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OA publication funds

2016-09-23T10:23:48Z

Tom Mowlam:

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* This is a list of funds to support OA journals, books, and other kinds of publication. The funds may be hosted by universities, research centers, foundations, or government agencies.
** Until September 21, 2016, this page was limited to OA ''journal'' funds. Now it is more inclusive.
** All the ''journal'' funds listed here are designed to pay publication fees (or article processing charges, APCs) at fee-based OA journals. If funds emerge to support [https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/4552050 ''no-fee'' OA journals], they belong here as well.

* When possible, annotate the funds with their launch dates, end dates (if any), special criteria, funding limits or cost-ceilings, and other notable features.

* If an institution once had an OA publication fund which has since expired, please add it to the list of [[Discontinued OA publication funds]].

* Related lists in OAD: (1) [[OA book business models]], (2) [[OA journal business models]], (3) [[Discontinued OA publication funds]].

* Related lists elsewhere:
** [http://co-action.net/ Co-Action Publishing] maintains a [http://www.journaloforalmicrobiology.net/public/site/pages/Funders.php list] of universities and funding agencies willing to pay article processing charges for grantees.
** [http://www.degruyter.com/ De Gruyter] maintains a [http://www.degruyter.com/page/1097 list] of universities and funding agencies willing to pay publication fees.
** [https://plos.org/ PLOS] maintains a [https://plos.org/open-access-funds/ list] of universities and funding agencies supporting open access fees.
** [http://sparcopen.org/ SPARC] maintains a guide to [http://sparcopen.org/our-work/oa-funds/Campus Open Access Funds], which includes a [http://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/OA-Funds-in-Action-4.7.16.pdf table of funds] and their associated features or policies.
** [http://www.springer.com/ Springer] maintained a [http://resource-cms.springer.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/6990/data/v5/Overview+of+open+access+funds list] until December 2014 of universities and funding agencies with OA journal funds.
** [http://www.ubiquitypress.com/ Ubiquity Press] maintains a [http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/oa-funding/ list] of universities and funding agencies willing to pay publication fees for academic books.

[[Category:Lists about books]] [[Category:Lists about journals]] [[Category:Lists about institutions]] [[Category:Lists about business models and funding]]

== A ==
*[http://www.aka.fi/en/ Academy of Finland]
**[http://www.aka.fi/globalassets/awanhat/documents/liitteet/oa_ohje_en.pdf Funds] "available for research costs arising from publishing of research results", for applicants to include in "a publication plan as part of the research plan" as of September 2014.
**Hybrid publication discouraged.

*[http://www.uia.no/ University of Agder]
**Fund available to [http://www.uia.no/ University of Agder] corresponding authors.
**Limited to [https://dbh.nsd.uib.no/publiseringskanaler/Forside approved] fully OA journals maintaining [http://oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)] membership; hybrid publication ineligible.
**Maximum award of 30,000kr, limited to 10 funded publications per author annually.
**Mandatory deposit in institutional repository, [http://www.uia.no/bibliotek/forskning-og-publisering2/aura-agder-university-research-archive AURA].
**Secondary fund available for publication in "level 2" hybrid journals as of January 2016; applications require faculty recommendation.

*[https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/home.html Alexander von Humboldt Foundation]
**[https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/printing-subsidies.html Funds] available in the form of reimbursement, shown under the larger [https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/printing-subsidies.html Printing Subsidies] plan.
**Reimbursement of OA publication fees addressed in [https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/press-release-2009-08.html Joint Statement by German Science Organisations] released in March 2009.

* [http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/public_relations/oai/index.html Austrian Science Fund (FWF)]
**[http://www.fwf.ac.at/fileadmin/files/Dokumente/News_Presse/News/OAT12_reckling.pdf Funds] available to cover OA and Hybrid publication costs.
**Funding available as of [http://www.fwf.ac.at/fileadmin/files/Dokumente/News_Presse/News/OAT12_reckling.pdf 2001].

*[http://www.arizona.edu/ University of Arizona]
**[http://new.library.arizona.edu/about/awards/oa-fund Fund] supports "UA faculty, researchers, staff, post-docs, and students publishing a peer-reviewed article within an open access journal.", announced [https://uaatwork.arizona.edu/uannounce/open-access-publishing-fund October, 2015].
**Supported journals must be included in both the [https://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals] and [http://oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association].
**Maximum award of "$3,000 per article".

*[http://www.arthritisresearchuk.org/ Arthritis Research UK]
**Funding available in connection to the [http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Policy/Spotlight-issues/Open-access/Charity-open-access-fund/index.htm Charity Open Access Fund (COAF)] as of October 2014.
**Encouraged CC-BY licensing for publications funded by Arthritis Research UK; required CC-BY licensing for publications funded through larger [http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Policy/Spotlight-issues/Open-access/Charity-open-access-fund/index.htm Charity Open Access Fund (COAF)] fund.
**Required deposit in [http://plus.europepmc.org/ Europe PMC] for publications "wholly or partially funded by Arthritis Research UK", "no later than six months after publication.".

*[http://www.aston.ac.uk/ Aston University]
**[http://www.aston.ac.uk/ Aston University] maintains separate funding criteria for individual university schools, including [http://www.aston.ac.uk/EasySiteWeb/GatewayLink.aspx?alId=280010 Aston Business School (ABS)], [http://www.aston.ac.uk/EasySiteWeb/GatewayLink.aspx?alId=280011 School of Engineering & Applied Science (EAS)], [http://www.aston.ac.uk/EasySiteWeb/GatewayLink.aspx?alId=280012 School of Life & Health Sciences (LHS)], [http://www.aston.ac.uk/EasySiteWeb/GatewayLink.aspx?alId=280013 School of Languages & Social Sciences (LSS)], and [http://www.aston.ac.uk/EasySiteWeb/GatewayLink.aspx?alId=280014 Aston Medical School (AMS)].
**Included Aston University schools maintain selective funding processes, available to "4*" and conditionally "3*" publications.
**Criteria dated May 2016 across all schools; institutional funding referenced as early as [http://theblogworm.blogspot.com/2014/05/open-access-publishing-growing-area-at.html May 2014].
**Required "REF returnable" status.
**Reviews excluding "systematic reviews that include novel findings" ineligible for funding across all schools, excluding [http://www.aston.ac.uk/aston-business-school/ Aston Business School (ABS)].

== B ==

*[https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/ University of Bamberg]
**[https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/ub/publishing/open-access-publishing/open-access-funds/ Fund] available to members of the [https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/ University of Bamberg].
**Limited to fully OA publications.
**Maximum award of 2,000€.

* [http://www.ub.edu/web/ub/en/index.html? Universitat de Barcelona]
** The [http://www.ub.edu/gaper/gapeicat.html fund] was [http://convocatories.ub.es/cgi-bin/veurereg.cgi?G_USCODI=5202&G_ENTORN=CEMA&IDNC=201009011018490&G_LLISTA=cerca&G_CODI=1035 announced] in July 2010 and began accepting applications on September 1, 2010.
** The U of Barcelona is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** The fund will not pay publication fees at hybrid OA journals.

*[https://www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/index.html University of Bayreuth]
**The [http://www.ub.uni-bayreuth.de/en/digitale_bibliothek/open_access/index.html Open-Access Publishing Fund of the University of Bayreuth] is available to [https://www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/index.html University of Bayreuth] corresponding or submitting authors.
**Fund operates with support form the [http://www.dfg.de/en/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)], renewed in [http://www.ub.uni-bayreuth.de/de/news_archiv/OA-Publikationsfonds/index.html 2013].
**Funded "publication fees should not exceed a maximum of 2.000 Euro per article.".
**Funder acknowledgement encouraged.

* [http://http://www.uib.no/ Universitetet i Bergen]
** The [https://www.uib.no/ub/en/services/scientific-publishing/publication-fund-for-open-access-at-the-university-of-bergen fund] at the University of Bergen started to accept applications in October 2013.
** Corresponding authors from the university can apply to cover APC for accepted peer reviewed articles in Open Access journals and hybrid Open Access.
** It is also possible to apply to cover author payment for other types of scientific material, like books.

* [http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/index.html Freie Universität Berlin]
** The [http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/open_access/dienstleistungen/publikationsfonds/index.html fund] was launched in 2012 with a grant from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through the [http://www.dfg.de/foerderung/programme/infrastruktur/lis/lis_foerderangebote/open_access_publizieren/ program “open access publishing”] to support university OA journal funds. The DFG supplies 75% of the fund, and the university 25%.
** The fund limit is EUR 2,000 per article.
** The fund covers only articles in full open access journals and will not pay fees at hybrid OA journals.
** The fund will only pay for articles in peer reviewed journals included in the DOAJ.
** The fund will only pay for articles for which the 'submitting author' or 'corresponding author' is from Freie Universität Berlin.

* [http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/%28en%29/index_international.html Universität Bielefeld]
** The [http://oa.uni-bielefeld.de/en/publikationsfonds.html fund] was launched in 2009 with a grant from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through the [http://www.dfg.de/foerderung/programme/infrastruktur/lis/lis_foerderangebote/open_access_publizieren/ program “open access publishing”] and has been renewed each year since.
** The fund limit is EUR 2,000 per article.
** The fund covers only articles in full and immediate open access journals and will not pay fees at hybrid OA journals.
** The fund will only pay for articles for which the 'submitting author' or 'corresponding author' is from Bielefeld University.
** A standard acknowledgment of the fund's support must appear in the published article.

* [http://www.bc.edu/ Boston College]
** The [http://libguides.bc.edu/oafund Boston College Open Access Fund] covers the cost of publication fees associated with open access journals
** Awards available for all Boston College faculty, researchers, and enrolled students without external funding to cover costs
** Eligible journals needs to be peer-reviewed, fully open access, with publicly available standard article fee schedules, and a policy of waving fees under economic hardship.
** All articles published with funding from Boston College Open Access Fund must be deposited in the [http://www.bc.edu/libraries/collections/eScholarshipHome/ eScholarship@BC repository]
** Annual funding limit per person of $3000
** The [http://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals], the [http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association] as well as the [http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ watch list] of publishers with suspicious practices will be consulted in order to determine journal eligibility.

* [http://home.bournemouth.ac.uk/ Bournemouth University]
** The [http://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/files/2011/08/Open-Access-Fund-policy-180711.pdf fund] officially [http://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/2011/08/01/launch-of-the-bu-open-access-publication-fund/ launched] on August 1, 2011.
** The fund covers both full OA and hybrid OA fees.
** Authors may "apply for funds on multiple occasions during the academic year."
** It is explicitly stated that authors receiving funds "must adhere to the [http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/library/researchers/documents/academic_publications_policy.pdf BU Citations and Repository Policy]".

* [http://www.brandeis.edu/ Brandeis University]
** The [http://scholcomm.brandeis.edu/open-access/brandeis-open-access-fund-description/ Brandeis LTS Open Access Fund] covers the cost of open access publishing frees for Brandeis faculty, staff, and enrolled students
** Covers 100% of fees associated with open access publishing, with a limit of $3000
** Funding is available for open access journals that do not charge fees to institutions, libraries, or individual readers to access content and do not have embargo periods, including members of the [http://oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association], journals listed in the [http://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals] that allows authors to retain distribution rights, and hybrid journals that allow authors to retain distribution rights

*[http://www.uni-bremen.de/en.html Universität Bremen]
**[http://www.suub.uni-bremen.de/literatur-verwalten/open-access-in-bremen/ Fund] awarded to Universität Bremen scientists, supporting advance payment and reimbursement options.
**Fund launched in 2010 in connection to [http://www.dfg.de/en/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft].
**"Open Choice" publication not eligible for funding.

*[https://www.bhf.org.uk/ British Heart Foundation]
**Funds available under the [https://www.bhf.org.uk/research/information-for-researchers/managing-your-grant/open-access-policy British Heart Foundation Open Access Policy], in connection to the [https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/managing-grant/charity-open-access-fund Charity Open Access Fund (COAF)] as of October 2014 in addition to direct reimbursement of publication costs.
**Policy indicates required [http://europepmc.org/ Europe PMC] deposit "no later than 6 months after publication.".

* [http://www.brunel.ac.uk/ Brunel University]
** The [http://www.brunel.ac.uk/life/study/library/researcher/openaccess Brunel University Open Access Publishing Fund] was set up in 2009.
** Funds are available for both full OA or hybrid journals.
** Funded work is "expected to [be] deposit[ed]" in the [http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/1704/browse?type=title&submit_browse=Title Brunel University Research Archive], and "articles that are funded should request a Licence to publish from the relevant publisher rather than signing a standard copyright transfer agreement."

== C ==

* [http://www.ucalgary.ca/ University of Calgary]
** The [http://library.ucalgary.ca/services/-faculty/open-access/open-access-authors-fund-0 Open Access Authors Fund] was launched June 23, 2008. This was the first OA journal fund at a Canadian University.
** Also see the [http://www.biomedcentral.com/download/info/CalgaryCaseStudyFinal.pdf BMC case study] on the Calgary fund (undated).
** Also see the [http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/articles/mp-berkeley-calgary.shtml SPARC case study] on the Calgary fund (undated but September 2009).
** The fund will pay publication fees only of hybrid OA journals "''that reduce subscription fees in response to the take-up of their Open Access programs''" (December 2009).

*[http://universityofcalifornia.edu/ University of California]
**[http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/scholarly-publishing/open-access/open-access-funds/ Fund] available to University of California faculty, launched in [http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/groups/files/cls/docs/UC%20Open%20Access%20Pilot%20Report%20FINAL%20072914.pdf 2012].
**Participating University of California institutions include: [http://www.berkeley.edu/ UC Berkeley], [https://www.ucdavis.edu/ UC Davis], [https://uci.edu/ UC Irvine], [http://www.ucmerced.edu/ UC Merced], [https://ucsd.edu/ UC San Diego], [https://www.ucsf.edu/ UC San Francisco], and [http://www.ucsb.edu/ UC Santa Barbara] listed below.

* [http://www.berkeley.edu/ University of California, Berkeley]
** The [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/brii/ fund] was launched January 21, 2008. Also see the [http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/02/27_research.shtml second announcement], February 27, 2008.
** [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/scholarlycommunication/oa_fees.html Page of fees] charged by selected fee-based OA journals.
** UC Berkeley is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** Also see the [http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/articles/mp-berkeley-calgary.shtml SPARC case study] on the Berkeley fund (undated but September 2009).
** Awards up to $300 of cost for open access articles (fee, immediate access, and unrestricted non-commercial reuse)
** The fund will pay publication fees of hybrid OA journals, but has a cap on the maximum to be paid of $1500 per article, with four awards per author per fiscal year (December 2009).
** Also provides funding for publishers. Awards up to $3000 per calendar year for book publishers and up to $4000 per calendar year for open access journal publishers.
** The fund is part of the [http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/01/31/uc-libraries-announce-open-access-publishing-fund-pilot/ California Digital Library Open Access Publishing Fund].

*[https://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ University of California, Davis Library]
**The [http://guides.lib.ucdavis.edu/openaccess/ UC Davis Open Access Fund] is available to "UC Davis Academic Senate, Academic Federation members, faculty, post-docs, residents, fellows, and graduate students who do not have grant funds that can be used for open access charges are eligible to apply for funds from the UC-OAF."
**Launched in 2012.
**Maximum award of $1,000 for publication in OA journals at a limit of "one article per author per year.".

*[https://www.lib.uci.edu/ University of California, Irvine Libraries]
**The [http://www.lib.uci.edu/uci-libraries-open-access-publishing-fund UCI Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund] supports "open access publishing charges for researchers who do not have grant funds available to cover them" available to "UC Irvine faculty, post-doctoral scholars, researchers, graduate students and staff".
**Pilot fund launched in 2013, ending in 2014 with continued application available for publication in [http://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals?key=title&value=current#Royal%20Society%20of%20Chemistry%20(RSC)%20journals Royal Society of Chemistry journals].
**Maximum award of $3,000 for publication in OA journals and $1,500 for publication in hybrid journals on a per-article basis, limited to "a cap of one article per author per year".

*[http://library.ucmerced.edu/ University of California, Merced Library]
**The [http://libguides.ucmerced.edu/c.php?g=15868&p=1220927 UC Merced Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Scholar OA Fund] functions to "support open access publishing costs for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.".
**Pilot fund launched in January 2015, concluding in June 2015.
**Funding limits undefined.

* [http://www.ucsd.edu/ University of California, San Diego]
** [http://ucsdchemopportunities.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/uc-san-diego-open-access-fund/ Announced] in November 2012, The [http://ucsd.libguides.com/openaccess/ fund] aim to "offset open access publishing charges for authors who do not have grant funds available to cover them".
** "The fund will pay up to $1000 per article in a fully open access journal (journals in which all articles are immediately available open access)." Articles in hybrid journals do not qualify for funding.
** The fund is available to UC San Diego faculty, graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, researchers, and staff.
** The fund is part of the [http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/01/31/uc-libraries-announce-open-access-publishing-fund-pilot/ California Digital Library Open Access Publishing Fund] and is being run on a pilot basis.

* [http://www.ucsf.edu/ University of California, San Francisco]
** The pilot [http://www.library.ucsf.edu/help/scholpub/oafund/ fund] aims to "cover open access publication fees for scholars who do not have grant or other funds available to cover them".
** "The fund will pay up to Up to $2,000 per article published in fully OA journals and up to $1,000 per article published in hybrid OA journal, restricted to one article per author, and two articles per lab during the pilot's timeframe. Find more eligibility criteria [http://www.library.ucsf.edu/help/scholpub/oafund/eligibility here].
** The fund is available to UC San Francisco faculty, graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, researchers, and staff.
** The fund is part of the [http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2013/01/31/uc-libraries-announce-open-access-publishing-fund-pilot/ California Digital Library Open Access Publishing Fund] and is being run on a pilot basis.
** As of May 16, 2013, the fund is on hold due to its popularity, having already run out of its allocated funds.

*[http://www.ucsb.edu/ University of California, Santa Barbara]
**The [http://www.library.ucsb.edu/scholarly-communication/ucsb-open-access-fund UCSB Open Access Fund] is available to "UCSB faculty members, post-doctoral scholars, graduate students, researchers, lecturers, scientists, librarians, and other non-Senate academic appointees", supporting publication in open journals, and publication of open monigraphs, data, and conference proceedings.
**From July 2016 forward, "the UCSB Open Access Fund will only be accepting applications from assistant professors, post docs, and graduate students.".
**Fund pilot launched in [http://www.library.ucsb.edu/news/2012/11/open-access-fund-launched November 2012].
**Limited to publication in journals shown in the [https://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)], and "limited to authors with no external funding" available for OA publishing.
**Maximum award of $3,000 annually.

*[http://www.cancer.ca/en/region-selector-page/?url=%2fen%2f Canadian Cancer Society]
**Funding available in connection to the Canadian Cancer Society [http://www.cancer.ca/en/research/policies-and-administration/policies/open-access-policy/ Open Access Policy], active from July 2013 forward.
**Policy includes "support for any charges levied by publishers that are required to comply with this open access process. Such charges may be included as legitimate research expenses (fully justified as with all other expenses) in the budget of a research grant submission.".
**Funding limits undefined.

*[http://www.cfhi-fcass.ca/ Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement (CFHI)]
**[http://www.cfhi-fcass.ca/Migrated/PDF/OpenAccesstoResearchOutputs.pdf Policy on Open Access Research Outputs] indicates fund availability in connection to submitted grant proposals, noting, "Expenses that researchers may incur related to having their submissions evaluated or published by open access or hybrid journals can be included as eligible expenses as of October 2008.".
**Organization [http://www.cfhi-fcass.ca/AboutUs/History.aspx formerly] known as Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF).

*[http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/193.html Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)]
**Funding available as "an eligible expense under the [http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/FinancialAdminGuide-GuideAdminFinancier/FundsUse-UtilisationSubventions_eng.asp Use of Grant Funds]", as outlined in the [http://www.science.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=F6765465-1 Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications] dated February 2015, superseding the existing [http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/46068.html Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Open Access Policy] effective as of January 2008.
**Limited to "journals[s] that offers immediate open access or that offers open access on its website within [http://www.science.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=F6765465-1 12 months].".

*[http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/ Cancer Research UK]
**Funding identified in larger [http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/funding-for-researchers/applying-for-funding/policies-that-affect-your-grant/policy-on-open-access Cancer Research UK Policy on Open Access], in connection to the [https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/managing-grant/charity-open-access-fund Charity Open Access Fund (COAF)] beginning in October 2014.
**In addition, "Researchers that receive funding from us but are not based at an institution which receives support from the COAF may use any unspent grants to pay for APCs.".
**Required CC-BY license for publications covered by OA publication funds.
**Required funder acknowledgement and [https://europepmc.org/ Europe PMC] deposit "no later than 6 months after publication.".

*[http://carleton.ca/ Carleton University]
**The [https://library.carleton.ca/services/scholarly-communications/open-access/curie-fund Carleton University Research Impact Endeavour (CURIE) Fund] is available to "Carleton University faculty, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students and full-time professional staff" for "Articles accepted for publication after [https://library.carleton.ca/sites/default/files/about/projects/curie_final.pdf March 1, 2012]"; fund currently on hold.
** Funding limited to journals maintaining "reasonable article processing fees" for "eligible peer-reviewed open access journals for which no alternative funding is available.".
** Limited to publication in journals included in the [http://www.doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)] which maintain [http://oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)] membership or [http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) Code of Conduct] compliance including "a publicly available standard fee schedule" and waiver policy.
**Funding limited "$2500 per article for fully Open Access journals and a cap on any one author of $5000 per year.", including "one application can be made per article".
**Required note of [http://carleton.ca/ Carleton University] affiliation in funded publication.

*[http://www.cmu.edu/index.shtml/ Carnegie Mellon University]
** "To help level the playing field and encourage Carnegie Mellon authors to publish in open access journals, at the request of campus faculty the [http://search.library.cmu.edu/ University Libraries] has [http://search.library.cmu.edu/services/apc/ agreed], on an experimental basis and under certain conditions, to help CMU authors pay reasonable APCs to publish their peer-reviewed articles in open access journals."
** The fund payments are limited to $1,500 per article, and capped at £3,000 per author per fiscal year, conditional upon the type of OA journals being published in, and the article author's external funding status.

* [http://www.cifor.org/ Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)]
**Funding available to be included in proposed grant budgets, as outlined in the [http://www.cifor.org/fileadmin/downloads/CIFOR-Policy-on-Open-Access.pdf CIFOR policy on open access] dated April 10, 2015.
**Connected policy "applies to articles published in peer-reviewed academic journals and in-center produced books, occasional and working papers, research report series, audio/video, and photographs" created in connection to [http://www.cifor.org/ CIFOR], to be released under a "default" CC BY license.
**Required deposit in [http://www.cifor.org/ CIFOR] repository.

* [http://www.cern.ch/ CERN] (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
** The [http://library.web.cern.ch/library/OpenAccess/OpenAccessPolicy.html fund].
** CERN is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE). See the [http://www.oacompact.org/news/2010/12/2/cern-joins-cope.html announcement] from December 2, 2010.
** The fund only supports full OA publications, "and not for so called 'hybrid' journals, which sell subscriptions and make part of their content available Open Access: the CERN Library has already paid for those journals, so Open Access fees cannot be covered."

*[http://www.chalmers.se/en/Pages/default.aspx Chalmers University of Technology] (Sweden)
** The [http://www.lib.chalmers.se/publicering/open-access/fond-foer-oa-publicering/ Fund for Open Access publishing] covers the costs of publication fees associated with publishing in OA journals
** Journals must be listed in the [http://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals]
** Authors must be employed at Chalmers and articles need to recognize the Open Access Fund
** Full text of the articles need to be uploaded in the [http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/ Chalmers Publication Library] at date of publication

*[http://www.uic.edu/ University of Illinois at Chicago]
**The [http://researchguides.uic.edu/c.php?g=252383&p=1683485 UIC Research Open Access Article Publishing Fund (ROAAP) Fund] is eligible to "University of Illinois at Chicago faculty, researchers, staff, post-docs, and students.".
**Awards "provide full coverage for OA fees under $600", "half of the OA publishing fee (up to $1,500) when the OA publishing fees is more than $600", and " “Open choice” or “paid access” fees -- up to $1500 per article", to journals meeting established standards.
**Grant funded research ineligible.
**Funded paper must be deposited in institutional repository [https://indigo.uic.edu/ INDIGO] and cite fund in the corresponding publication.

* [http://hslibrary.ucdenver.edu/ University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus - Health Sciences Library]
** [http://hslibrary.ucdenver.edu/open-access Open Access Fund] is available to students and early career professionals without additional grant funding to pay for any author processing charges associated with open access journals
** Awards of up to $1000
** Only eligible for open access journals that comply with [http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) Code of Conduct]

*[http://www.colorado.edu/libraries/ University of Colorado Boulder Libraries]
**[http://www.colorado.edu/libraries/research-assistance/open-access/open-access-fund Fund] available for "faculty, staff and students" of [http://www.colorado.edu/ University of Colorado Boulder].
**Maximum award of $2,000 per-article annually for articles published in an [http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Code of Conduct] compliant journal.
**Publication in hybrid journals not eligible for funding.

*[http://www.colostate.edu/ Colorado State University, Fort Collins]:[http://libguides.colostate.edu/oars/ Open Access Research and Scholarship (OARS)] Fund
** "[http://facultycouncil.colostate.edu/index.asp?url=committees_chairs/ CSU Faculty Council Committee on Libraries], has allocated $45,000 to establish the Open Access fund", to "encourage submission and reduce barriers to open access publishing as a scholarly communications option".
** CSU tenured and tenure-track faculty are eligible for up to $2,500 of support per year, under certain [http://libguides.colostate.edu/oars#funding/ conditions].

* [http://www.columbia.edu/ Columbia University]
** The [http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/coap-fund fund] was launched on February 1, 2010.
** Columbia is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** The fund will not pay publication fees of hybrid OA journals (February 2010).
** The maximum the fund will cover for a "single article is $3,000"; for a multiauthor work, "each eligible author can apply for reimbursement for a prorated portion of the publication fee."
** Complete guidelines are [http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/services/coap-fund/#coapfund1 provided].

*[http://www.concordia.ca/ Concordia University]
**The [http://library.concordia.ca/help/open-access/author-fund.php Concordia Open Access Author Fund] supports publication in open journals and monographs for "all full-time and part-time faculty members, staff, currently registered graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows affiliated with Concordia.".
**Funding available from June 2011 forward.
**Maximum award of $3,000 capped at two funding requests annually.
**Subscription based and hybrid publications are not eligible for funding.
**Funding limited to journals included in the [https://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)] that maintain membership with the [http://oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association] or are [http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Code of Conduct] compliant and support fee waiver.
**Mandatory deposit in institutional repository, [http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/ Spectrum].

*[http://uconn.edu/ University of Connecticut]
**The [http://uchc.libguides.com/c.php?g=377231&p=2552574 University of Connecticut Open Access Author Fund] is "available to any [http://uconn.edu/ University of Connecticut] faculty, post‐doctoral researcher, staff member, or graduate student author.", acting as corresponding author.
**Limited to publication in journals shown in the [https://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)], maintaining [http://oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)] membership or [http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association OASPA Code of Conduct] compliance in addition to maintaining a "publicly available a standard article fee schedule". Hybrid publications ineligible for funding.
**Maximum award of $1,250 per-article and $2,500 for each author or research group annually.
**Mandatory inclusion of author [http://uconn.edu/ University of Connecticut] affiliation in funded publication.
**Mandatory deposit in institutional repository, [http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/ DigitalCommons@UConn].

* [http://www.cornell.edu/ Cornell University]
** The [http://www.library.cornell.edu/compact/ fund] was launched September 15, 2009.
** Cornell is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** The fund will not pay publication fees of hybrid OA journals (December 2009).
** The maximum the fund will cover for a "single article is $3,000"; for multiauthor works, "each author is responsible for a prorated portion of any publishing fees."

== D ==

* [http://www.Dartmouth.edu/ Dartmouth College]
** The [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/schcomm/OACompact.html fund] was launched September 15, 2009.
** Dartmouth is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** The fund will not pay publication fees of hybrid OA journals.
** The maximum the fund will pay per article is $3,000; for multiauthor works, "an individual author’s support will be set at a prorated portion of the publication fee, which will be set by dividing the fee by the number of authors."

* [http://www.tudelft.nl/ Delft University of Technology]
** In October 2010, the [http://www.library.tudelft.nl/en/support/researchers/publishing-support/open-access-fund/ fund] [http://www.openaccess.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=201:tu-delft-open-access-journal-mechanical-sciences-launched&catid=1:news-archive started to pay] the production costs of Delft-published peer-reviewed OA journals.
** The fund covers journal articles, book chapters, and books.
** Fund recipients must "ensure that the subsidised publication will be registered in [https://intranet.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=f10d105f-f055-4fd7-aa3c-3432396ffcc6&lang=en Metis]."

*[http://www.dfg.de/en/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)]
**The [http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/infrastructure/lis/funding_opportunities/open_access_publishing/index.html Open-Access Publishing Programme] "supports research universities in the establishment of publication funds" for [http://www.dfg.de/formulare/12_20/12_20_en.pdf 12 month] periods with potential for renewal, available to institutions [http://www.dfg.de/formulare/12_20/12_20_en.pdf based in Germany].
**Funded institutions "must contribute a fixed share of the requested funding volume" to a sum of "at least 25% of the publication funding calculated for the proposal year" as identified in fund [http://www.dfg.de/formulare/12_20/12_20_en.pdf guidelines].
**Limited to publication in fully OA journals maintaining fees up to [http://www.dfg.de/formulare/12_20/12_20_en.pdf 2,000€]; publication in subscription based journals [http://www.dfg.de/formulare/12_20/12_20_en.pdf ineligible].
**Limited submitting and corresponding authors affiliated with included universities.

*[https://www.uni-due.de/ Universität Duisburg-Essen]
**[https://www.uni-due.de/ub/open_access.shtml Fund] launched in 2016.
**Fund limited to Universität Duisburg-Essen members acting as an author for the funded publication.
**Maximum award of 50% of publication charge capped at 1,000€, limited to journals included in the [https://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)].

* [http://www.duke.edu/ Duke University]
** The [http://library.duke.edu/openaccess/cope.html fund] was [http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2010/10/open_access.html announced] on October 4, 2010.
** Duke is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** Funds may only be spent on articles in full (not hybrid) OA journals, journals listed in the [http://www.doaj.org/ DOAJ], and journals published by members of the [http://www.oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association]. Funds are not available to authors who could use grant money to pay the same publication fees.
** Funds are available to Duke faculty, post-docs, and graduate and professional students.
** Individual authors may not receive more than $3,000/year from the fund. Apart from that, "reimbursement is on a first come, first served basis up until the funding for a given year is exhausted."

*[http://www.dunhillmedical.org.uk/page/default.asp?title=welcome&pid=1 Dunhill Medical Trust]
**Fund available in connection to the [http://www.dunhillmedical.org.uk/_files/D7F0395691A12397B44F6F3E1C5A4028.pdf Dunhill Medical Trust Open Access Policy] last dated July 2014, noting that "Grant holders may apply to DMT for a contribution towards the valid costs of open access fees levied by publishers" but must include both evidence of publisher acceptance and invoice.
**Maximum award varied by grant size by the following limits:
***Under £50,000 = £1,000
***Between £50,000 and £100,000 = £2,000
***Above £100,000 = £3,000
**For publications with multiple funders, "DMT will only pay a percentage of the APC in line with the percentage of the funds that have been provided by DMT to support the research.".
**Deposit mandated by [http://www.dunhillmedical.org.uk/_files/users/Sarah/openaccessnov2012.pdf Dunhill Medical Trust Open Access Policy].

* [http://www.hhu.de/ Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf]
** The [http://www.openaccess.hhu.de/open-access-fonds.html fund] was [http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/home/universitaet/weiterfuehrend/pressebereich/pressemeldungen/pressearchiv/news-detailansicht/article/hhu-und-dfg-unterstuetzen-open-access-publikationen.html?cHash=12fe9d8d3e94720a8f262ad6eff20275 announced] on October 20, 2011.
** Funds may only be spent on articles in full (not hybrid) OA journals, journals listed in the [http://www.doaj.org/ DOAJ].
** The fund limit is € 2,000 per article.
** Funds are limited to articles for which the "'submitting author' or 'corresponding author'" is from Heinrich Heine University.

== E ==
*[http://www.epfl.ch/ Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)]
**[http://library.epfl.ch/OA_Support/en Fund] available to EPFL authors from 2016 forward.
**Maximum award of 2,500 CHF.
**Eligible journals for publication are shown in the [https://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)] or the [http://oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)]; publication in hybrid journals ineligible for funding.
**Institutional membership to [https://www.plos.org/ Public Library of Science (PLoS)] funds full publication fees of PLoS journals; available to EPFL corresponding authors.
**Supports access to publication discounts for multiple publishers.

*[http://ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm European Commission]
**[https://www.openaire.eu/postgrantoapilot Fund] available to "support Open Access publications arising from FP7 projects" meeting identified [https://www.openaire.eu/postgrantoapilot guidelines].
**[https://www.openaire.eu/postgrantoapilot Fund] operating under [https://www.openaire.eu/pilot-launched-to-cover-costs-of-oa-publishing OpenAire2020 "Funding Open Access for Post-Grant FP7 Publications"] launched [https://www.openaire.eu/postgrantoapilot January 2015] and "will run until the funding is exhausted, but for no longer than two years (until the end of [https://www.openaire.eu/postgrantoapilot April 2017]).".
**Maximum award of 2,000€, limited to 3 openly licensed and peer reviewed publications funded publications in connection to a given FP7 project; hybrid publication ineligible. Requirements and criteria outlined in [https://www.openaire.eu/postgrantoapilot fund pilot overview].
**[https://www.openaire.eu/postgrantoapilot Required] deposit of publisher-provided PDF of funded publication into "[https://www.openaire.eu/participate/deposit-publications-data OpenAIRE-compliant repository]" and must include "At least one additional format that allows text and data mining". Deposit metadata must include licensing info relating to funded publication.
**[https://www.openaire.eu/postgrantoapilot Required] DOI in addition to funder acknowledgement in publication and corresponding deposit metadata.

*[https://erc.europa.eu/ European Research Council (ERC)]
**[https://erc.europa.eu/faq/13290 Funds] available as eligible costs included in larger grant funds, "if they are incurred during the lifetime of the project and provided that they are in line with the requirements for direct costs as listed in Article II.14 of the General Conditions of the ERC Grant Agreement ([http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/fp7/91910/fp7-lga-annex2mono_en.pdf Single] and [http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/fp7/92042/fp7-lga-annex2multi_en.pdf Multi-Beneficiary])."
**Required repository [https://erc.europa.eu/faq/13292 deposit].

* [http://www.uni-erlangen.de/ University of Erlangen-Nürnberg]
** The [http://www.ub.uni-erlangen.de/open-access/ fund] was launched in 2010.
** The fund will not pay fees at hybrid OA journals.
** The fund will be rewarded to the "'submitting' or 'corresponding author'" of a work, if from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.
** The fund awards a maximum of € 2,000.00 per article.

* [http://www.ethz.ch/ ETH Zurich] (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
** The [http://www.open-access.ethz.ch/oazurich/policy_EN fund] was launched in 2008.
** The fund will not pay fees at hybrid OA journals using the double-charge model (December 2009).

* [http://www.emory.edu/ Emory University]
** The [http://open.library.emory.edu/authors/oa-fund/ fund] was launched on September 1, 2012.
** The fund will not pay publication fees of hybrid OA journals.
** The maximum the fund will cover for a single article is $1,500; for a multi-author work, each eligible Emory author can apply for reimbursement for a prorated portion of the publication fee.
** Funds are available to Emory faculty, post-docs, graduate and professional students, and undergraduate students.
** Funded works must be deposited into the University's repository, [http://open.library.emory.edu/ OpenEmory].
** Complete guidelines are [http://open.library.emory.edu/authors/oa-fund/ provided].

* [http://www.exeter.ac.uk/ University of Exeter]
** The [http://as.exeter.ac.uk/library/resources/openaccess/whatisopenaccess/gettinghelpwithopenaccesspublishingatexeter/ fund] is a pilot project in 2012.
** The fund is partially supported by the [http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/ Wellcome Trust], so "Wellcome-funded researchers [are encouraged] to apply for funds."

== F ==

*[http://www.fiu.edu/ Florida International University]
**The [http://libguides.fiu.edu/c.php?g=203753&p=1344033 Open Access Publishing Fund] is available to "Any FIU Faculty member or doctoral candidate", including eligible postdoctoral authors.
**[http://libguides.fiu.edu/c.php?g=203753&p=1344033 Fund] launched in 2013 and active through August 2015. The fund is currently suspended from 2016 - 2017.
**Maximum award of $3,000 for publication in fully OA journals, and a limit of $1,500 for publication in hybrid journals. For publications with more than one author, "Each eligible author can apply for a prorated portion of the article processing fees.".
**Fund maintains list of [http://libguides.fiu.edu/OAP/publishers approved publishers] for funded publications.
**Encouraged deposit in institutional repository, [http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/ FIU Digital Commons].

* [https://www.fsu.edu/ Florida State University]
** The [https://www.lib.fsu.edu/tads/open-access-fund Open Access Publishing Fund] supports publishing costs for eligible open access journals and books where external funding is not available
** Awards given to Florida State University faculty, post-docs, researchers, and enrolled students
** Limited to one fund reimbursement per year with preference given to authors not previously funded
** Maximum reimbursement of $1,500
** Only available for publishers who are listed in the [http://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals] (DOAJ), the [http://www.doabooks.org/ Directory of Open Access Books] (DOAB), or members of the [http://oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publisher's Association] (OASPA)
** All publications funded through the Open Access Publishing Fund must be depositing in [http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/ DigiNole Commons], Florida State University's digital repository.

* [http://www.ufl.edu/ University of Florida]
** The [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/oa/procedures.pdf fund] became operational on July 1, 2010, and has been extended through the 2012-2013 fiscal year.
** The fund will award an author "$3,000 per year," with $3,000 awarded to full OA publications and 1,500 awarded to hybrid OA publications.
** Fund awards for multiauthor works are prorated.
** The "post-review, final draft of the article [must be posted] to UF’s institutional repository" for funded works.

*[http://www.telethon.it/en/ Fondazione Telethon]
**[http://www.telethon.it/en/research/for-researchers/open-access/policy Funds] available to support publications originally ineligible for [https://europepmc.org/ Europe PMC] deposit, as outlined in connection to the [http://www.telethon.it/en/ Fondazione Telethon] [http://www.telethon.it/en/research/for-researchers/open-access/policy Open Access Policy].
**Available to publications in connection to [http://www.telethon.it/en/ Fondazione Telethon] funded research, appearing in an English language journal.
**Requested CC-BY licensing for funded publications and required "immediate deposit in PMC and Europe PMC".

* [http://www.fraunhofer.de/en/index.jsp Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft]
** Launched in Summer 2008. Current status is unknown. [http://open-access.net/fileadmin/oa-net-work/workshop2/oa-net-workshop-HH2009-VorstellungFraunhofer.pdf Source].

*[https://www.uni-freiburg.de/ University of Freiburg]
**Fund available to University of Freiburg authors acting as submitting or corresponding author to publication.
**Fund operates in connection to [http://www.dfg.de/en/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)].
**Limited to publication fees up to 2,000€; hybrid publication ineligible for funding.
**Mandatory funder acknowledgement and deposit in institutional repository, [https://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/ FreiDok plus].

*[http://www2.frs-fnrs.be/index.php Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS)]
**[http://www2.frs-fnrs.be/en/index.php/open-access-en Funds] available for "F.R.S.-FNRS Grants, CDR, and PDR recipients to claim the costs of immediate publication in OA journals" beginning in February 2014.
**Maximum award of [http://www2.frs-fnrs.be/en/index.php/open-access-en 500€] per article.

== G ==

*[http://www.gmu.edu/ George Mason University]
** The [http://scholarly.gmu.edu/?page_id=549 Mason Open Access Publishing Fund] was launched in October 2012.
** Funds may be requested to publish in reputable full OA and eligible hybrid journals.
** The fund maximum award is $3,000 per article, with an annual cap of $3,000 per author. Multi-authored works are pro-rated.
** Recipients of grant funds that may be used to pay OA publishing fees are asked not to apply.
** A statement of acknowledgment is required in the article.
** Funded works must be deposited into MARS, the university's digital repository.

*[https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/1.html University of Göttingen]
**[https://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/electronic-publishing/open-access/open-access-publication-funding/ Fund] launched in 2012.
**Limited to authors whom are a "researcher at Göttingen University as well as the corresponding or submitting author of the publication.", as shown in [https://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/fileadmin/media/texte/informationsversorgung_z/epu/publfund_flyer_en_final_131209.pdf attached document].
**Publication limited to fully OA journals; subscription based journals are ineligible for funding.
**Retroactive reimbursement available.
**Maximum award varied by fee:
***Up to 2,000€: Fully funded by [http://www.dfg.de/foerderung/programme/infrastruktur/lis/lis_awbi/open_access/gefoerderte_projekte/index.html Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)].
***Over 2,000€: Funded by the [https://www.propag-ageing.eu/consortium/consortium/university-medical-center-of-goettingen-umg-goe University Medical Center of Goettingen (UMG-GOE)] up to 5,000€.

*[http://www.gvsu.edu/ Grand Valley State University]
** The [http://libguides.gvsu.edu/content.php?pid=244156&sid=2017089 Open Access Publishing Support Fund] was launched in September 2011.
** The fund covers both full OA and hybrid publications that do not have an embargo period.
** The fund maximum award is "$3,000 per year," and funding for multiauthor works is prorated.
** Grand Valley State University must appear as the fund-awarded author's affiliation.
** Funded works must be deposited into the University's repository.

== H ==

*[https://www.tuhh.de/alt/tuhh/startpage.html Hamburg University of Technology]
**[https://www.tub.tuhh.de/en/publishing/openaccess/publishing-fund/ Fund] available to Hamburg University of Technology corresponding or submitting authors, launched in 2013 in coordination with [http://www.dfg.de/en/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)].
**Limited to publication in fully OA journals with publication costs up to 2,000€.
**Funded publication must contain funder acknowledgement.

*[https://www.bi.no/ Handelshøyskolen (BI)]
**[https://www.bi.no/bibliotek/For-faglig-ansatte/Open-access/ Fund] available to [https://www.bi.no/ Handelshøyskolen (BI)] employees and Ph.D. candidates publishing as corresponding author; some flexibility available for other [https://www.bi.no/ Handelshøyskolen (BI)] affiliated authors; required affiliation acknowledgment in supported publication. Requirements indicated in [https://www.bi.no/BibliotekFiles/_nedlastingsfiler/OA%20publ%20retningslinjer%202015_rev.pdf attached document].
**Fund [https://www.bi.no/BibliotekFiles/_nedlastingsfiler/OA%20publ%20retningslinjer%202015_rev.pdf guidelines] last revised August 2015.
**Support limited to publications included in the [https://dbh.nsd.uib.no/publiseringskanaler/Forside.action?request_locale=en NSD] at levels 1 or 2 and the [https://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)] publishing under a Creative Commons license; hybrid publication ineligible for funding as outlined in [https://www.bi.no/BibliotekFiles/_nedlastingsfiler/OA%20publ%20retningslinjer%202015_rev.pdf attached document].
**Required deposit in institutional repository, [https://brage.bibsys.no/xmlui//handle/11250/92926?locale=no BI Brage].

* [http://www.uni-hannover.de Leibniz Universität Hannover]
** The [http://www.tib.uni-hannover.de/en/advice-and-service/digitales-publizieren/reimbursement-of-open-access-publishing-costs.html fund] was launched in 2013 with support from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
** The fund covers only articles in full open access journals and will not pay fees at hybrid OA journals.
** The fund will only pay for articles in peer reviewed journals, e.g. journals included in the DOAJ.
** The fund limit is EUR 2,000 per article.
** The fund will only pay for articles for which the 'submitting author' or 'corresponding author' is from Leibniz Universität Hannover.
** The fund will only pay for articles "if all alternative sources of finance have been exhausted, particularly when publishing results obtained from third party-funded research".
** The fund must be acknowledged in the published article.

* [http://www.harvard.edu/ Harvard University]
** The [http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/HOPE/ Harvard Open-Access Publication Equity Fund (HOPE) fund] was launched on September 15, 2009.
** Harvard is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** The fund will only pay fees on articles "for which no alternative funding is available" (e.g. from the author's funding agency).
** The fund will not pay publication fees at hybrid OA journals (December 2009).
** Annual funding is capped at $3,000 per author, with multiple authors being "responsible for a prorated portion of any publishing fees" on a shared work.

*[http://www.heartandstroke.com/site/c.ikIQLcMWJtE/b.2796497/k.F922/Heart_Disease_Stroke_and_Healthy_Living.htm Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada]
**Funding available in connection to the [http://www.hsf.ca/research/en/hsf-open-access-research-outputs-policy-guidelines HSF Open Access to Research Outputs Policy] applying to funded research publications from June 2010 forward.
**Policy maintained by the [http://www.heartandstroke.com/site/c.ikIQLcMWJtE/b.2796497/k.F922/Heart_Disease_Stroke_and_Healthy_Living.htm Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada] "covers expenses that researchers reasonably may incur related to publishing in Open Access or hybrid scholarly journals.".
**Under the connected policy, "the full text of all final peer-reviewed manuscripts accepted for publication are freely accessible through the Publisher's website or an online repository within six months of publication date.", including mandatory research data deposit.
**Funding limits undefined.

* [http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/index_e.html Heidelberg University]
** The [http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/Englisch/service/openaccess/publikationsfonds.html Heidelberg Open Access Publication Fund] was created in 2013
** Covers the cost of publication fees for academics employed at the university
** Eligible articles are accepted into journals that provide free access to their articles immediately upon publishing
** Awards of up to €2,000 per year
** For 2014, the [http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/service/openaccess/publikationsfonds.html fund] will have a total of €121,000

* [http://www.hzdr.de/ Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)]
** The fund was launched in April 2011, administrated by the library.
** The fund limit is EUR 3,000 per article.
** The fund does not cover hybrid journals fees.
** The fund will only pay for articles in peer reviewed journals included in the DOAJ.
** Funding is available to submitting or corresponding authors from HZDR.

* [http://www.helsinki.fi/university/index.html University of Helsinki]
** The institution's [http://www.helsinki.fi/ejulkaiseminen/rinnakkaistallennus/pdf-tiedostot/decision260508_eng.pdf OA policy], adopted June 5, 2008, includes a willingness to pay publication fees at fee-based OA journals.

* [https://www.uni-hohenheim.de/ University of Hohenheim].
** The [https://ub.uni-hohenheim.de/85176.html fund] was approved December 10, 2010, with a grant from the [http://www.dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissenschaft/abgelaufene_ausschreibungen/info_wissenschaft_10_01/index.html DFG's program to support university OA journal funds]. The DFG supplies 75% of the fund, and the university 25%.
** The fund does not cover fees at hybrid journals.
** Funds are available for fees through September 2013.
** The maximum fund amount paid per article is $2000, which is available to articles published "between 07.10.2011 and 30.09.2013."

* [http://www2.hull.ac.uk/ University of Hull]
** [http://www2.hull.ac.uk/lli/library-services/openaccesspublishing.aspx Open Access Publishing Pilot] supports open access publications by researchers at the University of Hull
** £2500 deposited at [https://peerj.com/ PeerJ] and [http://sgo.sagepub.com/ SAGE] available for University of Hull researchers at a first-come, first-serve basis

*[http://www.hfsp.org/ Human Frontier Science Program]
**Publication funding availability expressed in [http://www.hfsp.org/funding/open-access-policy HFSP Open Access Statement], approved March 2014.
**Funding recipients permitted to use provided funds toward costs associated with OA publication.

== I ==

*[https://www.ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship/oafund Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis] (IUPUI).
** The Open Access Publishing Fund was established in [http://news.iupui.edu/releases/2013/09/open-access-fund.shtml 2013] as a pilot program.
** Available to IUPUI faculty until 2015.
** Provides $47,000 to underwrite publication charges in fee-based, peer-reviewed, open access journals.
** Articles publishes through the fund will be available in the [https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/ IUPUIScholarWorks repository].
** Partially funded by the [http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/ University Library], the [http://research.iupui.edu/ovcr/ Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research], the [https://www.dentistry.iu.edu/ School of Dentistry], and the [http://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/ Robert H. McKinney School of Law].

*[http://www.imperial.ac.uk/ Imperial College London]
**[http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/support-for-staff/scholarly-communication/open-access/research-funders-open-access-policies/ Funds] include [http://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/research-and-innovation/scholarly-communication/public/RCUK-fund-management-policy.pdf RCUK Open Access Fund], [https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/managing-grant/charity-open-access-fund Charity Open Access Fund (COAF)], and [http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/support-for-staff/scholarly-communication/open-access/applying-for-funding/ Imperial Open Access Fund].
**[http://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/research-and-innovation/scholarly-communication/public/RCUK-fund-management-policy.pdf RCUK Open Access Fund]
***Available to Imperial College London [http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/support-for-staff/scholarly-communication/open-access/research-funders-open-access-policies/ corresponding authors].
***Required publication under [http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/support-for-staff/scholarly-communication/open-access/research-funders-open-access-policies/ CC-BY] license.
***Effective [http://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/research-and-innovation/scholarly-communication/public/RCUK-fund-management-policy.pdf May 2015].
**[https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/managing-grant/charity-open-access-fund Charity Open Access Fund (COAF)]
***Required publication under [http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/support-for-staff/scholarly-communication/open-access/research-funders-open-access-policies/ CC-BY] license.
***Established [https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/managing-grant/charity-open-access-fund October 2014].
**[http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/support-for-staff/scholarly-communication/open-access/applying-for-funding/ Imperial Open Access Fund]
***Available to "for authors who do not have eligible open access funding in their research award or whose work is not externally funded.".
***Required publication under [http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/support-for-staff/scholarly-communication/open-access/research-funders-open-access-policies/ Creative Commons] license.
***Referenced as early as [http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/administration/library/newssummary/news_12-4-2012-14-45-46 April 2012].

* [http://www.uiowa.edu/ University of Iowa]
** The University of Iowa's [http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/content.php?pid=243634&sid=3701545/ Libraries and Provost's Open Access Fund] "to encourage the University community to consider publishing their research in Open Access journals".
** The fund will also support [https://peerj.com/ PeerJ memberships] for biological and medical scientists. PeerJ, as opposed to other open access publishers, charges a one-time membership fee rather than a per-article fee for authors.
** Administered by the [http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/ University Libraries], the fund allows for up to $3,000 for publication in full open access journals and $1,500 for publication in “hybrid” open access journals.

== J ==

* [http://www.uni-mainz.de/eng/ Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz]
** Fund launched in early 2013 after the university [http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/16290_ENG_HTML.php/ declared its commitment] to OA in January 2013 by adopting the [http://oa.mpg.de/lang/en-uk/berlin-prozess/berliner-erklarung/ Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities].
** "The fund has been established to support open access publications and receives financial support from the [http://www.dfg.de/en/ German Research Foundation (DFG)].
** A total of €85,000 has been budgeted, with a €2,000 maximum per article. Additional criteria can be found [http://www.openaccess.uni-mainz.de/publikationsfonds-der-jgu/die-foerderkriterien/ here].
** The [http://www.ub.uni-mainz.de/eng/ University Library Mainz] has also "completed an institutional membership in the Open Access publisher [http://www.biomedcentral.com/ BioMed Central] for members of Mainz University and University Hospital. This gives researchers a discount of 15% handling fee on all items at [http://www.biomedcentral.com/ BioMed Central], [http://www.chemistrycentral.com/ Chemistry Central] and [http://www.springeropen.com/ SpringerOpen].

* [http://www.uni-giessen.de/uni/english/ Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU)]
** The [http://www.ub.uni-giessen.de/faqs/faqs.php?id=15 fund] was [http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/213685/ announced] March 23, 2011.
** The fund will reimburse up to 100% of article processing charges or author charges in gold OA journals.
** Funding is available to submitting or corresponding authors of works that are members of JLU.

== K ==

*[http://www.k-state.edu/ Kansas State University]
**The [http://www.lib.k-state.edu/publishing-fund K-State Open Access Publishing Fund (KOAPF)] was launched in [http://www.k-state.edu/today/announcement.php?id=16233&category=news&referredBy=todayRSSFeed January 2013].
**Maximum award of $3,000 annually, limited to one funded publication per-author, with some flexibility.
**Limited to Kansas State University authors acting as primary author or authors.
**Publication in hybrid journals are ineligible for funding.
**"Expected" deposit in institutional repository, [http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/ K-REx], and include recognition of fund in publication acknowledgements

*[http://www.kumc.edu/ Kansas University]
** The Kansas Univeristy One-University Open Access Fund was launched in November 2012.
** The fund is a two-year pilot program which allocates $50,000 in two 25,000 annual budgets to "support KU authors who publish in open access journals".
** "KU, KUMC, and KU Law faculty, graduate students, post-docs and staff on the KU main campus in Lawrence and the Medical Center campus in Kansas City are eligible for funding".
** A funding allowance of $2,000 per article is allocated to cover processing fees. More details can be found [http://library.kumc.edu/authors-fund.xml/ here].

* [http://www.ku.edu/ University of Kansas]
** The [http://library.kumc.edu/authors-fund.xml fund] was [http://www.news.ku.edu/2012/october/22/oafund.shtml announced] on October 22, 2012 and will go live in November 2012.
** The fund is a 2-year pilot, "with a total of $50,000 to be shared across campuses.". Third year of pilot announced [https://lib.ku.edu/news/2014/oafund November 2014].
** Funding is available for [http://www.ku.edu/ University of Kansas] "faculty, graduate students, post-docs [or] staff".
** Maximum award of $1,500 per article, limited to one award per-author annually.
**Published works and publication in hybrid and delayed OA journals are ineligible for funding.
**Limited to publication in journals that maintain membership to the [http://oaspa.org/membership/members/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)] or are [http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/ OASPA Code of Conduct] compliant, and are included in the [https://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)].
**Funded publication deposited in [http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/ KU Scholarworks].

* [http://www.kit.edu/kit/english/index.php/ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)]
** The [http://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/cms/kit-publikationsfonds.php fund] started in 2011, with a grant from the DFG's program to support university OA journal funds. The DFG supplies 75% of the fund, and the university 25%.
** The fund does not cover hybrid journal fees.
** Funding is available to submitting or corresponding authors from KIT.
** Funding is limited to publication charges that are a maximum of $2000.

*[http://www.uni-kassel.de University of Kassel]
**The [http://www.uni-kassel.de/ub/index.php?id=37384 Open Access Publication Fund] is available to [http://www.uni-kassel.de University of Kassel] affiliated submitting and corresponding authors, launched in 2013.
**Fund partially supported by [http://www.dfg.de/en/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)].
**Limited to publication in fully OA journals with fees up to 2,000€; hybrid publication ineligible.

*[https://www.wallenberg.com/kaw/en Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation]
**Available funding expressed in the [https://www.wallenberg.com/kaw/en Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation] [https://www.wallenberg.com/kaw/en/funding-guide/grant-policy Grant Policy].
**Publication costs may be included in initial funding application with mandatory deposit, writing "Research funded by the Foundation must be published with open access, that is, published articles must be archived in openly searchable databases. The additional cost for this can be taken up as a direct cost in project applications.".

*[https://www.uni-konstanz.de/ University of Konstanz]
**[http://www.ub.uni-konstanz.de/openaccess/open-access-publikationsfonds-der-universitaet-konstanz/ Fund] available to University of Konstanz corresponding or submitting authors as of January 2011.
**Fund limited to fully OA journals with publication costs to up 2,000€.
**Fund operating in coordination with [http://www.dfg.de/en/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)]

== L ==
*[http://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/en/ Leibniz Association]
**The [http://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/en/infrastructures/open-access/open-access-publishing-fund/ Leibniz Open Access Publishing Fund] is available to [http://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/en/ Leibniz Association] submitting or corresponding authors as of January 2016.
**Maximum award of [http://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/en/infrastructures/open-access/open-access-publishing-fund/funding-conditions/ 2,000€].
**Mandatory funder and Leibniz Association affiliation acknowledgement in funded publication.
**Limited to publication in fully OA journals, which "should be listed in the "[https://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals" (DOAJ)"].
**In addition, "If the article is not published under a Creative Commons license, a second publication right for institutional and subject-specific repositories must be granted by the publisher before the invoice can be paid.".

*[http://www.zv.uni-leipzig.de/ University of Leipzig]
**The [https://www.ub.uni-leipzig.de/1/open-access/publikationsfonds/ Open Access Publishing Fund] is available to [http://www.zv.uni-leipzig.de/ Leipzig University] authors.
**Fund launched in 2014 with in connection to [http://www.dfg.de/en/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)].
**Limited to publication in fully OA journals with a maximum APC of 2,000€.
**Fund acknowledgement encouraged in funded publication.

* [http://www.lu.se/ Lund University]
** The [http://www.lub.lu.se/en/publish/open-access/freely-accessible-journals/funding-for-article-processing-costs.html fund] was [http://www.arl.org/sparc/partner/lund-university-supports-publishing-in-oa-journals.shtml announced] in March 2009. It was apparently launched January 2009.
** Also see the Jörgen Eriksson Lars Bjørnshauge [http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1508/1243 article] about the fund in the January 2009 issue of ''ScieCom Info''.
** The fund will not pay publication fees of hybrid OA journals.
** Fund submissions before "2012-11-01" will be fully funded, while those after will receive "50% of the article publishing cost."
** Funding is available to corresponding authors from Lund with "an active LUCAT-id."

== M ==

* [http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ University of Manchester]
** The [http://manchesterinstituteofeducation.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/open-access-funding-for-article-processing-charges-apcs-still-available/ University APC funds] are provided by the [http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/ UK Research Councils] and [http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/ The Wellcome Trust]
**Available to all academics and research staff, including postdocs, research fellows, associates, and assistants, at the University of Manchester
** Supports gold access for articles or conference proceedings, meaning that the publisher makes the article available freely on their own website, the version of work available is the final version, and the published work is available online as soon as it is published.

* [http://umanitoba.ca/ University of Manitoba]
** The [http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/services/open_access/ Open Access Authors' Fund] is provided by the [http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/ Libraries at the University of Manitoba]. "The Libraries initially began supporting UM researchers OA fees for certain publishers in 2010/11. On October 22nd, 2012 they extended coverage to all open access journals that are eligible." See more information about eligibility [http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/services/open_access/ here].
** The fund is open to all faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers at the University of Manitoba
** The fund supports one OA fee up to the maximum of $3,000 CAD per applicant per fiscal year.

*[http://www.lib.umd.edu/ University of Maryland Libraries]
**The [http://www.lib.umd.edu/oa/openaccessfund UMD Open Access Publishing Fund] "improves access to research produced at the University of Maryland", launched in [http://www.lib.umd.edu/news/2014/10/open-access-fund 2013].
**Maximum award of $3,000, limited to one article annually.
**Publication in subscription based, hybrid, and delayed OA journals not supported by fund.
**Mandatory deposit in institutional repository, [http://drum.lib.umd.edu/ DRUM (Digital Repository at the University of Maryland)].

*[http://www.umass.edu/ University of Massachusetts, Amherst]
**The [http://www.library.umass.edu/services/writing-and-publication/soar-fund/ SOAR Fund] (acronym for "Supporting Open Access Research"), "supports open access publication of University of Massachusetts Amherst peer-reviewed scholarship", launched in [http://www.library.umass.edu/services/writing-and-publication/soar-fund/soar-fund-faqs/ 2014].
**Pilot fund of $25,000 available for the duration of the 2014 - 2015 fiscal year, with a funding limit of $3000 annually per-applicant.
**Publication in hybrid journals [http://www.library.umass.edu/services/writing-and-publication/soar-fund/soar-fund-faqs/ not eligible] for funding.
**Works deposited into institutional repository [http://scholarworks.umass.edu/ UMA Amherst ScholarWorks].

* [http://web.mit.edu/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)]
** The [http://info-libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/faculty-and-researchers/mit-faculty-open-access-policy/mit-open-access-publishing-fund/ fund] was [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/libraries-open-access-aid.html announced] June 11, 2010.
** Will [http://info-libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/faculty-and-researchers/mit-faculty-open-access-policy/mit-open-access-publishing-fund/#whatpublications only pay] fees at journals that "[1] Are peer reviewed; [2] Are listed in the [http://www.doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals]; [3] Adhere to the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association [http://www.oaspa.org/conduct.php Code of Conduct]; [4] Make their standard fee schedules publicly accessible; and [5] Waive their fees in cases of financial hardship."
** Will [http://info-libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/faculty-and-researchers/mit-faculty-open-access-policy/mit-open-access-publishing-fund/#whatpublications not pay fees] at hybrid OA journals or journals offering only delayed OA. Nor will it pay fees when the author's funding agency is willing to pay the fees instead.
** MIT is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** The funding is capped at "$1,000 per article."

* [http://www.mpg.de/portal/index.html Max Planck Society]
** See this undated [http://www.biomedcentral.com/download/info/MaxPlanckSociety.pdf description of the fund]. (When was it launched?)
** The fund will [http://oa.mpg.de/lang/en-uk/informationen-fur-autoren/kostenubernahme/ cover fees] for [http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/services/scip_content_oacontracts_de.htm certain journals and publishers] for MPS members.

* [http://www.mskcc.org/ Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center]
** The [http://libguides.mskcc.org/c.php?g=245186&p=1632385 Sloan Kettering Open Access Publication (SKOAP) Fund] was formally [http://library.mskcc.org/blog/2010/05/introducing-the-sloan-kettering-open-access-publication-skoap-fund/ launched] on May 10, 2010.
** MSKCC is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
**Limited to fully OA publications included in the [https://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)], and maintaining [http://oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)] membership or [http://oaspa.org/membership/membership-criteria/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) Code of Conduct] compliance with an available fee waiver policy and fee schedule.
** The fund will not pay publication fees of hybrid or delayed OA journals.
** Funding is available to "any researcher, clinician, staff member, or student author."
** Funding is capped at "$3,000 per article."

*[http://www.library.mun.ca/ Memorial University Libraries]
**The [http://guides.library.mun.ca/oafund Open Access Authors Fund] supports funding for "All Memorial faculty, undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, post-docs, emeriti, and honorary research profs who have had a peer-reviewed article accepted to an Open Access journal that meets the funding criteria.".
**Fund launched in [http://www.mun.ca/gazette/issues/vol45no3/open_access.php 2011].
**Applicant must be first author on funded publication, and funded publication must be published in a peer-reviewed journal included in the [https://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)] with no subscription cost, and supporting author copyright retention.
**Publication in subscription-based and hybrid journals are not eligible.
**Mandatory deposit in [http://research.library.mun.ca/ institutional repository].

* [http://www.msu.edu/ Michigan State University]
** An [http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2011/01/scholarly_journals_cost_library article] in the MSU newspaper (January 27, 2011) said that, "The library helps professors and other faculty members pay to publish in these [fee-based OA] journals...." If anyone can find direct info on an OA journal fund at MSU, please add it here.

* [http://www.umich.edu/ University of Michigan]
** The [http://www.lib.umich.edu/cope fund] was [http://www.oacompact.org/news/2010/9/16/university-of-michigan-joins-compact.html launched] on September 16, 2010, for a two-year period.
** The University of Michigan is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** The funds are available to "University of Michigan faculty, post-doctoral researchers, graduate and professional students, staff members, and students."
** Funding is capped at "$3000 per submission" for OA journals; hybrid and delayed-access journals are funded to a lesser degree. See details [http://www.lib.umich.edu/cope/faq#a9 here].
** As of March 1, 2012, all funds were allocated. As of June 2012 it has not been determined whether the program will continue.

* [http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.html/ University of Minnesota]
** The fund was established in Spring 2012.
** Funding is "available to UMN authors from all campuses, to cover the costs of making their publications available to the world."
** The fund is initially established at $20,000 per year, with potential for review.
** "Author fees for open access journals (as determined by listing in the [http://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals], membership in the [http://oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association], or adherence to [http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Code of Conduct]) will be covered in full. Author fees for “hybrid” journals will be covered up to 50%." More details can be found [https://www.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/open-access-publishing-fund/ here].

*[http://www.uni-muenster.de/en/ University of Münster]
**[http://www.uni-muenster.de/Publizieren/service/publikationsfonds/ Fund] available to University of Münster authors from 2011 to 2015.
**Fund launched with support from [http://www.dfg.de/en/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)].
**Funding limited to fully OA publications; funded publication must include fund acknowledgement.
**Fund supports 50% of publication costs; limited to a total fee of 2,000€. Submitting or corresponding author responsible for remaining publication fee coverage.

== N ==
*[https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/ National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)]
**Publication funding available to [https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/ National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)] funding recipients as a direct cost, outlined in the [http://external-test.nhmrc.gov.au/_files_nhmrc/file/grants/funding/funded/manage/policy/drc_principles%20guidelines_1%20january_2014_0.pdf NHMRC Direct Research Costs Guidelines] effective January 2014.
**Fund availability identified in the [https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants-funding/policy/nhmrc-open-access-policy NHMRC Open Access Policy].

*[http://www.nihr.ac.uk/ National Institute for Health Research]
**[http://www.nihr.ac.uk/policy-and-standards/nihr-policy-on-open-access-for-its-funded-research.htm Funds] available to "NIHR funded researchers" as of April 2014 in connection to larger [http://www.nihr.ac.uk/policy-and-standards/nihr-policy-on-open-access-for-its-funded-research.htm policy].
**Funding provided "either through the original NIHR award, or where applicable an NIHR Open Access Fund.".
**Limited to journals publishing under a CC-BY license and permitting "immediate deposit".

*[https://www.nih.gov/ National Institutes of Health (NIH)]
**[https://publicaccess.nih.gov/faq.htm#810 Funds] available in connection to [http://publicaccess.nih.gov/index.htm NIH Public Access Policy]; [https://publicaccess.nih.gov/faq.htm FAQ] includes "Publication costs, including author fees, may be charged to NIH grants and contracts".
**Connected [http://publicaccess.nih.gov/index.htm NIH Public Access Policy] effective in [http://publicaccess.nih.gov/determine-applicability.htm 2008].
**[https://publicaccess.nih.gov/faq.htm#810 Conditions] for funding include "(1) such costs incurred are actual, allowable, and reasonable to advance the objectives of the award; (2) costs are charged consistently regardless of the source of support; (3) all other applicable rules on allowability of costs are met.".
**Required [http://publicaccess.nih.gov/address-copyright.htm deposit] in PubMed Central within 12 months of publication.

* [http://www.nwo.nl/ Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek] (NWO) (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research)
** The [http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_82LC99_Eng fund] was [https://arl.org/lists/sparc-oaforum/Message/5368.html announced] on February 3, 2010.
** The fund pays both OA and hybrid journal fees and publication charges for OA book chapters.
** There is a "maximum budget of € 5000...per project".

* [http://www.uin.no/Pages/default.aspx/ Universitetet i Nordland]
** The [http://uin.no/english/library/open-access/guidelines-OA-fund/Pages/default.aspx fund] has allocated NOK 100,000 for 2013.
** The fund will cover the costs of publishing in peer-reviewed full (not hybrid) open access journals that meet the publication [http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/omdbh/index.action/ requirements of the Norwegian Database for Statistics on Higher Education (DBH)].
** Support will only be given for items deposited in the university's open records archive, [http://brage.bibsys.no/hibo/ BLIX].

* [http://www.unc.edu/ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill]
** The [http://guides.lib.unc.edu/content.php?pid=121319&sid=1262572 fund] was [http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Collections/ScholCom/OAFundAnnounce.cfm launched] in March 2005.
** The fund will pay publication fees of hybrid journals.
** Funding is capped at a maximum of $1000 per article.

*[http://library.uncc.edu/ University of North Carolina at Charlotte, J. Murrey Atkins Library]
**The [https://library.uncc.edu/node/13472#oaapsf Open Access Article Publication Subvention Fund (OAAPSF)] is "intended to assist [http://www.uncc.edu/ UNC Charlotte] faculty across campus with the cost of article processing charges (APCs)."
**Maximum award of $1,000 per-article.
**Publication in hybrid and predatory journals ineligible for funding.

*[http://www.uncg.edu/ University of North Carolina at Greensboro]
**The [http://uncg.libguides.com/c.php?g=83558&p=536536 Open Access Publishing Support Fund] supports "full-time faculty, a full-time EPA employee, or an enrolled graduate student[s]" at the [http://www.uncg.edu/ University of North Carolina at Greensboro].
**Maximum award limited to $1,000 per-article and one award per-author annually.
**Funding limited to publication in peer-reviewed journals.

* [http://www.niu.edu/index.shtml/ Northern Illinois University]
** The [http://www.ulib.niu.edu/FIND/OpenAccessPublishing.cfm/ fund] was [http://www.niutoday.info/2013/03/04/niu-libraries-launches-open-access-fund/ announced] in March 2013 "to advance the use of open access as a means of distributing the research and creative work of the Northern Illinois University community".
** The fund, currently being run as a pilot project funds NIU tenured, tenure-track and non-tenture-track faculty and graduate students covers OA publishing fees of up to $2000 per article, or per year.

* [http://www.northwestern.edu Northwestern University]
** The [http://libguides.northwestern.edu/oafund Open Access Fund] was launched in 2013 as a pilot program

** Awards up to $3000 per year to Northwestern community members for open access processing or publishing fees
** Can only be used for articles accepted for publication in peer-reviewed open access journals that either are listed in the [http://www.doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals] or are members of the [http://oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association].
** Supports gold open access publishers but not hybrid open access publishing
** Funded by the [http://www.library.northwestern.edu/ Northwestern University Library]

* [http://www.ntnu.edu/ Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)]
** The [http://www.ntnu.edu/documents/8354267/0/publishingfund.pdf NTNU Publishing fund] was established in 2013 and is administrated by the University Library.
** Maximum amount of NOK 20000 per author per year (incl Norwegian taxes).
** The fund supports articles with corresponding authors employed by or studying at NTNU.
** The fund does not support hybrid journals.
** Journals must be listed in DOAJ and must be accredited in the Norwegian funding system for Higher Education and Research institutions.

* [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ University of Nottingham]
** Information on the fund is available [http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/support.html here]. The fund was apparently launched before [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007/06/nottingham-creates-oa-publishing-fund.html June 2007].
** Also see Matt Cockerill's [http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10650750910931913 article] about it in ''OCLC Systems & Services'', vol. 25, no. 1 (2009).
** Also see the [http://www.biomedcentral.com/download/info/FinalNottinghamCaseStudy.pdf BMC case study] on the Nottingham fund (undated).
** The policy states that the OA fees charged by hybrid journals "''can be covered by the use of the University Open Access Publishing Fund''", and provides an email address to which enquiries to access the Fund should be directed.

== O ==

*[http://www.ou.edu/web.html/ University of Oklahoma, Norman Campus]
**[https://libraries.ou.edu/content/open-access-oa-subvention-fund-policy Open Access (OA) Subvention Fund]
***Available to "Any current University of Oklahoma-Norman regular faculty member, post-doctoral researcher, staff member or student author.".
***Maximum award of $1,500 annually.
***Limited to "peer reviewed articles in true open access journals" maintaining a "publicly available standard article fee schedule" and waiver policies; hybrid and delayed OA ineligible.
***Limited to journals shown in the [https://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)] and maintaining [http://oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)] membership or [http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) Code of Conduct] compliance.
***Required deposit in institutional repository, [https://shareok.org/ SHAREOK].
**[https://vpr-norman.ou.edu/funding/VPR-funding-opportunities/publication-support-program/ Norman Campus Office of the Vice President for Research Publication Support Program]
***Supports funding for hybrid and delayed OA publication; available to "regular tenured or tenure track faculty of all ranks, as well as research faculty.".
***Maximum award of $6,000.
***Required deposit in institutional repository, [https://shareok.org/ SHAREOK].

* [http://www.ontariogenomics.ca/ Ontario Genomics Institute]
** The [http://www.ontariogenomics.ca/research/ogi-genomics-publication-fund-gpf fund] was [http://pharmalive.com/News/index.cfm?articleid=705686&categoryid=54 announced] on May 19, 2010.
** The fund will pay no more than $3,000 CAD per article.
** The fund is limited to high-impact OA journals (impact factor of 8 or above, or named on a [http://www.ontariogenomics.ca/sites/default/files/GPF_Charter_0.pdf special OGI list]) and requires authors to submit the fund-supported work to a repository, too.
** Funds are awarded to primary or corresponding authors from Ontario-based institutions.
** Funding is set aside for 30 articles to be supported on a first-come, first-serve basis.

* [http://www.uoregon.edu/ University of Oregon]
** The [http://libweb.uoregon.edu/scis/sc/oaps.html fund] was launched on April 1, 2009 and is funded through the spring of 2012.
** Hybrid and delayed-access journals are not supported.
** Funding is capped at "$1,000 per article" and "$3,000 per person over the period of this pilot project."
** Funding is available to both "peer-reviewed scholarly article[s] or monograph[s]."

*[http://oregonstate.edu/ Oregon State University]
**[http://cdss.library.oregonstate.edu/oa_fund Fund] available to Oregon State University faculty acting as the publication's "sole or lead author".
**Fund announced [http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/new-open-access-publishing-fund February 2015].
**Maximum award of $2,000, limited to one award per author.
**Publication limited [http://oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)] [http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/ Code of Conduct] compliant journals; hybrid publications ineligible.
**Mandatory funding acknowledgement in publication, including deposit in institutional repository, [https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/ ScholarsArchive@OSU].
**Initial pilot funds have been allocated.

* [http://www.uio.no/english/ University of Oslo]
** Publication [http://www.ub.uio.no/om/aktuelt/aktuelle-saker/2013/publiseringsfond.html fund] was established in 2013. The fund is administered by the University Library.
** Publishing in hybrid journals is not supported.
** Journals must be listed in DOAJ.
** NOK 500.000 was allocated in 2013.

*[http://www.hioa.no/eng/ Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (HiOA)]
** Introduced an open access policy in September 2011, with an [https://oda.hio.no/jspui/ open digital archive (ODA)] with [http://www.hioa.no/eng/Learning-Centre-and-Library/Make-your-research-known/Cristin/Self-archiving-in-Cristin/ self-achiving options].
** HiOA has also [http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5770/ launched a publication fund] to cover APCs, starting in 2013 with a budget of NOK 300,000.

*[http://ostersjostiftelsen.se/in-english Östersjöstiftelsen (The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies)]
**Fund available in connection to Östersjöstiftelsen [http://ostersjostiftelsen.se/ansokan/open-access open access policy], enacted January 2011.
**Work funded by [http://ostersjostiftelsen.se/in-english Östersjöstiftelsen] automatically includes 30,000kr budget allotted to open publishing.

* [http://www.uottawa.ca/welcome.html University of Ottawa]
** The [http://www.oa.uottawa.ca/uo-initiatives-afund.jsp?language=en fund] was [https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/5286.html announced] on December 8, 2009.
** Ottawa is a member of the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE).
** Hybrid OA journals are supported only if the journals "make articles available immediately or allow open access self-archiving immediately upon publication (no embargo period imposed)."
** Funding is available to "all full-time and part-time faculty members, staff, currently registered graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and adjunct professors."
** Authors may apply for funds for a total of "two (2) publications per fiscal year."
** Funding is available for both book chapters and journal articles.
** Funded work must be deposited in the University of Ottawa's repository.

== P ==

*[http://www.parkinsons.org.uk/ Parkinson's UK]
**[http://www.parkinsons.org.uk/content/open-access-publishing-researchers Charity Open access Fund (COAF)] is "a partnership between medical research charities and is administered by the Wellcome Trust.", supporting compliance with the larger Parkinson's UK [https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/sites/default/files/open_access_policy_and_faqs_feb_2016.pdf OA Policy].
**Fund participation began in October 2015.
**Applicants must be located within network of identified UK institutions, and publications funded must be licensed under CC-BY.
**Funding limits undefined.

*[http://www.psu.edu/ Pennsylvania State University]
**The [https://libraries.psu.edu/services/research-data-services/scholarly-publishing-services/open-access-publishing/penn-state Penn State Libraries Open Access Fund] was announced in [http://copyright.psu.edu/2015/03/university-libraries-open-access-funding-pilot-project/ March 2015].
**Available to "any current Penn State faculty member, researcher, post-doc, graduate student, or staff member" and faculty-endorsed undergraduate students.
**Maximum award of $2,000, limited to one award per author annually.
**Publication in hybrid journals are ineligible for funding.
**Funded publication must include fund acknowledgement and be deposited in institutional repository, [https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/ ScholarSphere].

*[http://www.uni-marburg.de/index_html-en?language_sync=1 Philipps-Universität Marburg]
**[http://www.uni-marburg.de/bis/digitale_bibliothek/oa/pubfonds Fund] launched in January 2016 in connection to [http://www.dfg.de/en/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)].
**Funding available to Philipps-Universität Marburg "submitting / corresponding" authors.
**Maximum publication fee of 2,000€.
**Funds initially distributed at 50% of the total publication cost; remaining funds will cover up to 100% of the publication cost.
**Publication in hybrid journals ineligible for funding.

*[http://www.library.pitt.edu/ University of Pittsburgh, University Library System (ULS)]
**The [http://www.library.pitt.edu/about-open-access-author-fees-fund Open Access Author Fees Fund] is available to "faculty, staff, postdoctoral associates, and students served by the ULS and the BARCO Law Library." authors and co-authors.
**Fund operates in connection to [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE)] as of [http://www.oacompact.org/news/2012/10/23/university-of-pittsburgh-joins-cope.html October 2012].
**Limited to publication in fully OA journals included in the [https://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)] and maintain [http://oaspa.org/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)] membership or [http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) Code of Contact] compliance. Hybrid and delayed OA publications ineligible for funding.

* [www.plos.org PLOS]
** [http://www.plos.org/publications/publication-fees/open-access-funds/ PLOS Open Access Fund provides support for institutions and individuals
** Individual authors can be directly funded through PLOS, particularly in low- and middle- income countries as part of the [http://www.plos.org/newsroom/viewpoints/global-participation-initiative/ PLOS Global Participation Initiative]
** Institutions are offered either accounts, which will cover the full fees, or memberships, which will partially cover fees.

== Q ==

* [http://www.qut.edu.au/ Queensland University of Technology]
** The [http://libguides.library.qut.edu.au/content.php?pid=84068&sid=624559 fund] was launched in 2008 as an experiment limited to [http://www.plos.org/ PLoS] OA journals; it has since expanded its scope.
** The fund does not cover hybrid journals.
** See a February 2011 [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/39416/ article] about the QUT fund for more details.

== R ==

* [http://www.uni-regensburg.de/ University of Regensburg]
** The [http://oa.uni-regensburg.de/ fund] was [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MUPm7bm-4KMJ:oa.uni-regensburg.de/+%22eine+optimale+Transparenz+k%C3%B6nnen+Sie+jederzeit+eine+Liste+der+bewilligten%22&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com announced] in February 2011.
** The fund does not support hybrid journals.
** Funding is capped at a maximum of € 2000 per article.
** Funding is available to University of Regensburg researchers who are the submitting or corresponding author of a work.

* [http://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Home_page/1177315753906 Research Council of Norway]
**Funds announced in [http://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Newsarticle/A_boost_for_open_access_to_research/1253997204282 June 2016]; included in [http://www.forskningsradet.no/servlet/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobheader=application%2Fpdf&blobheadername1=Content-Disposition&blobheadervalue1=+attachment%3B+filename%3D%22ADM%C3%85pentilgangtilvitenskapeligpubliseringengCJSksCBE20140617.pdf%22&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1274505375901&ssbinary=true Principles for Open Access to Scientific Publications] revised in June 2013 outlining "In the period 2014–2019 the Research Council will implement a funding scheme to cover fees incurred by Norwegian research institutions for publication in open access journals.".
** Initial fund of [http://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Newsarticle/A_boost_for_open_access_to_research/1253997204282 8,000,000kr] (about USD 1,300,000) as of 2014.
** Fund supports a maximum of [http://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Newsarticle/A_boost_for_open_access_to_research/1253997204282 50%] of total costs associated with OA publication.
** Recommended publication in openly licensed journals included in the [https://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ] and rated "levels 1 or 2 in the registry of publication channels from the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions.", as shown in [http://www.forskningsradet.no/servlet/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobheader=application%2Fpdf&blobheadername1=Content-Disposition&blobheadervalue1=+attachment%3B+filename%3D%22ADM%C3%85pentilgangtilvitenskapeligpubliseringengCJSksCBE20140617.pdf%22&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1274505375901&ssbinary=true attached document].

* [http://ww2.uri.edu/ University of Rhode Island] (URI)
** The [http://uri.libguides.com/oafund URI Open Access Fund] helps cover the cost of open access publication fees for URI faculty who do not have other sources of funding.
** Created in December 2013 after URI signed the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE)
** Available for full-time faculty
** Only articles accepted to open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journals are eligible
** Journals must be listed in the [http://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals] and adhere to the [http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/ Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association's Code of Conduct]

* [http://www.rj.se/ Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ)] (Riksbank Tercentenary Foundation)
** The [http://www.rj.se/english/projects/open_access_guidelines fund] was [http://www.rj.se/svenska/1023/var/newsID/311 announced] on June 1, 2010.
** It will provide grantees with up to 30,000 SEK per project.
**Based on terms in effect for grant recipients awarded from [http://www.rj.se/en/For-researchers/Support-for-publication/Open-Access/OA-for-researchers-with-funding-from-2013/ 2013] forward, publication funds are provided to all Riksbankens Jubileimsfond (RJ) project grant recipients.
***Grants "up to three years' duration that fund positions corresponding to up to 75% of full-time employment" are awarded 50,000kr. Funding varied for "larger projects".
***Programs instead "must be included in the programme budget applied for.", and are not awarded on an included basis.
***Maximum embargo period of 6 months, with mandatory deposit upon publication "If the researcher opts for parallel publishing", with encouraged deposit from publication in Open Access journals.

* [https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/home.aspx Royal Holloway, University of London]
** The [https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/library/documents/policies/rhulapcpolicy.pdf Open Access Fund] for article processing charges (APCs)
** Courtesy of a [http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/121108/ RCUK block grant]
** Provides £81,627 in total for 2013-2014, rising to £96,031 for 2014-2015
** Pays APCs for journals that provides immediate and unrestricted access to articles via their own website with CC-BY licenses.

*[http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ Ruhr-Universität Bochum]
**Fund available to [http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ Ruhr-Universität Bochum] submitting or corresponding authors, launched in 2014 with support from [http://www.dfg.de/en/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)] from 2014 - 2015.
**Maximum award supports 10% total publication costs per author / per author annually. As of 2016, author contribution must support 20% of article processing charges.
**Limited to publication in full OA journals maintaining a maximum fee of 2,000€. "Open Choice" publications are ineligible for funding.

*[http://library.ryerson.ca/ Ryerson University Library & Archives]
**The [http://learn.library.ryerson.ca/scholcomm/openaccessfund Ryerson Library Author Fund] is "open to graduate students, faculty, staff, adjunct faculty, and postdoctoral researchers at Ryerson University." who "must exhaust other funding sources (e.g. grants) to pay for open access charges before applying.".
**Funding limited to publication in journals operating under "Biomed Central*, The Public Library of Science, and Hindawi.".
**Publication in hybrid journals ineligible for funding.
**Mandatory deposit in institutional repository, [http://digital.library.ryerson.ca/node/1 RULA].

== S ==

*[http://www.salford.ac.uk/ University of Salford]
**The [http://www.salford.ac.uk/library/research/openaccess/open-access-funding Open Access Support Fund] is available to "staff and postgraduate research students.".
**Fund referenced as early as [http://blogs.salford.ac.uk/research-support/open-access-support-scheme/ September 2013].

*[http://www.uni-salzburg.at/index.php?id=52&L=1 Universität Salzburg]
**The [http://www.uni-salzburg.at/index.php?id=67089&L=1 University of Salzburg Open Access Publication Fund] is available to University of Saltzburg employees acting as corresponding author on an accepted publication.
**Fund launched in [http://www.uni-salzburg.at/index.php?id=65751&L=1 2014].
**Maximum award of 2,000€.
**Limited to publication in journals shown in the [https://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)]; hybrid publication ineligible for funding.
**Funded publication limited to Creative Commons license.

*[http://www.usask.ca/ University of Saskatchewan]
**The [http://research.usask.ca/documents/PubFund%20TOR%20guidelines%20-%20Mar%202015.pdf Research Services Publication Fund] is available to University of Saskachewan "tenured or tenure track" faculty, university librarians and term faculty.
**Fund activity shown prior to [http://www.usask.ca/lists/science_engineering-l/2009/msg00118.html 2009].
**Maximum award of $1,000 ($1,500 when funding available).
**Funding limited to "one application per applicant per fiscal year" and "one scholarly and creative work can be requested for support per fiscal year".

*[http://www.sfi.ie/ Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)]
**Funding available in connection to the [http://www.sfi.ie/funding/grant-policies/open-access-availability-of-published-research-policy.html SFI Open Access Availability of Publishing Research Policy], effective February 2009.
**Costs associated with "publishing or depositing in an Open Access repository are allowable as an Eligible Cost under SFI Awards and should be charged against the Miscellaneous budget line.".
**Connected [http://www.sfi.ie/assets/files/downloads/Funding/grant_policies/open%20access%20dec%2010.pdf policy] mandates deposit of funded publications, with preference to institutional and disciplinary repositories.

* [http://www.sfu.ca/ Simon Fraser University (SFU)]
** The [http://www.lib.sfu.ca/collections/scholarly-publishing/sfu-open-access-fund fund] was [http://www.lib.sfu.ca/node/10281 announced] in February 2010.
** SFU "faculty, staff or graduate students" may apply for funding.
** The fund wll not pay publication fees of hybrid OA journals.
** Authors may ask for up to $10,000 per year.
** Simon Fraser joined the [http://www.oacompact.org/ Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity] (COPE) on [http://www.sfu.ca/vpresearch/news/compact-open-access.html October 21, 2010].

*[http://www.tuc.no/ University College of Southeast Norway (formerly Telemark University College)]
**[http://www.hit.no/Forskning/Publisere/Publiseringsfondet-ved-Hoegskolen-i-Telemark Fund] available to Telemark University College affiliated corresponding authors.
**Supports publication in both fully open and hybrid publication maintaining a [https://dbh.nsd.uib.no/publiseringskanaler/Forside DBH] level 1 or 2, as stated in fund [http://www.hit.no/nor/content/download/158749/1686889/file/Publiseringsfond_retningslinjer.pdf guidelines].
**Fund suggested in [http://www.hit.no/nor/content/download/88369/941958/file/Saksforelegg.pdf section 4.4.4.] for 2010 launch.
**Mandatory deposit in [http://www.cristin.no/english/ Cristin] repository.

*[http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/home/ Universität Stuttgart]
**Fund launched in 2011 in connection to [http://www.dfg.de/en/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft].
**Funding limited to Universität Stuttgart members acting as author for the funded publication in OA journals.
**Maximum award of 2,000€.

*[http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ University of St Andrews]
**Supports access to the following funds:
***[http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/ RCUK] Block Grant
****Awarded from 2013 - 2014 in connection to [http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/openaccess/ RCRK Policy on Open Access].
****Publication in policy compliant journal must include funding acknowledgement and access guidelines.
***[https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/managing-grant/charity-open-access-fund Charity Open Access Fund (COAF)]
****Available to "Researchers funded by Arthritis Research UK, Breast Cancer Campaign, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK and Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research".
****Fund launched in October 2014.
****Publication must be licensed CC-BY.
***[http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/ St Andrews University Library]
****Available to St Andrews University staff, launched in [http://univstandrews-oaresearch.blogspot.com/2014/10/library-fund-for-open-access-and.html August 2013].
****Publication in hybrid journals ineligible for funding.

*[http://www.sun.ac.za/english Stellenbosch University]
**The [http://library.sun.ac.za/English/services/oa/Pages/su-oafund.aspx Stellenbosch University Open Access Publication Fund] is available to "Stellenbosch University faculty members or currently enrolled students".
**Fund policy approved in [http://library.sun.ac.za/SiteCollectionDocuments/services/Open%20Access%20Fund%20Policy%20and%20Procedures_Final%20Draft_Eng.pdf May 2012].
**Funding limits varied annually.

* [http://www.swansea.ac.uk/ Swansea University (Prifysgol Abertawe)]
** The [http://www.swansea.ac.uk/iss/researchsupport/apc/#d.en.173057 fund] helps cover the cost of Article Processing Chargers (APCs) for articles funded by the Research Council of the United Kingdom [http://www.swansea.ac.uk/iss/researchsupport/apc/#d.en.173057 (RCUK)]
** Only supports gold open access, meaning the article needs to be immediately available, at no cost to readers with unlimited non-commercial re-use.

*[http://www.formas.se/en/ Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning]
**Publication funding available to grant applicants, and "can be included in research project applications as a direct cost" as outlined in [http://www.formas.se/en/Financing/General-instructions/ applicant instructions] updated April 2016.
**Authors of funded applications "must guarantee that their research results will be available through Open Access within six months of publication.".

*[http://forte.se/en/ Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (FORTE)]
**As expressed in connected [http://forte.se/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/fortes-policy-for-open-access.pdf policy], [http://forte.se/en/ Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (FORTE)] grant recipients receive a flat rate of 30,000kr dedicated to OA publication, effective as of January 2012.
**Open publication limited to a "högst sex månaders fördröjning", or (English Translation: Google) a "maximum of six months' delay", as outlined in [http://forte.se/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/fortes-policy-for-open-access.pdf policy].

*[http://www.snf.ch/en/Pages/default.aspx Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)]
**[http://www.snf.ch/SiteCollectionDocuments/Dossiers/dos_OA_regelung_auf_einen_blick_e.pdf Funds] "can be claimed from the agreed project funding up to a limit of CHF 3000 per publication." in connection to [http://www.snf.ch/en/Pages/default.aspx Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)] funded grants as outlined in [http://www.snf.ch/SiteCollectionDocuments/Dossiers/dos_OA_regelung_auf_einen_blick_e.pdf SNSF Guidelines on Open Access].
**Publication funds available as of October 2013 with scheduled activity through December 2016.
**Hybrid publication ineligible for funding.

== T ==

*[https://tu-dresden.de/ Technische Universität Dresden]
**[http://www.slub-dresden.de/service/schreiben-publizieren/open-access-service/publikationsfonds/ Fund] available to Technische Universität Dresden authors acting as submitting or corresponding author.
**Fund launched in 2013 in coordination with [http://www.dfg.de/en/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)].
**Limited to fully OA publications included in the [https://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)] with a maximum fee of 2,000€.

*[http://www.tum.de/ Technische Universität München]
**The [https://www.ub.tum.de/en/publishing-fund TUM Open Access Publishing Fund] operates in connection to [http://www.dfg.de/en/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)], available to Technische Universität München affiliated authors.
**Fund announced in [https://www.ub.tum.de/en/tum-covers-your-open-access-publication-costs 2013].
**Supports free publication in identified [https://scoap3.org/ SCOAP3] journals in addition to discounted publication costs through additional publishers.
**Maximum APC of "2,000 € or 2,270 USD".
**Publication "should contain a reference to the DFG-funding".

* [http://www.utk.edu/ University of Tennessee, Knoxville]
** The [http://www.lib.utk.edu/openpub/ Open Publishing Support Fund] was [http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=54646 launched] in the fall of 2008.
** Funding is available to any "faculty member, post-doctoral associate, or currently enrolled graduate student ready to submit a completed article for publication."
** Articles published by "peer-reviewed open access publishers" are supported; "Any open access publication will be considered, provided that the journal is freely available at the time of initial publication with no embargo periods. Hybrid journals that make only selected articles open access are not included in the pilot project."
** Applicants receive funding on a "first-come, first-served basis to a maximum of $3,000 per article."

* [http://www.tamu.edu/ Texas A&M University]
**[http://wclnew.library.tamu.edu/services/scholarly_communication/oakfund.html Open Access to Knowledge Fund (OAKFund)] is available to support OA publication costs and institutional [https://peerj.com/ PeerJ] membership for "current members of the faculty or full-time research staff at Texas A&M University". Current funds have been [http://library.tamu.edu/services/scholarly_communication/oakfund.html allotted], with possible renewal.
** The fund (or equivalent) is mentioned in this June 2007 [http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/summary_of_biomed_central_s conference report].
**Maximum award of $3,000. Awarded sum is divided "evenly between all eligible authors" for multi-author funded works.
**Publication in hybrid or delayed access journals are ineligible for funding.
**Encouraged deposit in institutional repository, [http://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/ OAKTrust].

*[http://www.twu.edu/ Texas Woman's University]
**The [http://www.twu.edu/library/oafund.asp fund] "provides scholarly funding to TWU full-time faculty members who wish to publish their work in peer-reviewed, Open Access journals".
**Pilot launched in 2015 for duration of the 2015 - 2016 academic year.
**Supports a maximum award of $3000 per individual or group.

* [http://www.utoronto.ca/ University of Toronto]
** The [http://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/open-access-author-fund-policies fund] was announced in October 2012.
** Peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters or monographs accepted for publication after June 1, 2012 are eligible.
** Funding is available to "all full-time and part-time faculty members and librarians, staff, currently registered graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows".
** The fund will pay up to a maximum amount of CAD 3,000 per fiscal year per corresponding author, on a "first come, first served" basis.
** The fund will not pay publication fees at hybrid OA journals.
** Requests for funds may be refused if the publisher appears to be a "predatory open access publisher".

* [http://en.uit.no/startsida UiT The Arctic University of Norway (formerly The University of Tromsø)]
** The [http://www2.uit.no/ikbViewer/Content/225285/Retningslinjer_2011-02-15.doc fund] was [http://www2.uit.no/ikbViewer/page/ansatte/organisasjon/artikkel?p_document_id=225287&p_dimension_id=&p_menu=&p_lang= announced] February 18, 2011. [http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/4908 Article] about the fund and its rules. See also [http://uit.no/ub/publisering/art?p_document_id=225287&p_lang=2 information page]Ì
** The fund supports APCs in OA journals (not hybrid journals) for '''corresponding''' authors employed by or studying at the University of Tromsø, full- or part-time. [https://peerj.com/ PeerJ] membership is also supported.
** There is no financial limit per article or per author, nor a limit to the number of articles per author per year.
** Journals must be listed in DOAJ (or eligible for such listing) and must be [http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/ accredited] in the Norwegian funding system for Higher Education and Research institutions.
** 2014 budget is NOK 1,300,000 (roughly USD 210,000).

*[http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/ University of Tübingen]
**[http://www.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/forschen-publizieren/open-access-publikationsfonds.html Fund] available to University of Tübingen authors acting as corresponding or submitting author.
**Fund launched in [http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/einrichtungen/universitaetsbibliothek/forschen-publizieren/open-access-policy-der-universitaet-tuebingen.html 2013], operating in connection to [http://www.dfg.de/en/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)].
**Limited to publication in full OA journals with a maximum fee of 2,000€, funding 70% of costs limited to three publications per-author annually as of 2015.
**Funder acknowledgement encouraged.

* [http://www.tufts.edu/ Tufts University]
** The [http://sites.tufts.edu/scholarlycommunication/?page_id=340 Provost's Open Access Fund] was [http://uit.tufts.edu/?pid=738 launched] in January of 2011.
** It supports both publication in open access journals and the digitization of small research collections for open access.

*[https://www.utwente.nl/en/ University of Twente]
**[https://www.utwente.nl/ub/en/services/MAIN/research-datamanagement/rdm/opensciencefund/ Fund] available to [https://www.utwente.nl/en/ University of Twente] employees acting as first or co-author for funded publication.
**Publication limited to journals included in the [https://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)]; hybrid publication ineligible for funding.
**Limited to one award per-applicant annually; fund must function as only "received or requested" funding for publication.
**Maximum award of 2,500€.

== U ==

*[http://www.uib.no/en/ University of Bergen]
** The fund was launched in 2013.
** The University "currently has a "Supporter Membership" with BioMed Central. This means that the university pays a fixed amount per year, providing all UiB employees with a 15% discount on publication in BioMed Central's journals, Chemistry Central and Springer Open journals". (See [http://www.uib.no/ub/tjenester/vitenskapelig-publisering/open-access/ full policy])

* [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ University College London (UCL)]
**[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-access/faqs/#funds Funds] available to [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ University College London (UCL)] staff and students acting as corresponding author, in addition to funds supported by [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-access/rcuk Research Councils UK (RCUK)] and [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-access/wellcome COAF].
**Required deposit in University College London (UCL) [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/library/publications/rps Research Publications Database (RPS)] and [http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/ UCL Discovery], as outlined in connected [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-access/basics policy].

* [http://www.uni-ulm.de/ University of Ulm]
** The [http://www.uni-ulm.de/index.php?id=1358 fund] was announced in 2009 for non-medical publications.
** In 2013 an additional fund for medical publications was announced.
** Funding is available to submitting or corresponding authors from University of Ulm.
** The funds reimburse two-thirds of the publication fees, the author has to pay one third.
** The funds support hybrid journals.

*[https://library.usu.edu/ Utah State University Libraries]
**[http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/oadc/6/ Fund] available for Utah State University students and faculty, announced in 2013.
**Maximum award of $1,500 per-article, limited to one award per-author annually.
**Publication in hybrid journals not eligible for funding, and fund applicants "must request a match from their department, college, or an outside granting agency".
**Mandatory deposit in institutional repository, [http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/ DigitalCommons@USU].

* [http://www.uu.nl/en/Pages/default.aspx Utrecht University]
** The [http://www.uu.nl/university/library/EN/igitur/oa-fund/Pages/default.aspx Utrecht University Open Access Fund] helps cover the cost of author fees for academics at Utrecht University who do not have external funding
** Articles must be published in journals that are fully open access. Hybrid journals are not eligible.
** Grants for book publications are also available
** All publications must be made available at [http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/search/search.php?m=simple&language=en&p=1 Igitur Archive], Utrecht University's repository

== V ==
*[http://www.vr.se/inenglish.4.12fff4451215cbd83e4800015152.html Vetenskapsrådet] (The Swedish Research Council)
**Funding available in connection to [http://www.vr.se/inenglish/researchfunding/applyforgrants/conditionsforapplicationsandgrants/openaccess.106.5adac704126af4b4be280007766.html grant conditions] relating to open access first established in [http://www.vr.se/inenglish/researchfunding/applyforgrants/conditionsforapplicationsandgrants/openaccess/faqopenaccess/faqopenaccess/whendidtheswedishresearchcouncilsdecisiononopenaccesstakeeffect.5.37eca2ee12a87a8202180001835.html January 2010], and mandating open publication effective 2015 and under a CC-BY license effective 2017.
**Publication funds [http://www.vr.se/inenglish/researchfunding/applyforgrants/conditionsforapplicationsandgrants/openaccess/faqopenaccess/faqopenaccess/howcanresearchersaffordtopaythefeesinvolvedinparallelpublicationorpublicationinopenaccessjournals.5.37eca2ee12a87a8202180001961.html available] for inclusion in initial grant applications.

* [http://www.univie.ac.at/en University of Vienna]
** The [http://openaccess.univie.ac.at/en/funding/central-publishing-fund/application-form/ Central Open Access Publishing Fund] was launched on July 16, 2014. It is run by the Open Access Office, Library and Archive Services of the University of Vienna.
** Funding is available for articles in genuine open access journals: DOAJ-listed, no hybrid journals.
** Articles that are published as outcomes of primarily externally funded research projects will not be funded.
** „First come, first served policy“; up to three publications per year and author.
** The maximum publication fee expected is EUR 2,000 per item. Higher costs can be covered in individual cases.
** The submitting author/corresponding author must be affiliated to the University of Vienna.
** A refund of already paid bills for APCs is not possible.

* [http://www.vcu.edu/ Virginia Commonwealth University]
** The [https://www.library.vcu.edu/services/writing/oa-fund/ VCU Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund] is open to faculty, postdocs, graduate and professional students.
** Funding is capped at $3,000 per author and $2,000 per article within a fiscal year.
** The fund does not cover articles in hybrid journals.

* [http://www.vt.edu Virginia Tech] (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
** The [http://www.lib.vt.edu/openaccess/fund/index.html subvention fund] was [http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2012/09/092812-univlib-openaccessfund.html launched] September 28, 2012.
** Funds are available for OA and hybrid journals.
** Fund is run by the University Libraries at Virginia Tech.
** Funding is available to "faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students".
** Funding is capped at a maximum of "$1500 per article and $3000 per author per year".

*[http://www.virginia.edu/ University of Virginia]
** "The [http://copyright.library.virginia.edu/uva-library-open-access-fund/ Open Access Fund] is intended to support U.Va. authors who wish to publish their research in an open access journals".
** All faculty, staff and students served by the U.Va. Library system are eligible for funding.
** Funding is limited to up to $2000 per article, with a maximum of $3000 per year.
** All successful funding applicants will must deposit a copy of their articles in [http://libra.virginia.edu/ Libra], U.Va.’s institutional repository.

== W ==

* [http://www.wur.nl/ Wageningen University and Research Center]
** The [http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Expertise-Services/Facilities/Library/Expertises/Write-cite/What-funds-and-arrangements-are-available-for-open-access.htm fund] was launched in 2006.
** The [http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/nieuws?nieuws/@isn=1332&wq_sfx=nieuwsbrief#UK renewed conditions] were published in 2011.
** Funding covers a "maximum of 50% of the costs of an open access publication".
** Funding is provided "in proportion to the Wageningen UR contribution".

* [http://zsr.wfu.edu/ Wake Forest University], Z. Smith Reynolds Library
** The [http://zsr.wfu.edu/forms/open-access-fund fund] was launched in 2008.
** Funding is "provided in equal sum from three sources: the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, the Office of Research & Sponsored Programs, and the author’s department".
** Wake Forest faculty are eligible for funding.
** Both OA and hybrid journal articles and monograph chapters are funded.
** Funded work must be deposited to the university's repository.

*[https://wayne.edu/ Wayne State University]
**[http://scholarscooperative.wayne.edu/oafund/ Open Access Fund] "available to current full-time Wayne State University Faculty".
**Funds currently allocated; applications on-hold.
**Fund announcement described as "recent" in [https://library.wayne.edu/blog/blog/2016/03/02/faculty-want-to-make-your-work-open-access-apply-for-funding-from-the-libraries/ March 2016].
**Maximum award of $1,000, limited to "One award per author per funding year.".
**Limited to "members of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA, http://oaspa.org/), or meet the membership requirements of OASPA, as delineated under OASPA’s Membership Criteria (http://oaspa.org/membership/membership-criteria/) and Code of Conduct (http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/).", with no embargo period.
**Mandatory deposit in institutional repository, [http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/ DigitalCommons@WayneState].

*[https://wellcome.ac.uk/ Wellcome Trust]
**[https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/managing-grant/how-get-open-access-funding Funding] available to [https://wellcome.ac.uk/ Wellcome Trust] supported researchers.
**[https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/managing-grant/charity-open-access-fund Charity Open Access Fund (COAF)] available to [https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/managing-grant/coaf-funded-research-organisations 36] higher education institutions as of October 2014. [https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/managing-grant/coaf-information-researchers Required] PubMed Central deposit and CC-BY license.
**Funding available to researchers [https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/managing-grant/how-get-open-access-funding unaffiliated] with [https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/managing-grant/charity-open-access-fund Charity Open Access Fund (COAF)] institutions by contacting [https://wellcome.ac.uk/ Wellcome Trust] directly for support.

* [http://www.wisc.edu/ University of Wisconsin]
** The [http://www.library.wisc.edu/scp/openaccess/ fund] was launched by August 2007.
** The fund will pay publication fees of hybrid OA journals, but has a cap on the maximum to be paid of 30% of fee.
** The fund will pay 50% of the publication charges for full OA journals.
** On a per-article basis, funding "will not exceed $1,500" per year per author.

*[http://www.worcester.ac.uk/ University of Worcester]
**[http://library.worc.ac.uk/services/open-access-publishing Fund] available to University of Worcester staff and research students.
**Support for fund included in [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2wGAyiHm0nAc1dUN0g2eXVsbGs/view University of Worcester Open Access Publishing Policy], published March 2014.

*[http://www.who.int/en/ World Health Organization]
**Funding availability identified in [http://www.who.int/en/ World Health Organization] OA [http://www.who.int/about/policy/en/ policy], including, "WHO will include the costs of open-access charges, where appropriate, in its applications to donors who support WHO’s work. It will also invite external entities applying for project support from WHO to include such costs, where appropriate, in their applications.".
**Connected [http://www.who.int/about/policy/en/ policy] effective July 2014, mandating OA publication under "Creative Commons 3.0 intergovernmental organization (IGO)" license or author deposit into [https://europepmc.org/ Europe PMC].

*[https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/new/ Universität Würzburg]
**[http://openaccess.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/service0/electronic_publishing/open_access/open_access_journals/ Fund] available to Universität Würzburg authors acting as corresponding author.
**Fund launched in 2011, operating in connection to [http://www.dfg.de/en/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)] from 2011 to 2016.
**Funded publication must be licensed under CC-BY and include fund acknowledgement.
**Fund available to cover up to 60% of publication costs; applications limited to fees up to 2,000€.
**Funded publications included in [https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/opus4-wuerzburg/home OPUS Würzburg].

==Y==
*[http://www.library.yorku.ca/web/ York University Libraries]
**The [http://researchguides.library.yorku.ca/open_access/ York University Libraries OA Author Fund] is available for "All York, faculty, graduate students, staff, post-docs, emeriti, and visiting scholars who have had a peer-reviewed article accepted to an Open Access journal that meets the funding criteria.".
**Funding limited to one publication per applicant annually, and funded publication must have a York University affiliated first author.
**Publication in subscription-based and hybrid journals including journals that maintain "embargoes that limit Open Access to content for a specific time period after publication, if it is longer than the publication timeline required by the funding source." are not eligible for funding.
**Mandatory deposit in institutional repository, [http://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/ YorkSpace].

==Z==
*[http://www.uzh.ch/index_en.html University of Zurich], Main Library
** In 2012 an [http://www.oai.uzh.ch/en/at-the-uzh/funding/publishing-fund open fund] was launched as a pilot program to support open access publications from the social sciences and humanities.
** The open fund does not cover publications in hybrid journals.
** Funding is capped at a maximum of 2,000 CHF per author per year.

Publishers of OA books

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* This is a list of publishers of OA books.
** As of May 16, 2016, there are 151 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.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://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 licence for its contents.

* [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]. 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. Under this program, all titles produced in connection to the [http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/humanities-open-book-program Humanities Open Book Program] must be published under a Creative Commons license and accessible in ePub format.

*[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.library.unt.edu/eagle-editions Eagle Editions]
** 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.

*[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.

*[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]).

== 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.

== 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)]
**In partnership with [http://project.oapen.org/ OAPEN] under [http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/ OAPEN-UK], [http://global.oup.com/ Oxford University Press] began publishing open monographs for a trial period from [http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/oxford-open/books.html September 2013 through September 2014]. Titles produced in this partnership are released in PDF format under [http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/oxford-open/books.html CC-BY-NC-ND], with print available for purchase. [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/open/ Palgrave Open]
** An offshoot of the academic publisher [http://www.palgrave.com/ Palgrave MacMillan], Palgrave Open gives authors the option to publish OA journal articles, [http://www.palgrave.com/pivot/ Palgrave Pivot] publications (mid-form research), and monographs. 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].

* [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.

* [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.

* [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, 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.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]
** The [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] have teamed up to produce [http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/publishing/heidelberg-studies-in-transculturality-an-open-access-book-series.html Heidelberg Studies in Transculturality], 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://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.".

==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.

Publishers of OA books

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* This is a list of publishers of OA books.
** As of May 16, 2016, there are 151 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.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://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 licence for its contents.

* [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]. 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. Under this program, all titles produced in connection to the [http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/humanities-open-book-program Humanities Open Book Program] must be published under a Creative Commons license and accessible in ePub format.

*[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.library.unt.edu/eagle-editions Eagle Editions]
** 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.

*[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.

*[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]).

== 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.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.

== 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)]
**In partnership with [http://project.oapen.org/ OAPEN] under [http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/ OAPEN-UK], [http://global.oup.com/ Oxford University Press] began publishing open monographs for a trial period from [http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/oxford-open/books.html September 2013 through September 2014]. Titles produced in this partnership are released in PDF format under [http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/oxford-open/books.html CC-BY-NC-ND], with print available for purchase. [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/open/ Palgrave Open]
** An offshoot of the academic publisher [http://www.palgrave.com/ Palgrave MacMillan], Palgrave Open gives authors the option to publish OA journal articles, [http://www.palgrave.com/pivot/ Palgrave Pivot] publications (mid-form research), and monographs. 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].

* [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.

* [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.

* [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, 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.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]
** The [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] have teamed up to produce [http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/publishing/heidelberg-studies-in-transculturality-an-open-access-book-series.html Heidelberg Studies in Transculturality], 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://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.".

==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.

Publishers of OA books

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* This is a list of publishers of OA books.
** As of May 16, 2016, there are 151 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.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://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 licence for its contents.

* [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]. 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. Under this program, all titles produced in connection to the [http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/humanities-open-book-program Humanities Open Book Program] must be published under a Creative Commons license and accessible in ePub format.

*[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.library.unt.edu/eagle-editions Eagle Editions]
** 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.

*[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.

*[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]).

== 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.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.

== 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)]
**In partnership with [http://project.oapen.org/ OAPEN] under [http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/ OAPEN-UK], [http://global.oup.com/ Oxford University Press] began publishing open monographs for a trial period from [http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/oxford-open/books.html September 2013 through September 2014]. Titles produced in this partnership are released in PDF format under [http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/oxford-open/books.html CC-BY-NC-ND], with print available for purchase. [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/open/ Palgrave Open]
** An offshoot of the academic publisher [http://www.palgrave.com/ Palgrave MacMillan], Palgrave Open gives authors the option to publish OA journal articles, [http://www.palgrave.com/pivot/ Palgrave Pivot] publications (mid-form research), and monographs. 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].

* [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.

* [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.

* [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].
** 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, 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.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]
** The [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] have teamed up to produce [http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/publishing/heidelberg-studies-in-transculturality-an-open-access-book-series.html Heidelberg Studies in Transculturality], 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://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.".

==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.