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About us

Open Book Publishers (OBP), founded in 2008, is a leading independent open access academic press that publishes peer-reviewed monographs, edited collections, textbooks, critical translations and more. We are a non-profit social enterprise based in the UK and run by academics and we are committed to making high-quality research available to every reader. All our books are freely available in open access formats (PDF, HTML and XML), as well as high-quality, affordably priced paperbacks, hardbacks, and ebooks. We do not charge our authors to publish with us and they retain full copyright.

We are an influential member of a growing international network of publishers, scholars, librarians and infrastructure providers who believe that it is time for academic book publishing to become fairer, faster and more accessible. Together with our colleagues across the world, we are building communities and infrastructure to create a future in which knowledge is shared openly.

Explore our values and our work by using the menu on the left-hand side of the screen, or go to Information for New Authors to find out more about publishing with us.

For general information about open access book publishing, see our Open Access Guide for Academics and the OAPEN Open Access Toolkit.