Open Book Publishers

Open Book Publishers (OBP) is an open access academic book publisher based in the United Kingdom. It is a non-profit social enterprise and community interest company (CIC) that promotes open access for academic monographs, edited collections, critical editions and textbooks in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Mathematics and Science. All OBP books are peer-reviewed.

All OBP titles are open access, and are available in free editions in PDF, HTML and XML formats on the publisher's website, and a number of platforms including Google Books, Worldreader, OpenEdition, DOAB, The European Library and Europeana. Some editions are hosted on Wikiversity in socially editable format, e.g. ''In the Lands of the Romanovs: An Annotated Bibliography'' by Anthony Cross (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2015). Readers in developing countries can access OBP titles using e-readers and 2G mobile phones via Worldreader. Open Book Publishers is a partner in the COPIM project, building not-for-profit community-owned, open infrastructures to enable open access book publishing to prosper. OBP is a founder member of [https://scholarled.org/ ScholarLed], a collective of not-for-profit, academic-led, open access book publishers. It is also a founder and co-ordinator of the [https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/ Open Access Books Network], a free and open network for anyone interested in open access books. Provided by Wikipedia