Developments in OA monograph publishing | Australian Open Access Support Group

"One of the bigger concerns expressed about the ARC open access policy is that it includes all publication outputs. That means books and book chapters*. So what is happening out in monograph-land? As book sales plummet and traditional academic publishers struggle for survival, some organisations are looking at alternative models. This page is a summary of some of the new initiatives in this space. * Bear in mind that the ARC policy only applies to research that is funded from the 2013 round and into the future. That research will need to be undertaken and then crafted into book form, so it is unlikely that the issue of making books open access under the policy will not hit reality for many years."