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…

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…

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) …

Thoth 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 specific to digital…

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.