Can I publish a monograph in Open Access?

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Though articleAlthough OA for journal articles is well developed, monographOA OAfor monographs is stilla innascent its infancyarea and practices are muchfar less standardisedstandardised. thanHowever, fora journals.growing Nevertheless,number more and moreof publishers allow forthe digital version of a book to be published in OA at the OA publication of digital versions of books from the momenttime of publication (Gold OA)OA). The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB ) listsis academic,a peerlist of peer-reviewed Open Accessacademic books. OpenEdition is another Open Access Book platform mainlyprimarily for booksFrench-language in French.books. Both are excellent sources tofor get to know thefinding publishers whothat already publish books in Open Access. ThePublication costs of Goldfor Open Access to books isare financedfunded by the SNSF for all swiss-basedresearchers researchers.in Switzerland.

It is also possible to granpublish books in Open Access to books throughvia the Green Roadroute (Green OA), or thei.e. self-archiving of the manuscript and itswith opening after an embargo. In this case, researchers are expected tomust negotiate with publishers on a case-by-basecase basis. UNIL researchers can request funding for Green OA for books through the Fonds de publications UNIL.