October 2, 2025Open Access

Backlist to the Future: a new business model for university presses and open-access books

MEMartin Paul EveUniversity College Dublin

Key Points

The shift to open-access models may reduce reliance on expensive book processing charges, aiming to enhance accessibility.
The Central European University is the first to adopt this new business model, indicating a positive move in the academic publishing landscape.
This initiative is part of the larger COPIM project, which aims to transform publishing processes for greater openness.
Promoting open-access books could democratize knowledge and benefit authors and readers alike, shaping future publishing.

Abstract

As part of my efforts on Work Package 3 of the COPIM project I am engaged in a project that seeks to convert publishers to business models that will allow them to publish their books openly, without using unaffordable book processing charges (which authors hate and which will not scale). I am pleased to say that, as of today, we can [announce the first press to take the leap: the Central European University

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Martin Paul Eve (Thu,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68de70f583cbc991d0a23622 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.59348/0b8cz-hqd73

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