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Library Membership

The Open Book Publishers' Library Membership Programme supports our award-winning Open Access monograph publishing programme. By joining the Programme, libraries and their users both support and benefit from OA publishing. We would be delighted to hear from libraries considering joining the Library Membership Programme or interested in further information. Please do not hesitate to contact us at libraries@openbookpublishers.com.

How to Navigate

Explore our library membership programme using the sidebar on the right or the quick links below:

Financial Model

Watch this short video to learn what our library membership is—and what it is not—and to see how barriers are broken so knowledge is free for everyone.

Benefits

By joining this programme, all staff, students and alumni of member libraries can access all of the digital editions of every one of our titles without charge, and they will also receive a discount on any paper copies purchased. The member library is also entitled to an effective discount of 20% on any purchase made by the university library itself. Most importantly, members of the programme will be supporting Open Access publishing and our endeavour to make high-quality academic monographs available to everyone to read for free, without charging authors.

  1. Registered users of the library will be able to download for free the full range of formatted digital editions of our books (pdf, epub, XML). Thus any student, faculty member or alumnus registered with the member library/university can freely download and keep any digital edition of any title from our website. A full list of titles is available in our catalogue.

  2. Support the publication of at least 40 new high-quality Open Access research monographs, and support the development and release of open source software that enables more presses to publish open-access books.

  3. Be able to upload any digital edition of our titles to the library's own digital repository or ebook collection to keep permanently. Thus if you decided to terminate your membership you will maintain permanent and uninterrupted access to all titles accessible during your membership period.

  4. Receive a discount of 20% on any printed editions of titles purchased by the library itself and 30% for bulk orders over ÂŁ150.

  5. Receive a 20% discount on setup charges for all customised editions.

  6. Provide a 15% discount to any registered member of the university library (staff/student/alumnus) on the sales of any printed edition of our titles, purchased from our website.

  7. Receive regular usage statistics.

  8. Download a complete set of MARC records for all OBP titles.

If you are not a member of the programme but would like to know about the discounts we offer for printed editions, please visit our Distribution and Retail page.

Pricing

Open Book Publishers’ membership allows institutions to choose their pricing tier and support OBP in agreement with their individual funding and subscription capacities. Our tier system consists of recommended prices that align with each institution’s size and budget. We won’t impose a tier on any institution, but we encourage institutions that are able to sign-up to their suggested tier or those that would like to join a higher tier to make their selection accordingly. Download more information on pricing tiers

Fees & tiers

Tier structure

TierUSA & AUSCanadaEU*UK
Tier 110,000+ FTECRKN bands 11–1310,000+ FTE, high income countryJisc bands 1–4
Tier 25,000–9,999 FTECRKN bands 7–105,000–9,999 FTE, high income countryJisc bands 5–6
Tier 30–4,999 FTECRKN bands 1–60–4,999 FTE, high income country / orgs. from middle-income countriesJisc bands 7–10

*In the case of European institutions, tiering is determined by a combination of organization size and the World Bank's classification of countries by income.

Fees

TierUSDEURGBP
Tier 1950800700
Tier 2725600500
Tier 3500400300

For institutions based in economically developing nations, some fees may not apply. If you are a librarian at a university or library in such a country and would be interested in receiving more information on how to become a member, please contact us at libraries@openbookpublishers.com.

Informational Documents

Become a Member

We would be delighted to hear from libraries considering joining the library membership programme or interested in further information. Please do not hesitate to contact our Head of Library Relations, Laura RodrĂ­guez at laura@openbookpublishers.com or libraries@openbookpublishers.com.