Open Access for Monographs. The quest for a sustainable model to save the endangered scholarly book | Janneke Adema - Academia.edu

"This article questions the sustainability of the current print-based subscription model for publishing books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The lack of availability and dissemination of the scholarly monograph (in print and digital), has led to a quest for new business models based on the Open Access publishing of books. The common characteristics of these new models are discussed and a new model for the funding and publishing of Open Access books is introduced. This model, developed within the OAPEN project, is based on an author-pays scheme and on the principle that research and the dissemination of research results should not be separated, as they both are essential elements in the scholarly communication process."