Report: The Cost to Publish TOME Monographs

AUPresses is pleased to release their report, “The Cost to Publish TOME Monographs.” Download the report. As only the first piece of a larger assessment of the TOME initiative, this study will become most meaningful in the context of further examination being undertaken over the coming year.  One of the original questions for the TOME organizers was whether the $15,000 baseline title grant was “the right number.” This report poses a new question that has developed over the course of the pilot: “The right number for what?” The foundational drivers of the TOME pilot included expanding financial support for valued modes of publishing book-length scholarship, opening up humanities and social sciences monographs to a broad global readership, and supporting the research and publication efforts of university faculty in those fields. In assessing the TOME pilot experience fully, each of these goals may help weight aspects of cost, impact, and investment differently as the partner communities look to the future.