Academic Book Week: Tips for academic book authors

Academic Book Week (#AcBookWeek) is a week-long celebration of the diversity, variety and influence of academic books throughout history run by the Booksellers Association, returning for a fourth year from 4-9 March 2019. This week, The Source will be recognising the important role of academic books, including how they engage critical audiences such as the media and policy-makers, as well as reflecting on their evolution and what the future might hold for this research format. This blog focuses on open access book publishing. Springer Nature publishes open access books and chapters under its SpringerOpen, Palgrave Macmillan and Apress imprints. We helped to pioneer open access book publishing, first piloting open access publication for books in 2011. We have published more than 650 open access books across a wide range of areas in science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences. But what does open access publishing offer you as an author? And what do our authors have to say about it? Why publish open access? Open access is playing an ever-increasing role in academic book publishing, as authors aim to reach more readers, influence policymakers, work on collaborative projects and fulfil funders’ open access mandates. Other benefits include helping authors’ careers through the wider exposure their research gains. Worldwide, readers can now download for free over 15,000 open access books and chapters from more than 300 publishers via the Directory of Open Ac...
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