EBA & Open

Combine an Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA) with the benefits of publishing open access (OA)

Our EBA & Open model combines the data driven benefits of our Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA) model with the additional advantage of offering your researchers reduced Book Publishing Charges (BPC) when publishing a Taylor & Francis book Open Access.

It’s a new flexible option in 2025 that helps academic institutions get the most value out of their budgets. Contact us to learn more.

How the EBA & Open model works

With our EBA model, an initial deposit gives you a 12-month subscription to an extended number of eBooks. For example, a £10K deposit gives your patrons access to £150K+ worth of eBooks. All eBooks are DRM free and available to an unlimited number of users.

After a year, you use your initial deposit to purchase books to own permanently via perpetual access. You decide which books to keep, there are no automatic purchases.

We can help you select the initial pool of ebooks and provide ongoing support. We’ll share usage data so you can see which books provide the most value and help you to decide what to keep.

With EBA & Open you get two additional benefits:

  1. Access to more books in the first 12 months – giving you greater flexibility to try ebooks with high denials or experiment with new subjects.

  2. Significant reductions to the Book Publishing Charges (BPC) when your researchers publish their Taylor & Francis Book Open Access.

To qualify for these benefits you just need to commit to publishing one Open Access book within the 12 month period in which you are given access to the EBA pool of content.

Benefits of EBA & Open

  • Increases the amount of content your readers have access to versus a traditional EBA model. Purchasing even a single BPC expands the EBA content pool.

  • Helps your faculty publish more open access books at a lower cost

  • Increases your institution’s profile and impact. Newly published OA titles receive on average 14 times as many views and downloads as comparable non-OA titles, accessed on average by 4 times as many institutions from 3 times as many countries in the first 12 months after publication. For more information read our study: The Impact of Open Access on eBook Usage.