Open access books and chapters
At Taylor & Francis we’ve been publishing open access journals since 2006, and in 2013 we launched our open access book program. We publish open access books and book chapters across all subjects in the humanities, social sciences, STEM and behavioral sciences covered by Routledge, CRC Press and our other imprints.
Anyone, anywhere can access over 1,600 books with open access book content through our Taylor & Francis eBooks platform.
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What are open access books?
Open access books are single- or co-authored books, edited collections and conference proceedings published as gold open access. This means that they are freely available to anyone, anywhere.
Our open access book content benefits from:
Rigorous peer review
Increased reach of researcher content
Digital Rights Management (DRM) free
Guaranteed legacy preservation of scholarship as research is stored in archives at Portico
The same high quality professional production process as our traditionally published titles
It is our belief that the option to publish open access is available to as many researchers as possible. To help achieve this we also offer discounts on the Book Processing Charges (BPCs) normally required to publish in the Taylor & Francis open access books program to eligible funders from lower income countries.
Taylor & Francis is a Gold Sponsor of the directory of open access books (DOAB).
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers.
Open access books and chapters: publishing options
Open access books
Enable researchers to make single- or co-authored books, edited collections and conference proceedings gold open access upon publication.
Open access chapters
Give researchers the flexibility to open one or multiple chapters within a title to gold open access.
Retrospective open access
Convert full books or individual chapters to gold open access after publication. This route benefits from tiered pricing which is linked to the date of publication.
Open access collections
Open multiple titles or chapters from your institution’s researchers to increase the visibility and impact of work.
Taylor & Francis partnership with Knowledge Unlatched
Knowledge Unlatched collections are living collections that continue to expand. These collections are financed through libraries coming together to crowd fund key research, making it available to all.
Browse the Routledge Gender Studies and African Studies collections
Supporting your researchers to publish open access books
Discover the flexibility of our open access book memberships – a bespoke solution to support your researchers in publishing open access. Simplify the process of publishing open access for authors, reduce administration for library staff, and benefit from discounted publication charges.
How librarians can help researchers fund open access book projects
Find out more on funding for publishing open access books.
Learn about open access book memberships.
The open access books process in five steps
View the open access books process infographic.
Open access licensing
Learn about open access licensing.
Open access and technology
Discover nine aspects of open access and technology.
Open access is key to the Sustainable Development Goals
More on open access and Sustainable Development Goals.
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If you’d like more information about any of the open access book publishing options introduced above, please get in touch.