University of Westminster Press is a non-profit, open access, institutionally-based publisher of peer reviewed arts, humanities and social science research. Founded in 2015, we publish c. seven books per year including monographs, edited collections, shortform books, textbooks, and policy briefs and reports. We also publish six diamond open access journals. We have particular strengths in media and communications studies and also publish in law, geography, political science, cultural studies and other subject areas. Via our membership of OBC we aim to build our books programme to publish 10 books per year in specific areas to offer scholars more opportunities to publish utilising a values-led diamond open access model.
Fees & tiers
University of Westminster Press offers a membership package with tiered pricing, as detailed below. For pricing in other countries, please contact info@openbookcollective.org
Tier structure
TIER | USA & AUS | CANADA | EU* | UK |
Tier 1 | 10,000+ FTE | CRKN bands 11-13 | Large org., high income country | Jisc bands 1-4 |
Tier 2 | 5,000-9,999 FTE | CRKN bands 7-10 | Medium org., high income country | Jisc bands 5-6 |
Tier 3 | 0-4,999 FTE | CRKN bands 1-6 | Small org., high income country / orgs. from middle-income countries | Jisc bands 7-10 |
*In the case of European institutions, tiering is determined by a combination of organisation size and the World Bank's classification of countries by income. Small organisations are defined as 0-4,999 FTE, medium organisations are defined as 5,000-9,999 FTE, and large organisations as 10,000+ FTE.
Fees
TIER | USA | AUS | CANADA | EU | UK |
Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 | 1250 750 375 | 1900 1150 575 | 1700 1000 500 | 1150 700 350 | 1000 600 300 |
Contract length
Benefits
University of Westminster Press provides those who support its Membership Package with:
- Annual stakeholder report on our activities with a commitment to transparency regarding our expenditure and costs
- Usage statistics from JSTOR, OAPEN and Project Muse provided on request as well as included in our annual report
- Acknowledgement of supporting libraries on our website, via our social media accounts and in publications that OBC funding has supported
- Regular updates through our email list for library supporters
- CSV, ONIX, KBART, BibTeX and CrossRef DOI catalog formats from Thoth (with other file formats in development)
- The right to use the UWP logo by supporting libraries
- Host webinars for supporting members on setting up and running institutional and library-based publishing operations, with mentorship also offered, subject to availability
