DUBLIN, Apr 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Open Access Book Publishing" report to their offering.

In today's global market, it's more important than ever to understand the evolution of academic publishing. Rely on Open Access Book Publishing 2016-2020 to build your strategy in this emerging market for this year and beyond.

This report explains the origins of the open access movement, gives a timeline for its development, but most importantly, the research quantifies open access book publishing as a market segment. The research uses the information gathered through primary and secondary research to develop a financial outlook for open access book publishing with market projections through 2020. This research was conducted in conjunction with a larger study of the overall market for scholarly and professional publishing.

Open Access Book Publishing 2016-2020 contains separate chapters covering the market, notable publishers and programs, and issues and forecast that include:

• Exclusive analysis of market size and structure
• Title growth metrics
• Open access book publishing by discipline
• A look at key geographic markets that are pushing the development of open access books
• A discussion of the market for non-English-language open access publishing
• Exclusive market projections to 2020 and more.

Examples of some of the issues discussed include:

• The continued evolution of open access
• The impact of open access in social science and humanities vs. scientific, technical and medical
• Prevailing business models and experiments
• Commercial publishers go small - for now
• The impact of mandates
• Opportunity for monographs and conference proceedings

Key Topics Covered:

Introduction

• Methodology
• Definition of Open Access Book Publishing
• Scope of the Report
• Sources of Information
• Methodology for Estimating/Projecting Results
• Executive Summary
• What is Open Access Publishing?
• Key Facts & Trends

Summary

• Nearly 10,000 Scholarly & Academic OA Books Are Available on the Internet
• OA Books Grow 30% a Year, Account for About $21M in 2015 Revenue
• OA Books Continue to Experiment with Business Models
• Most OA publishers Are European SSH presses
• The Large Commercial Publishers Will Join the Party
• Funder Mandates Will Give STM OA Books a Lift
• But SSH OA Will Go Down a Separate Path

Chapter 1: Open Access Book Market

• Origins of a Movement
• Open Access Books Metrics
• Open Access Books Market Size
• Funding & Mandates
• Open Access Books by Discipline
• What Type of Books Are Published Open Access?
• Open Access Books by Geography & Language

Chapter 2: Notable Open Access Book Publishers & Programs

• Leading Open Access Book Publishers
• Social Sciences, Humanities Presses Dominate the DOAB
• Notable Open Access Publisher Profiles
• Cooperative Open Access Book Programs & Trials
• Knowledge Unlatched
• Unglue.it/Free Ebook Foundation
• Other Open Access Book Programs Not Included
• Google Books
• HathiTrust Digital Library
• Project Gutenberg

Chapter 3: Open Access Book Trends & Forecast

• Current Trends in Open Access Book Publishing
• Open Access Is Not Done Evolving
• Print Book Sales Are Falling, Only Partly Replaced by Digital
• E-Books Have Become 'Journalized' & With Them Also OA Books
• OA Books Build on a Culture of Cooperation
• OA Books Will Capture a Significant Share of Emerging Market Output
• Mandates Will Spread to Books
• Authors Will Seek Quality
• Major Publishers Will Not Play a Large Role in OA Books
• Monographs & Conference Proceedings Are Up for Grabs
• Mandates Will Help STM OA Books
• SSH Books Will Largely Go Down a Separate Path
• Open Access Book Publishing Forecast
• Introduction
• Open Access Books Forecast
• Assumptions
• World Economy & Exchange Rates

Companies Mentioned

• Amsterdam University Press (WRR in Dutch)
• Australian National University Press
• Bloomsbury Academic
• Bohlau Verlag (Wien, Koln, Weimar)
• Bookboon.com
• Brill
• De Gruyter
• Frontiers
• Gottingen University Press
• Informa
• InTechOpen
• Lever Press
• MDPI AG
• MIT Press
• Oxford University Press
• SciELO Books
• Springer Nature

For more information about this report visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/27kbcp/open_access_book

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