Finance and Funding
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- Article Processing Charges and Book Processing Charges
- Edinburgh University Press's OA Charges
- Funding Sources
- Other OA Models
Article Processing Charges and Book Processing Charges
In most cases, in order for a publisher to make your article, book or chapter available as Gold Open Access, they will require an Article Processing Charge (APC), Book Processing Charge (BPC) or Chapter Processing Charge (CPC), as applicable. Publishers need these in order to make up for the revenue that is lost from your article/book being available free of charge in digital format.
Edinburgh University Press's OA Charges
Information about our OA policies, including details of our APCs, BPCs and CPCs and the reduced charges for retrospective OA (i.e. making books OA after they have been published), can be found here.
Funding Sources
If your publication is from a funded research project, check with your funder if there is an expectation to publish open access and if they have funding to support this.
Some university departments will also have funds available for OA, so you may want to check this with your department.
Other OA Models
We also participate in a number of initiatives that allow us to submit books to be made Open Access at no cost to the author, although this cannot be guaranteed:
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) – through KU, publishers are able to nominate a certain number of relevant books to be made OA. The books will have already been published, within a given time frame, and will fit the subjects/themes chosen by KU. KU then seeks funding from a consortium of libraries, and then, depending on the funding received, decides which titles to make OA. If your book is selected, and if you agree to have your ebook made OA, your book will then be made available as OA. The publisher receives a set fee from KU, instead of a BPC from you.
OpenUP Early Career Researcher (ECR) Monograph initiative – six university presses from the UK (Edinburgh University Press, Bristol University Press, Liverpool University Press, Manchester University Press, UCL Press and University of Wales Press) have launched a collaborative project to secure funding for a number of first books by UK-based early-career researchers. The initiative is currently on a 3-year pilot (2022–2025), with the first batch of books to publish in 2023. The funding and selection process for the current pilot has now ended, but we hope to run it again in future years.
For authors based at the University of Edinburgh
EUP have launched an initiative to fund EUP monographs authored by CAHSS staff to be published open access, with 50 books due to benefit from this between 2023 and 2027.
Other sources – the University of Edinburgh has signed transformative agreements and institutional memberships to enable corresponding authors from the University to publish eligible research articles open access for no extra cost.
