Digital books in the humanities and social sciences
The digital publishing platform OpenEdition Books aims to build an international library for the digital humanities while encouraging publishers to develop Open Access over the long term. OpenEdition Books embraces all cultural domains, historical periods and the major academic languages. OpenEdition Books currently distributes 1,000 books from 27 publishers. More than half of the books are in Open Access. This catalogue will expand by 2,000 extra books each year. Complementary services, in particular access to stand-alone formats (PDFs and ePubs), are offered to libraries and institutions subscribing to the OpenEdition Freemium for Books programme.
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OpenEdition Books is part of OpenEdition, an integrated digital publishing infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences which brings together 350 journals (Revues.org), a research blogs platform (Hypotheses) and an academic events calendar (Calenda). OpenEdition is developed by the Centre for Open Electronic Publishing (ClĂŠo), a non-profit public initiative supported by the major French research institutions and dedicated to the promotion of Open Access digital publishing.
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OpenEdition Books for publishers Principles • Free to sign up • Non-exclusivity • Books are selected by OpenEdition’s academic board
AccEsS • No DRM or quotas • At least 50% of books in OpenEdition Freemium: HTML is available in open access; other formats are on sale with associated services • A maximum of 50% of books in restricted access. All formats are on sale with associated services
Formats • A natively XML platform, allowing for the automatic generation of many formats: HTML, ePub, PDF, Mobi • A platform that operates using the TEI OpenEdition format, which has been adopted by French university presses • A state-of-the-art platform: ONIX, OAI-PMH, CLOCKSS, stable and long-term archiving
Visibility • A specialist team for referencing content • Ergonomic and elegant navigation interfaces (responsive design)
Sales • Distribution in libraries and digital bookstores • Selling price set by the publisher • The publisher receives 66% of revenues from library subscriptions and 50% of digital bookstore sales
Digitisation • A digitisation support programme for publishers’ backlists (“15,000 Books” programme) can be provided entirely at OpenEdition’s expense (subject to conditions) • The digitisation programme is available for print or PDF versions of books
books.openedition.org contact@openedition.org @OE_Books
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