Submissions

Open Book Publishers welcome submissions from any field, although we have a particular focus on the Humanities and Social Sciences. We are happy to accept projects that are shorter or longer than the ‘standard’ 80,000 words, and we particularly encourage the submission of publications that are innovative in terms of their format. We do not publish PhD dissertations.

We have a proven track record of publishing works that take a bold and creative approach to the possibilities of the book in the digital age, and we welcome authors who seek to explore this too. We are happy to accept proposals for projects that are inter- or cross-disciplinary, or that do not fit neatly into conventional subject categories. We are particularly interested in books that take non-European perspectives.

We typically publish between 40-50 books per year, including monographs, edited collections, textbooks and critical translations. We have published books in German and French, as well as parallel translations of works in other languages, but our main focus is on work written in English.

We welcome proposals on any topic of academic study, as you can see if you browse our catalogue and its categories. In addition, we publish a number of series: take a look and see if your book might find a home in one of these.

For more information about our publishing processes, including how to submit a proposal, visit our information for new authors section.

A note on funding: we do not charge our authors a fee to publish with us (also known as a Book Processing Charge) because we do not believe this to be an equitable or sustainable way of funding Open Access publishing. As we are an independent publisher we do not have institutional support, so we have developed an innovative business model that includes our trailblazing Library Membership programme and sales of paperback, hardback and ebook editions (PDF and HTML editions are freely available). All such income is invested in the publication of new titles. If authors are able to do so, we ask them to apply for funding to defray the costs of publishing their book, but we do not select (or reject) projects on this basis -- decisions about publication are made solely on the outcome of our rigorous peer review process.