Open Access Book Publishing 2024-2028
Simba Information’s Open Access Book Publishing 2024-2028 provides an in-depth analysis of the rapidly evolving open-access (OA) book market, highlighting its growth, challenges, and future prospects. The report examines key trends, including the surprising resilience of print sales, which generate significant revenue alongside digital access, with an average of $17,000 per title. It explores the diverse funding models stabilizing OA initiatives, including book processing charges (BPCs), grants, and institutional support, and projects market revenues to grow at a CAGR of 8%, reaching $127 million by 2028. The study also profiles leading publishers and regional contributions, emphasizing the humanities and social sciences’ dominance in OA publishing. This comprehensive resource offers actionable insights for publishers, libraries, researchers, and policymakers navigating the future of academic publishing.
- Methodology
- Definition of Open Access Book Publishing
- Scope of the Report
- Sources of Information
- Methodology for Projecting/Estimating Results
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- What is Open Access Publishing?
- Key Facts and Trends
- OA Book Revenue Continues to Grow
- Viability Questions Fade; New Questions Emerge
- Funding, Funding, Funding
- Study Finds Print Sales of OA Titles Are Significant
- Open Access Book Market
- Introduction
- Market Size
- Revenue
- Table Open Access Book Market Revenue, 2020 – 2024 ($ million)
- What is an OA Book Worth?
- Table Mean BPC Charges for Select Open Access Publishers, 2014 – 2024
- OA Metrics
- Table Directory of Open Access Books Metrics, 2019 – 2023
- Table Scholarly Book Market Segments, 2021 – 2023 ($ million)
- Examining Title Metrics for Individual Publishers in the DOAB
- Open Access Funding Mandates
- Open Access Books by Discipline
- Book Type
- Open Access Books by Geography and Language
- Revenue
- Notable Open Access Book Publishers & Programs
- Introduction
- Leading Open Access Publishers
- Social Science and Humanities Presses Dominate the DOAB
- Table Leading Open Access Book Publishers Ranked by Number of Titles, 2023
- Table Leading Open Access Book Publishers Ranked by Number of Titles, 2023
- Table Leading Open Access Book Publishers Ranked by Number of Titles, 2023
- Leading Open Access Publishers by Revenue
- Table Leading Open Access Book Publishers’ Revenue, 2021 – 2023 ($)
- Publisher Profiles
- MDPI
- Table Publishers Ranked by Titles Added to DOAB, 2022
- Springer Nature
- Taylor & Francis
- IntechOpen
- Table Publishers Ranked by Titles Added to DOAB, 2023
- De Gruyter Brill
- Table Publishers Ranked by Titles Added to the DOAB through July, 2024
- Transcript Verlag
- Nomos Verlag
- Cambridge University Press
- Oxford University Press
- Amsterdam University Press
- MDPI
- Other Notable OA Book Players
- Frontiers
- RAND Corporation
- MIT Press
- Cooperative Open Access Book Program and Trials
- Table Cooperative OA Book Programs, 2023
- Google Books
- HathiTrust Digital Library
- Knowledge Unlatched
- Project MUSE
- Project Gutenberg
- SciELO Books
- Open Access Book Trends and Forecast
- Introduction
- Current Trends in Open Access Book Publishing
- Viability Questions Fade; New Questions Emerge
- Funding, Funding, Funding
- Durable Demand for Print Books Restricts OA Growth
- TOME Comes to a Close
- State of Mandates
- Open Access is Not Done Evolving
- OA Books in SSH Disciplines Can’t Live on BPCs Alone
- Print Book Sales Grow
- Study Finds Print Sales of OA Titles Are Significant
- Open Access Book Publishing Market Forecast
- Introduction
- Table Open Access Book Market Revenue, 2024P – 2028P ($ million)
- Publishing Economies Face Slower Growth in GDP 2024-2028
- Table World GDP Projected Growth by Region, 2024 – 2028 (% annual growth)
- DOAB Metrics Forecast
- Table Directory of Open Access Book Forecast, 2024P – 2028P
- Assumptions
- Revenue Forecast of Top 10 OA Book Publishers
- Table Leading Open Access Book Publishers Forecast, 2024P – 2025P ($ million)
- Introduction
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