Open Access Book Publishing 2020-2024


This report explains the origins of the open access movement, gives a timeline for its development, but most importantly, Simba Information quantifies open access book publishing as a market segment. Simba used the information it gathered through primary and secondary research to develop a financial outlook for open access book publishing with market projections through 2024. This research was conducted in conjunction with a larger study of the overall market for scholarly and professional publishing.
Open Access Book Publishing 2020-2024 contains separate chapters covering the market, notable publishers and programs, and issues and forecast that include:
- Simba’s exclusive analysis of market size and structure
- Title growth metrics
- Open access book publishing by discipline
- A look at key geographic markets that are pushing the development of open access books
- Simba’s exclusive market projections to 2024 and more.
Examples of some of the issues discussed include:
- The continued evolution of open access
- The impact of open access in social science and humanities vs. scientific, technical and medical
- Prevailing business models and experiments
- Open access mandates spread to books
- Opportunity for monographs and conference proceedings
- Emerging markets fertile ground for open access.
Simba has a knowledge base from more than 20 years worth of perspective on these markets and the rapid changes in technology, the economy, mergers, partnerships and public policy that affect it.
- Methodology
- Definition of Open Access Book Publishing
- Scope of the Report
- Sources of Information
- Methodology for Projecting/Estimating Results
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- What is Open Access Publishing?
- Key Facts & Trends
- OA Books Decline for First Time to $45 million in 2019
- OA Books Continue to Experiment with Business Models
- Most OA Publishers Are European SSH Presses
- The Large STM Commercial Publishers Will Be Slow Join the Party
- Funder Mandates Give STM OA Books a Lift
- Social Sciences & Humanities OA Will Go Down a Separate Path
- Open Access Book Market
- Introduction
- Market Size
- Revenue
- Table Open Access Book Market Revenue, 2015-2019
- What is an OA Book Worth?
- Table Mean BPC Charges for Select Open Access Publishers, 2017-2020
- OA Metrics
- Table Directory of Open Access Books Metrics, 2015-2019
- OA Funding & Mandates
- OA Books by Discipline
- Book Type
- OA Books by Geography and Language
- Revenue
- Notable Open Access Book Publishers & Programs
- Introduction
- Leading Open Access Publishers
- Social Science and Humanities Presses Dominate the DOAB
- Table Leading OA Book Publishers Ranked by Number of Titles, 2020
- Leading OA Book Publishers by Revenue
- Table Leading OA Book Publishers' Revenue1, 2017-2019
- Notable OA Publisher Profiles
- Table Publishers Ranked by Titles Added to DOAB in 2019
- IntechOpen
- De Gruyter
- Table Publishers Ranked by Titles Added to DOAB in 2018
- Frontiers
- Bookboon.com
- MDPI
- KIT Scientific Publishing
- Peter Lang International
- Springer Nature
- Table Publishers Ranked by Titles Added to DOAB YTD 2020
- Presses universitaires de Rennes (PUR)
- Table Publishers Ranked by Titles Added to DOAB in 2017
- Taylor & Francis
- transcript Verlag
- Australian National University Press (ANU Press)
- Coimbra University Press
- Brill
- Amsterdam University Press (WRR in Dutch)
- Cooperative OA Book Programs and Trials
- Google Books
- HathiTrust Digital Library
- Knowledge Unlatched
- MUSE Open
- Table Cooperative OA Book Programs, 2018
- Project Gutenberg
- SciELO Books
- Open Access Book Trends & Forecast
- Introduction
- Current Trends in Open Access Book Publishing
- Viability of Open Access Books Remains Uncertain
- Social Science & Humanities Books Will Largely Go Down a Separate Path
- Springer Nature Will Play a Large Role in OA Books
- Mandates Spread to Books
- Open Access Is Not Done Evolving
- Print Book Sales Are Falling, Only Part Replaced by E-Books
- OA Books Bring Gains, But Also Complications like Double Dipping
- OA Books Build on a Culture of Cooperation
- Emerging Markets Fertile Ground for OA Books
- Monographs and Conference Proceedings Are Up for Grabs
- Open Access Book Publishing Market Forecast
- Introduction
- Table Open Access Book Market Revenue, 2020P-2024P
- Open Access Books Forecast
- Table Directory of Open Access Book Forecast, 2020P-2024P
- Assumptions
- Forecasters Optimistic Global Economy Will Recover in 2021
- Table World GDP Projected Growth by Region, 2020-2024
- Revenue Forecast of Top 5 OA Book Publishers
- Table Leading Open Book Publishers Forecast, 2019-2020P
- Introduction
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