Information for Authors

What Open Book Publishers Offers Its Authors

Open Book Publishers eliminates the restrictions imposed on authors and users by copyright agreements. Applying the emerging Creative Commons framework OBP seeks non-exclusive rights to provide electronic and hard copies of the work published.

Authors, therefore, will retain the copyright on their own work, and the rights to publish their work for both commercial and non-commercial purposes, including holding it in repositories, create derivative works and to reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, and publicly display their book in connection with their teaching, conference presentations, lectures, other scholarly works and professional activities. As part of our Open Access ethos, access to the electronic version of a book will be free and open to all worldwide.

Printed volumes will be distributed through all the traditional bookseller and distribution networks as well as from our own website. We are committed to providing individual editorial support and attention to all our authors and to consulting with them on every aspect of their books.

We give authors control over their texts and it is their responsibility to prepare their work according to the editorial guidelines of Open Book Publishers. We will ensure that the final manuscript complies with our guidelines. At the author's request Open Book Publishers will arrange for additional professional proof-reading and copy-editing services if needed.

Advantages for Authors
  • Open Book Publishers allows authors to maintain copyright on their own works.
  • Cuts down publishing times by printing works within three weeks from receiving the final manuscript.
  • Makes publication decisions on academic merit alone (and not on commercial considerations) through a rigorous peer review and editorial process.
  • Guarantees careful evaluation of any proposal or sample material and constructive feedback.
  • Commits to producing high quality volumes.
  • Makes books affordable to all by retailing paperback editions at around £10, and hardbacks at around £20.
  • Makes full use of the whole range of media available (printed and digital) to ensure their widest possible dissemination of academic research.
  • Provides free online access to read digital versions of all publications.
  • Enables printable digital versions of both the entire book and individual book chapters to be downloaded online.

Editorial Board and Advisory Panel

Prof William Brown (Master of Darwin College, Cambridge)
http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/faculty/brown/index.htm

Prof. Anthony Cross (FBA, Cambridge)
www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/staff/agc28/

Dr. Rupert Gatti ( Trinity College, Cambridge)
www.econ.cam.ac.uk/faculty/gatti/

Dr. Anthony Mandal ( Cardiff)
www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/staff/mandal.html

Prof. Adrian Poole (Head of Faculty of English, Cambridge)
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/

Prof Clive Scott (FBA, University of East Anglia)
http://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home/schools/hum/lit/People/Professor%2BClive%2BScott%252C%2BFBA

Dr. Elinor Shaffer (FBA, Inst. of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London)
www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/rbae/

Prof. Clifford Siskin (NYU)
http://english.fas.nyu.edu/object/CliffordSiskin.html

William St Clair (FBA, FRSL)
www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=474

Prof. William M. Todd III (Harvard College Professor of Russian Literature and Comparative Literature)
http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/bio_todd.html

Dr. Alessandra Tosi (Clare Hall, Cambridge)
www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/staff/at10008/


Book Proposals
Book proposals and general enquiries should be directed to the Managing Editor, Dr. Alessandra Tosi.
 
 
Email: a.tosi@openbookpublishers.com
Address: 40 Devonshire Road, CB1 2BL Cambridge, UK
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 339929