Whilst the journals market is seeing significant growth for open access publication-43 percent growth in articles published in fully open access journals from 13,500 in 2013 to 18,000 in 2014, according to Scopus-it's a much less certain future for monographs. And yet The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) lists 3,288 academic peer-reviewed books from 111 publishers, which is not an insubstantial number of titles.
We launched our own open access monograph offering in 2013 and we welcome the greater number of funders who are committing to provide support for book publication charges and anticipate that this will further increase with mandates expected in the future. More and more publishers, including new university presses, are now investigating new models for open monographs.
