http://www.pdx.edu/ Portland State University] faculty, with grants provided to accepted proposals. Works are published in the Portland State University institutional repository, [http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/ PDXScholar], and [http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/faq.html#faq-5 licensed] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ CC-BY-NC]. 

* [http://www.psupress.org Pennsylvania State University Press] (PSUP)
** [http://www.psupress.org/books/series/book_SeriesMetalmark.html Metalmark Books]. A series of "facsimile editions...of out-of-print, public domain works that hold a significant place in Pennsylvania’s rich literary and cultural past," Metalmark Books are the product of a collaboration between the PSUP and the [http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/odsp.html Pennsylvania State University's Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing]. Print on demand editions are available, complementing the online editions.
** [http://romancestudies.psu.edu/ Romance Studies].  A series of peer-reviewed OA monographs on "the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Romance languages".  The books are also available in priced, POD editions.  PSUP [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/09/penn-state-experiment-with-oata-books.html experimented] with OA chapters in 2008 before deciding to offer full-text OA editions.  The books are gratis OA, without open licenses; see the series' [http://dpubs.libraries.psu.edu/publication/psu.rs/use.html terms of use] page.

*[https://www.peterlang.com/ Peter Lang Publishing Group]
**[https://www.peterlang.com/ The Peter Lang Publishing Group] is an [https://www.peterlang.com/page/The$0020Peter$0020Lang$0020Publishing$0020Group/the-peter-lang-publishing-group international network] of publishers focused in the "Humanities and Social Sciences, covering the complete publication spectrum from monographs to student textbooks", supporting [https://www.peterlang.com/page/authors/publishing-with-us open publishing options] in addition to maintaining a partnership with [http://www.oapen.org/home OAPEN]. Current [https://www.peterlang.com/browse?access=open OA titles] are available in print and PDF with select titles available in EPUB format; the earliest OA title published in [https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/22368?rskey=yo2EvK&result=9 November 2014].

* [http://www.pickeringchatto.com/ Pickering & Chatto]
** Pickering & Chatto established an [http://www.pickeringchatto.com/publish/open-access-policy OA policy] by which authors may publish monographs and book chapters under CC-BY-NC licensing. Such titles will be available for purchase as electronic and print versions from Pickering & Chatto. Authors (or funders) will receive a digital file of the work, which they may make openly available as they choose. APCs are levied on OA titles, the cost of which depends on page count. 

*[http://www.polimetrica.com/ Polimetrica]
** Polimetrica publishes textbooks and monographs on the pure, applied, and social sciences, and publishing and open access. All of the [http://www.polimetrica.com/index.php?p=productsList titles] may be previewed on Google Books. Print editions of the entire booklist are available, and licensing is addressed in the company’s [http://www.polimetrica.com/main/Manifesto.php “manifesto”].

*[http://www.potto.org Potto Project]
**Potto Project was created by Dr. Genick Bar-Meir and friends in 2005. The Project's intention is to build Open Source Software (OSS) and open content [http://www.potto.org/downloads.php textbooks] on fluid mechanics for college students. The open content is available online or downloadable under [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html GNU Free Documentation License].

*[http://prathambooks.org/ Pratham Books]
**Launched in [http://www.prathambooks.org/read-india-movement 2004], Pratham Books publishes “good quality affordable books” for schoolchildren in Indian and English as part of their Read India Movement. The libre OA [http://www.scribd.com/prathambooks/collections collections] are also available as print editions. Pratham Books uses Creative Commons [http://www.prathambooks.org/cc licensing].

*[http://punctumbooks.com/ 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 [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 CC-BY-NC-ND] licenses. In addition, Punctum Books supports distribution platform [https://punctumbooks.com/uncategorized/press-release-graduated-open-access/ Graduated Open Access] which was launched in December 2015.

* [http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/ Purdue University Press]
**Purdue University Press publishes books and journals on topics “including business, technology, health, veterinary sciences, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences.” The gratis OA [http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/purduepress_ebooks/ booklist] is available through Purdue e-Pubs, but may also be purchased in print editions. [http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/pages/rights-and-permissions Licensing] terms are discussed.

== Q ==

* [http://www.qscience.com/page/openaccess QScience.com, Open Access]
**[http://www.qscience.com QScience.com] is the "online publishing platform from [http://books.hbkupress.com/ Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)]", that publishes [http://www.qscience.com/page/author_services_journals/ journal articles] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons 3.0 CC-BY] license. As of April 2013, QScience also publishes OA ebooks which can be accessed through the [http://www.doabooks.org/doab/ Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)].  Off-shoot of [http://www.bqfp.com.qa/Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing], and a member of the [http://www.qf.org.qa/ Qatar Foundation]. It has published a [http://www.qscience.com/userimages/ContentEditor/1322148977938/oa-whitepaper.pdf/ white paper] about the OA movement.
***[http://www.qscience.com/page/books/uclq-cas UCL Qatar Series in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage] is a monograph series first published in 2014. The series has published one volume to-date, titled "Craft and science: International perspectives on archaeological ceramics", available in PDF and ePub format and licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC BY].

== R ==

*[http://www.rand.org/ Rand Corporation]
**A nonprofit with a mission "[to] help improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis," RAND "disseminates its research findings as widely as possible to benefit the public good." RAND publishes gratis OA [http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs.html monographs], which are available for purchase in print form. [http://www.rand.org/publications/permissions.html Permissions] information is provided, and RAND retains copyright. 

*[http://www.re-press.org/ re.press]
** re.press is an Australian based company, which seeks to publish "rigorous" OA books in philosophy. It uses an OA license that allows for the greatest possible dissemination of their authors' works. [http://www.re-press.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=57 See its policy here]. Hard copies of the [http://re-press.org/category/books/ titles] are available for sale.

*[http://ricepress.rice.edu/ Rice University Press]
**Relaunched in [http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/07/14/rice 2006], after having been defunct since 1996, Rice University Press published an all-OA collection that was available for POD purchase. In [http://chronicle.com/blogs/pageview/rice-u-to-close-its-digital-press-next-month/26342 2010], Rice University Press was closed once again, due to financial constraints. Titles are still housed in [http://cnx.org/ Connexions] to be read as the online editions, and may be purchased in print form from [http://my.qoop.com/store/Rice-University-Press-3111075350609104 Qoop].

*[http://web.rgzm.de/publikationen/rgzm-open-access.html Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM)]
**[http://web.rgzm.de/ Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM)] is a scientific publisher, featuring a [http://web.rgzm.de/publikationen/rgzm-open-access/ dedicated page for open access] publications, including journals, monographs, "rihen", proceedings, and booklets. The majority of titles featured are available in PDF format, with some titles available in paid print. Specific licensing and use terms are undefined. 

*[https://www.routledge.com/info/open_access Routledge Books Open Access]
**[https://www.routledge.com/ Routledge] initiative offering publication to research monographs. All books under this initiative are released under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC-BY-NC-ND] license upon publication, deposited in [http://www.oapen.org/home OAPEN], and made available on the Routledge/Taylor & Francis ebooks platform. Publications available as [http://www.tandfebooks.com/page/openaccess Routledge/Taylor & Frances ebook], PDF, and printed edition.

== S ==

*[http://www.saylor.org/ Saylor Academy]
**[http://www.saylor.org/press-releases/itunesu-coursebuilder-credit-partnerships/ Launched in 2008] as “a free education initiative of the Saylor Foundation”, Saylor Academy was “awarded $80,000 to make four college textbooks available to the public through the [http://www.saylor.org/otc/ Open Textbook Challenge]”. Since 2011, Saylor “released five college-level textbooks under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)] licenses”. [http://www.saylor.org/books/ Saylor Academy Open Textbooks] supports a list of textbooks accessible under open licenses, available in multiple formats for select titles including HTML, PDF, DOCx, ePub, Mobi, XML, iBooks, and print.

*[http://www.historischeskolleg.de/publikationen/kolloquien.html Schriften des Historischen Kollegs. Kolloquien]
**The [http://www.historischeskolleg.de/publikationen/kolloquien.html Schriften des Historischen Kollegs colloquia] are a set of colloquia made available by [http://www.historischeskolleg.de/ Historischen Kollegs]. The majority of titles are freely downloadable in PDF format, but specific use and licensing terms for these titles are undefined. 

*[http://books.scielo.org/ SciELO Livros (Scientific Electronic Library Online)]
** An electronic library covering a selected collection of Brazilian scientific journals.
** Part of a project being developed by [http://www.fapesp.br/ Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)], in partnership with the [http://bvsalud.org/ Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME)]. Supported by [http://www.cnpq.br/ Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)] since 2001.

*[http://sciyo.com/ Sciyo] (previously known as In-Tech, see [[Publishers of OA books#I|above]])
**Sciyo is an open access publisher in the field of science and technology. Sciyo's database features free scientific books, journals, and videos; the booklist is available [http://www.intechopen.com/books/show/title/recent_advances_in_face_recognition here].  As their website states: "It's free for everyone, anywhere in the world so long as the original author(s) and source are correctly credited." All publications are published under the [http://www.intechopen.com/intechopen-copyright-policy.html Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license]. Authors are charged 470 euro (as of 2010) and there is a peer review process for publication. See an interview by Richard Poynder, [http://poynder.blogspot.com/2010/02/oa-interviews-sciyo-aleksandar-lazinica.html The OA Interviews: Sciyo's Aleksandar Lazinica], 12 February 2010.

*[http://projects.siyavula.com/ Siyavula]
** A project, born of the Nguni word for “we are opening”, that aims to transform education in South Africa by providing free, open and curriculum-aligned educational resources, formerly supported by [http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/ The Stuttleworth Foundation], with an aim for supporting open education and technology.
** Provides free online resources, [http://everythingmaths.co.za/ EverythingMaths], [http://everythingscience.co.za/ EverythingScience] and natural Sciences and technology workbooks, [http://thunderboltkids.co.za/ Thunderboltkids].
** They publish their textbook content under the terms of the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons By-Attribution license].  

*[http://www.sbl-site.org/default.aspx Society of Biblical Literature]
**Society of Biblical Literature's International Cooperation Initiative (ICI) "provides free electronic access" to their titles on "biblical scholarship" to users (identified by IP address) in developing countries. The complete [http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/Books_ICIbooks.aspx booklist] is provided, but select works are available [http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/Books_ANEmonographs.aspx here] and [http://ivbs.sbl-site.org/home.aspx here] to all users, regardless of geographic location. Print editions are available for purchase. Licensing terms and the Society of Biblical Literature's OA policy are [http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/openaccess.aspx addressed].

*[http://www.springeropen.com/ Springer Open] 
** [http://www.springer.com/?SGWID=0-102-0-0-0/ Springer], a publisher of science, technology and medical materials, offers a fully open access option for books, extending Springer’s [http://www.springeropen.com/about/ SpringerOpen], [http://www.biomedcentral.com/ BioMed Central journals], and its [http://www.springer.com/open+access/open+choice?SGWID=0-40359-0-0-0/ Springer Open Choice] option. Any electronic version of a SpringerOpen book is fully and immediately OA, and freely accessible on [http://link.springer.com/ SpringerLink]. Springer's OA is licensed though their [http://www.springeropen.com/authors/license/ Full SpringerOpen Access license agreement], which is identical to the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Creative Commons Attribution License]. Springer started incorporating OA lines in August 2012, and is a sponsor of the [http://www.doabooks.org/doab/ Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)].
***[https://www.simula.no/research/simula-springerbriefs Simula SpringerBriefs on Computing] is a series of open monographs [http://www.springer.com/gp/about-springer/media/press-releases/corporate/springer-and-simula-join-forces-to-provide-free-ebooks/42292 published by] SpringerOpen in connection to [https://www.simula.no/ Simula Research Laboratory] announced in [http://www.springer.com/gp/about-springer/media/press-releases/corporate/springer-and-simula-join-forces-to-provide-free-ebooks/42292 December 2014]; first title released in 2016. Outlined in initial [http://www.springer.com/gp/about-springer/media/press-releases/corporate/springer-and-simula-join-forces-to-provide-free-ebooks/42292 press release], terms identified as "Published by SpringerOpen, all Simula SpringerBriefs on Computing are open access, allowing for faster sharing and wider dissemination of knowledge. Under this agreement and model, authors also retain copyright.". Titles released as e-Books with paid print options available.

*[http://www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/ Stockholm University Press]
**Stockholm University Press (SUP) is an open access publisher of peer-reviewed academic [http://www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/journals/ journals] and [http://www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/books/ books]. In partnership with our authors and series editors, we publish work within the humanities, social sciences and the natural sciences. Our main focal points are rigorous peer review, open access, affordable publishing and global dissemination.
**SUP published its first books and journals in late 2014 and early 2015. It is a publicly financed non-profit operation where the main goal is to provide public access to scientific results in multiple formats, both nationally and internationally. SUP is a part of [http://www.sub.su.se/home/ Stockholm University Library], and a member of the [http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/partners/ Ubiquity Partner Network].
**To keep up to date with our publishing operation, subscribe to our [http://blog.stockholmuniversitypress.se/ blog]

*[http://studiesinlatinamerica.lib.unc.edu/ Studies in Latin America], [http://uncpress.unc.edu/ University of North Carolina Press]
**[http://studiesinlatinamerica.lib.unc.edu/ Studies in Latin America] is a series of open scholarly monographs operating under the [http://isa.unc.edu/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute for the Study of the Americas] and [http://uncpress.unc.edu/ UNC Press], announced in [http://uncpressblog.com/2014/06/16/new-open-access-short-works/ June 2014]. Additional formats available include e-book and print.

*[http://sydney.edu.au/sup/ Sydney University Press]
**[http://sydney.edu.au/sup/ Sydney University Press] is a university press offering hybrid [http://sydney.edu.au/sup/about/openaccess.html open publishing options] for monographs, beginning work with OA concepts [http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/sydneypublishing/2015/10/open_access_books_at_sydney_un.html 2003]. Open titles published by Sydney University Press are made available in PDF format on the [http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/ Sydney eScholarship Repository]; specific use and licensing terms undefined.

== T ==

*[http://www.uta.fi/kirjasto/en/tup/index.html Tampere University Press (TUP)]
**[http://www.uta.fi/kirjasto/en/tup/index.html Tampere University Press (TUP)] is a university press [http://blogs.uta.fi/news/2015/11/24/tampere-university-press-will-be-reorganized-into-an-open-access-publisher/ reorganized in 2016 in support of open access], focused on the publication of open monographs. Open titles are released on [https://oapen.org/home OAPEN] and institutional repository [https://tampub.uta.fi/ TamPub], offering [https://verkkokauppa.juvenes.fi/kategoria/233/tampere-university-press-tup printed] titles. Scope of OA publishing and licensing terms are undefined. 

*[http://www.tamupress.com/catalog/CategoryInfo.aspx?cid=152 Texas A&M University Press Consortium]
** Since 1974, Texas A&M University Press Consortium has published work covering "agriculture, anthropology, nautical archaeology, architecture, borderland studies, economics, military history, natural history, presidential studies, veterinary medicine, and works on the history and culture of Texas and the surrounding region." An OA series, the [http://www.tamupress.com/pages/series_description.aspx Carolyn & Ernest Fay Lecture and Book Series in Analytical (Jungian) Psychology], was established in 2009 "to further the ideas of C. G. Jung among students, faculty, therapists, and citizens." These works are available either through the University's [http://repository.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/85762/browse?type=title repository] or as a print-on-demand edition through the press.

*[http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/ilmedia/universitaetsverlag/verlagsprogramm/ TU Ilmenau Press]
**In [http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/uni/fileadmin/Startseite/USER/uni/downloads/RPOE/Veroeffentlichungen/Verkuend_2707.pdf 2007] TU Ilmenau Press began publishing dual editions of the output of the Technische Universität Ilmenau’s affiliated authors. Gratis OA [http://www.db-thueringen.de/search/search-tu_i.xml works] are available through [http://www.db-thueringen.de/ Digitale Bibliothek Thüringen], and print editions are available through [http://www.mv-buchshop.de/catalog/index.php?cPath=36_84 Monsenstein und Vannerdat]. Licensing is discussed [http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/ilmedia/elektr-publizieren/autoren/urheberrecht/ here].

*[http://www.tyndale.com/00_Home/index.php Tyndale Press]
** A publisher of Christian fiction and nonfiction, most of which is TA, its OA monographs are listed [http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/articles_tyndale.php here]. Licensing for the published work is [http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/articles_faq.php#2 available].

== U ==
* [http://www.ubiquitypress.com/ Ubiquity Press]
** [http://www.ubiquitypress.com/ Ubiquity Press] publishes open access peer-reviewed academic [http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/journals/ journals], [http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/books/ books] and data. All publications are under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC BY license]. Ubiquity Press maintain a list of [http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/oa-funding/ funds for open access scholarly books].
** A network of [http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/partners/ university and society presses] also use Ubiquity Press's platform and publishing services.

* [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/ucl-press/ UCL Press]
**After University College London [http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/ucl-presses-ahead-with-open-access/2009926.article "repatriated" the UCL Press imprint in 2013], [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press UCL Press] became a university press publishing open "scholarly monographs, scholarly editions, textbooks, edited collections and journals" announced in [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0515/270515-ucl-press May 2015]. Titles available as open electronic versions with paid e-book and print-on-demand options available in addition to [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/ucl-press-news/open-access-digital-scholarly-publishing-three-new-ways-from-ucl-press Enhanced Digital Editions, Scholarly Monographs, and BOOC (Books as Open Online Content)], with titles accessible through UCL's repository service [http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/ UCL Discovery]. 

* [http://gpo.gov/newsroom-media/presspage/14presspage04.htm United States Government Printing Office]
**As of February 2014, the [http://www.gpo.gov/ U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)] in conjunction with the [http://www.gpo.gov/libraries/ Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP)], has expanded its eBook program to include free access to federal publications. U.S. Government Publications are available through the [http://catalog.gpo.gov/F?RN=819082594 catalog]. The eBooks are available in PDF, Mobi, and ePub versions. The main goal of this expansion is to "provide the public with greater access to Government information in multiple formats." Find details of the expanded program [http://gpo.gov/newsroom-media/presspage/14presspage04.htm here].

* [http://www.adelaide.edu.au/press/ University of Adelaide Press] 
** The University of Adelaide Press is the OA imprint of the now-divided [http://www.adelaide.edu.au/press/about/ University of Adelaide Barr Smith Press]. Launched in [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/universitys-e-press-recasts-publishing-model/story-e6frgcjx-1225796248270 October 2009], all of the [http://www.adelaide.edu.au/press/titles/ titles], which are monographs or edited collections of "the University's intellectual and scholarly output,” are gratis OA; conditions of use are available [http://www.adelaide.edu.au/press/readers/ here]. Print on demand editions of the titles may be purchased.

*[http://press.ucalgary.ca/ University of Calgary Press]
**[http://press.ucalgary.ca/ The University of Calgary Press] is a university press publishing applicable scholarly monographs and series under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ CC-BY-NC-ND] license starting in [http://www.ucalgary.ca/utoday/issue/2015-10-22/university-calgary-press-marks-five-years-open-access-publishing October 2010]. Titles available in PDF format, paid print and e-book formats [http://press.ucalgary.ca/about available].

* [http://www.ucpress.edu/ University of California Press]
** The University of California Press [http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/ E-Books Collection, 1982-2004], established in 2000 as the [http://www.cdlib.org/about/ eScholarship initiative] and managed by the [http://www.cdlib.org/services/publishing/ California Digital Library Publishing Group], has published a large OA digital library of about 2,000 books for UC faculty, students, and staff; about 25% of these titles are available as OA editions to the general public. The books are copyrighted to the Regents of the University of California. Print editions are available for purchase. The titles in the collection were published between 1982 and 2004 by UC-based scholars, with topics ranging from humanities, art, and religion to the sciences. 
**[http://www.escholarship.org/ eScholarship] was launched in October 2009 and is now operational as the "open access publishing and dissemination service for the University of California." A [http://www.escholarship.org/uc/search?keyword=&title=&creator=&publisher=&year=&year-max=&type=monograph&facet-affiliation=&facet-discipline=&rmode=save-adv-sel# booklist] is available, as is [http://www.escholarship.org/publish_books.html print on demand], and [http://www.escholarship.org/publish_copyright.html copyright and licensing details] are provided.
**[http://www.escholarship.org/uc/ucpress_flashpoints FlashPoints] is a gratis OA series for a "broad audience within the humanities and the social sciences concerned with moments of cultural emergence and transformation." Copyright remains with the Regents of the University of California, and print ePub editions are available for purchase.
**[http://www.luminosoa.org/ Luminos] is an open monograph publishing program operating under [http://www.ucpress.edu/ University of California Press], launched in [http://content.ucpress.edu/pr/Luminos_press_release_101315.pdf October 2015]. Titles are published under [http://www.luminosoa.org/site/faqs/ Creative Commons] licenses, available in digital formats including Kindle, PDF, and ePub, with paid print editions available.
**[http://www.collabra.org/ Collabra] is an open access journal published by [http://www.ucpress.edu/ University of California Press], launched in [http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/17878/collabra-changing-the-rules-of-open-access-journal-publishing/ April 2015], under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC BY license]. A portion of the Article Processing Charge is [http://www.collabra.org/about/our-model/ offered to editors and reviewers] who have worked on articles (including on rejected articles).

*[http://www.openaccess.lib.uct.ac.za/ University of Cape Town Libraries]
**[http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/ University of Cape Town Libraries] is a university library publisher of open [http://journals.uct.ac.za/ journals] and [http://openbooks.uct.ac.za/index.php/openbooks monographs], publishing their first monographs in [http://www.openaccess.lib.uct.ac.za/news/open-access-publishing-uct-libraries December 2015] and moving forward to launch a [http://openbooks.uct.ac.za/index.php/openbooks monograph publishing service] in [http://www.openaccess.lib.uct.ac.za/news/open-access-publishing-uct-libraries January 2016]. 

* [http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/ University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publication Program]
** In 2004, the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago launched an [http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/epi.html Electronic Publications Initiative], which provided gratis OA to all of their subsequent  [http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/ titles]. Print editions are available for purchase, and the backlist is slated to be digitized, which would make the entire catalog OA. Copyright and permissions information is [http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/copyrights-and-permissions-use detailed].

*[http://www.upf.com/ University Press of Florida]
**In [http://www.fldlc.org/pdfFiles/ORANGE%20GROVE%20PRESS%20RELEASE.PDF September 2009], the University Press of Florida and Florida's [http://www.theorangegrove.org/OGMain.asp Orange Grove] repository, "an online library of openly available instructional resources for Florida's educators," partnered to offer OA scholarly monographs and textbooks from the University Press of Florida. Print on demand editions are available, and copyright is open under [http://www.theorangegrove.org/OGTabout.asp Creative Commons Licensing]. [http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/access/searching.do?q=ISBN*&sort=rank Titles] may be browsed here.

* [http://www.ugapress.org University of Georgia Press] 
** The [http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/series/GHEP Georgia History Ebook Project] was [http://media-newswire.com/release_1146499.html announced] March 26, 2011.  The project is a [http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/CollectionsA-Z/ugapressbks_information.html collaboration with the Digital Library of Georgia] and makes early and seminal works on Georgia’s history and culture available as free downloadable PDFs.  The books are gratis OA, without open licenses.  Print editions are for sale from the press.

*[http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/ Universität Heidelberg]
**[http://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/ Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP)] is a [http://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/publishing/for_authors full OA publisher] of "monographs, anthologies / Proceedings and textbooks" available in HTML, PDF, and print formats under [http://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/publishing/rights_and_licences.html Creative Commons] licenses. 
**[http://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/heibooks heiBOOKS] is an open e-book publishing is an open publishing platform for series and monographs available to authors in the Heidelberg University network, releasing open titles as early as [http://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/heibooks/catalog/book/11 2014]. Titles available in HTML, PDF, and print-on-demand [http://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/heibooks/publishing/for_authors formats] released under a [http://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/heibooks/publishing/rights_and_licences Creative Commons] license.
**[http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/publishing/heidelberg-studies-in-transculturality-an-open-access-book-series.html Heidelberg Studies in Transculturality] is published by [http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/ University of Heidelberg’s  Cluster of Excellence: “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”] and [http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/Englisch/Welcome.html University of Heidelberg Library], is an OA “book series dedicated to the humanities and social sciences”. The forthcoming titles will be [http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/oa-book-series/information-for-authors.html freely available] in HTML, PDF, and ePub versions; POD editions will be available for purchase. Find additional details about the launch of the program [https://idw-online.de/en/news569244 here].

*[http://www.press.umich.edu/ University of Michigan Press]
**The [http://www.digitalculture.org/ Digital Culture Books] imprint of the [http://press.umich.edu/ University of Michigan Press] publishes open access Creative Commons titles in the field of critical media studies. Books are free to read online and available to purchase in print or as offline e-book editions. The imprint has published more than 20 books since being founded in 2006. Digital Culture Books is created with the assistance of [http://www.lib.umich.edu/mpublishing MPublishing], part of the University of Michigan Press.

*[https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ University of Minnesota - Open Academics]
** The [http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.html/ University of Minnesota's] [http://www.cehd.umn.edu/ College of Education and Human Development] has created an online textbook catalog "in an effort to reduce higher education costs", through various Creative Commons licenses.
** The catalog currently lists 84 open textbooks

*[http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/page/885 Office of Scholarly Publishing Services (OSPS)], University of North Carolina Press,
**Operating under the [http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/ University of North Carolina Press], the [http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/page/885 Office of Scholarly Publishing Services (OSPS)] is a "publishing services provider" supporting OA [http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/OSPS/OSPS_FAQs.pdf publishing options] for materials including but not limited to books and textbooks.

*[http://digital.library.pitt.edu/p/pittpress/ University of Pittsburgh Press, Digital Editions]
**In [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007/11/oa-to-u-of-pittsburg-press-backlist.html 2007] the University of Pittsburgh Press partnered with the University Library System to establish Digital Editions, the gratis OA series. The available [http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?c=pittpress;page=browse;key=title titles] are digitized works from “the Pitt Latin American Series, Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies, and Composition, Literacy and Culture"; print editions are available for purchase. Rights and permissions are discussed [http://upress.pitt.edu/rightsPermissions.aspx here].

*[http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/index.html University of South Carolina Press]
**[http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/books/accessablebooks/accessable.html AccessAble Books], a collaborative imprint between University of South Carolina Press and the [http://library.sc.edu/ University of South Carolina Libraries], provides gratis access to books that are "important out-of-print volumes of scholarship and regional history." [http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm/search/collection/access Titles] are available as a University of South Carolina Libraries digital collection, and may be purchased through the University's press.  

*[http://www.lib.utk.edu/newfoundpress/ University of Tennessee Libraries, Newfound Press]
**Following its launch in [http://www.newfoundpress.utk.edu/aboutfaq.html 2005] as an imprint of the University of Tennessee Libraries, Newfound Press publishes “scientific research, humanistic scholarship, and artistic creation.” The OA [http://www.newfoundpress.utk.edu/pubs/titles-index.html booklist] is available in print-on-demand editions through the University of Tennessee Press. Creative Commons [http://www.newfoundpress.utk.edu/copyright.html licensing] is used for this imprint.

*[http://www.upne.com/ University Press of New England (UPNE)]
**[http://www.upne.com/ University Press of New England (UPNE)] is a publisher of monographs "supported by a consortium of member institutions including Brandeis University and Dartmouth College". In partnership with [http://www.brandeis.edu/ Brandeis University] and [http://dartmouth.edu/ Dartmouth College], open titles are made available through the [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/digital/ Dartmouth Digital Library Program] and [http://bir.brandeis.edu/ Brandeis Institutional Repository] in "HTML, PDF, and when possible, e-book formats." announced by [http://now.dartmouth.edu/2014/07/dartmouth-library-joins-digital-publishing-project/  Dartmouth College in June 2014] and [http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2014/july/openaccess-library.html Brandeis University in July of 2014]. Titles made available through Brandeis University and Dartmouth College in connection to the [http://www.upne.com/ University Press of New England] do not have shared licensing terms. 

*[http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ UTS ePRESS]
**[http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ UTS ePRESS] is a university press operating under [http://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)], publishing "journals, books and conference proceedings" launched in [http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/about 2004]. Available [http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/about/authors-creators-contributors-readers/information-readers-and-creators formats] include PDF, ePub, iBook, and print-on-demand for select titles. Status outlined in publisher [http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/about/authors-creators-contributors-readers/copyright-terms-use#overlay-context=about/authors-creators-contributors-readers Copyright & Terms of Use]: "Many ePRESS publications employ Creative Commons licenses which allow certain rights for the author, publisher, reader and re-user. Some of our earlier works (mainly pre-2014) have more traditional copyrights whereby the journal, book, conference or author retain copyright to the work.".

== V ==
*[http://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/ Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften]
**[http://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/ Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften], known in English as Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, is a [http://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/OpenAccess1 partial OA publisher] supporting conditional access to full text eBooks 11 years post-publication. [http://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/OpenAccess Supporting] [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/at/legalcode Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Austria], [http://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/ Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften] has worked with open content as early as [http://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/OpenAccess 2009] in addition to maintaining membership with [https://openlibrary.org/publishers/Austrian_Academy_of_Sciences_Press OAPEN].

==W==
*[http://universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/ White Rose University Press (WRUP)]
**[http://universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/ White Rose University Press (WRUP)] is a university press publisher of open journals and monographs, managed by the [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ University of Leeds], [http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ University of Sheffield], and [http://www.york.ac.uk/ University of York] launched in [http://universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/site/news/ January 2016]. Published titles licensed under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Creative Commons] licenses, primarily [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY]. Published works are accessible in supported [http://universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/site/our-services/ formats] "including PDF, HTML, Mobi, and EPub" and print-on-demand options. 

*[http://www.wikibooks.org/ Wikibooks]
**Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.  Set up almost exactly as Wikipedia, the content is in various languages.  There are over 37,000 books that can be viewed by [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Subject:Books_by_subject subject]. Books are in wiki format (see the example on [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Art_History Art History]). Creative Commons and GNU Free Documentation licensing [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Policies_and_guidelines is used]. Print copies are not available.

*[http://www.worldreader.org/index.php Worldreader.org]
**Worldreader.org is a nonprofit group with a [http://www.worldreader.org/how-we-operate.php mission] "to make digital books available to all in the developing world." Through partnerships with numerous [http://www.worldreader.org/partners.php organizations] and [http://www.worldreader.org/donors.php private donors], Worldreader.org provides e-readers loaded with discounted and gratis OA [http://www.worldreader.org/books.php titles] to  "underserved areas and underprivileged peoples." Publisher sponsors and [http://blog.worldreader.org/tag/authors/ individual authors] have donated work, and Worldreader.org supplements these titles by [http://www.worldreader.org/authors.php digitizing] books from African publishers that are then sold electronically, and in turn receives these "textbooks and storybooks" to distribute gratis OA to program participants.

== Y ==

* [http://www.yasharbooks.com/index.html Yashar Books]
** Yashar Books publishes materials that relate to Orthodox Jewish scholarship. Its [http://www.yasharbooks.com/Open/ Open Access Project] aims to develop Torah scholarship through open access to essays, articles, and books. These are available on the site as downloadable PDFs.

== Z ==

*[http://www.zetabooks.com/ Zeta Books]
** An arts and humanities publisher, Zeta books offers and OA option called [http://www.zetabooks.com/open-access-policies.html/ Open Access Zeta (OAZ)], through which "authors are offered the option to make their article/chapter publicly and freely online available against a article processing charge of 850 Euro per article or chapter". 
** Zeta's OA option is available for all journals and book series published under the Zeta Books imprint.