Open Access Book Publishing
Published: November 2, 2016
- 170 Pages
Table of Contents
- Methodology
- Definition of Open Access Book Publishing
- Scope of the Report
- Sources of Information
- Methodology for Estimating/Projecting Results
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- What is Open Access Publishing?
- Key Facts & Trends
- Nearly 10,000 Scholarly & Academic OA Books Are Available on the Internet
- OA Books Grow 30% a Year, Account for About $21M in 2015 Revenue
- OA Books Continue to Experiment with Business Models
- Most OA publishers Are European SSH presses
- The Large Commercial Publishers Will Join the Party
- Funder Mandates Will Give STM OA Books a Lift
- But SSH OA Will Go Down a Separate Path
- Open Access Book Market
- Introduction
- Origins of a Movement
- Table Timeline of Open Access Publishing, 2000 - 2007
- Open Access Books Metrics
- Table Open Access Book Market, Various Metrics, 2013-2015
- Open Access Books Market Size
- Table Open Access Book Market Revenue, 2013-2015 (Revenue $ in millions)
- Funding & Mandates
- Table Directory of Open Access Books, Titles By Discipline 2015
- Open Access Books by Discipline
- What Type of Books Are Published Open Access?
- Open Access Books by Geography & Language
- Notable Open Access Book Publishers & Programs
- Introduction
- Leading Open Access Book Publishers
- Table Leading Open Access Book Publishers By Total Title Count 2016
- Social Sciences, Humanities Presses Dominate the DOAB
- Table Notable Open Access Book Publishers Ranked by No. Titles, 2016
- Notable Open Access Publisher Profiles
- Amsterdam University Press (WRR in Dutch)
- Australian National University Press
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Bohlau Verlag (Wien, Koln, Weimar)
- Bookboon.com
- Brill
- De Gruyter
- Frontiers
- Gottingen University Press
- Informa
- InTechOpen
- Lever Press
- MDPI AG
- MIT Press
- Oxford University Press
- SciELO Books
- Springer Nature
- Cooperative Open Access Book Programs & Trials
- Knowledge Unlatched
- Unglue.it/Free Ebook Foundation
- Other Open Access Book Programs Not Included
- Google Books
- HathiTrust Digital Library
- Project Gutenberg
- Open Access Book Trends & Forecast
- Introduction
- Current Trends in Open Access Book Publishing
- Open Access Is Not Done Evolving
- Print Book Sales Are Falling, Only Partly Replaced by Digital
- E-Books Have Become 'Journalized' & With Them Also OA Books
- OA Books Build on a Culture of Cooperation
- OA Books Will Capture a Significant Share of Emerging Market Output
- Mandates Will Spread to Books
- Authors Will Seek Quality
- Major Publishers Will Not Play a Large Role in OA Books
- Monographs & Conference Proceedings Are Up for Grabs
- Mandates Will Help STM OA Books
- SSH Books Will Largely Go Down a Separate Path
- Open Access Book Publishing Forecast
- Introduction
- Table Directory of Open Access Books Forecast, Various Metrics, 2016P-2020P
- Open Access Books Forecast
- Table Open Access Book Market Revenue, 2016P-2020P ($ in millions)
- Assumptions
- World Economy & Exchange Rates
- Introduction
Abstract
Open Access Book Publishing 2016-2020
In today’s global market, it’s more important than ever to understand the evolution of academic publishing. Rely on Simba Information’s Open Access Book Publishing 2016-2020 to build your strategy in this emerging market for this year and beyond.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 2020. This research was conducted in conjunction with a larger study of the overall market for scholarly and professional publishing.
Open Access Book Publishing Topics Covered:
Open Access Book Publishing 2016-2020 contains separate chapters covering the academic publishing industry, 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
- A discussion of the market for non-English-language open access publishing
- Simba’s exclusive market projections to 2020 and more.
Industry Trends in Open Access Book Publishing include:
- The continued evolution of open access publishing
- The impact of open access in social science and humanities vs. scientific, technical and medical publishing
- Prevailing publisher business models and experiments
- Commercial publishers go small—for now
- The impact of mandates
- Opportunity for monographs and conference proceedings
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