African Minds is a not-for-profit, open access publisher based in Cape Town, South Africa. We publish predominantly in the social sciences and our authors are typically African academics and thinkers, as well as international academics who have a close affinity with the continent. At African Minds the emphasis is less on the commercial viability of publications than on fostering access, openness …

DOAB is a community-driven index of scholarly peer-reviewed open access books increasing their discoverability and helping users find trusted open access book publishers. OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for peer-reviewed books by connecting academic publishers with libraries and funders through its infrastructure services  providing hosting, distribution, and preservatio…

Leuven University Press is a mission-driven, not-for-profit academic press of international repute, committed to sustainable and future-proof publishing. Our publishing policy aims to combine high-quality and high-impact content with low-threshold access to publishing.

LSE Press is a non-profit open access publisher of high-quality social science research, including monographs, edited collections, textbooks and journals. We publish serious social science research that has the potential to influence academic debate, public policy and the broader conversation. 

mediastudies.press is a nonprofit, scholar-led, open access publisher committed to a vision of OA that does not impose author paywalls in place of reader paywalls. We are committed to bibliodiversity, scaling small, mutual aid, and the campaign to reclaim scholarly publishing and its supporting infrastructure from the oligopolists.

meson press publishes experimental, innovative, multi-format open access books on digital cultures and networked media. Its publications challenge contemporary theories and advance key debates in the humanities today.

Open Book Publishers (OBP) is an award-winning, scholar-led, non-profit press that publishes widely across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and has a growing number of titles in STEM subjects. OBP's book series have fostered strong collections of Classics titles, Semitic Languages and Cultures, and World Oral Literature, among others. OBP is also committed to supporting community-led i…

The PKP-OMP Supporter Program will enable the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) to develop enhanced functionalities for Open Monograph Press (OMP), an open source end-to-end solution for publishing scholar books. It will support improved usability, increased accessibility, better integrations and indexation possibilities for OMP books, as well as expanded free community education resources for emerg…

punctum books is an independent queer- and scholar-led, community-formed, and peer-reviewed Sparkly Diamond publisher of open access books in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Fine Arts, and Architecture & Design. Three primary concentrations for punctum are (1) books that shift the paradigm in established disciplines; (2) books that help to create emerging transdisciplinary fields; and (3) …

Sidestone Press, founded by scholars for scholars, is a leading academic publishing house committed to Open Science. Specializing in History, Archaeology, and Anthropology, Sidestone collaborates with individual researchers and esteemed institutions such as universities and museums. 

Thoth open Metadata is a metadata creation, management, and dissemination platform specifically tailored to tackle the problems of getting open access publications into the book supply chain. The platform provides publishers with a tool to gather all of the metadata needed to disseminate books, such as information on titles, authors, publication dates, and the like, as well as metadata speci…

Our mission at the University of London Press (UoL Press) is to ‘open up humanities research’, built on a long publishing history and a commitment to supporting researchers. We are an award-winning, non-profit, predominantly open access university press, and an expert and creative publishing partner for the authors and organisations we work with. UoL Press is a participant in a variety of collabo…

Launched in 2015, and based in the heart of Central London, the University of Westminster Press (UWP) is a digital-first open access publisher of peer reviewed academic books, policy briefs and journals. UWP exists to provide global public access to academic work in multiple formats. In partnership with our authors and editors, we publish in areas that reflect the teaching and research strengths …

Verlag Barbara Budrich is an independent academic publishing company specialising in Humanities and Social Sciences. Founded in 2004 in Germany, we aim at serving our scholarly communities with high-quality publications in German and English across borders. Mission-driven, we are looking for ways of transitioning towards Diamond Open Access which helps dissemination of reliable knowledge as well …

The White Horse Press is a small independent family-run press specialising in environment and society from a humanities and social sciences perspective. We have published books and journals on a traditional basis for over 30 years and are now committed to transitioning to an Open Access model.