Higher education institutions develop their services in open monograph publishing

Abstract

The costs of open publishing and the scarcity of open access venues has motivated higher education institutions to provide high-quality, free open publishing services to the researchers through the libraries or by founding open access university presses, write Marja Hirn (Helsinki University Library) and Irene Ylönen (Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä) in Signum (3/2019). The services can consists of journal hosting services or open monographs publishing, especially in humanities and social sciences. This has been a growing library trend in 2019 and is likely to increase in the following years. (Markku Roinila)

• An article about open books as part of higher education institutions' publishing culture, Avoimet kirjat osaksi korkeakoulujen julkaisukulttuuria – haasteita ja mahdollisuuksia (in Finnish)

Read more about higher education institutions' OA services:

• Helda Open Books at the University of Helsinki
• University of Tampere's Trepo repository publishes also monographs
• An article on OA publishing of university presses: Mapping the Publishing Challenges for an Open Access University Press
• An article on open journal hosting service: Developing an open journals hosting service