We're proud to offer a range of open access options to our book authors and their sponsoring bodies.
We offer open access across all of our book formats – monographs, handbooks, short form and professional content.
We give open access authors unparalleled reach
All our open access books are automatically licenced
All of the open access books we publish are automatically licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0). This allows for the unrestricted use, hosting, distribution, and re-use – even for commercial purposes – of all of our open access books, as long as the original source is attributed.
Other licences are available on request. Please discuss alternative options with your editor and check with your funding body.
Quality is at the heart of everything that we do
The books we publish – whether they're open access or not – go through the same rigorous peer review process. We use a single blind review process for all proposal and manuscript reviews, and follow best practice to ensure anonymity of reviewers and the independence of reviews.
Here is an outline of the process that we follow:
We reserve the right to reject proposals at any stage in the process. In the case of a negative review, we may invite a response from the author and/or solicit a further review from another scholar to verify the comments of the first reviewer. If extensive changes are suggested, we may ask the author to revise and resubmit the proposal. We may also commission a final full manuscript review (ideally from our proposal reviewer) when the manuscript is complete, before the book goes into production.
Find out about our book processing charges
CCBY 4.0 (GBP) | CCBY 4.0 (USD) | CCBY 4.0 (EUR) | |
Monograph | £9,000 | $13,999 | €11,299 |
Short form | £6,000 | $9,399 | €7,499 |
Handbook | £12,000 | $18,699 | €14,999 |
If you have any questions about Emerald, open access and books, please get in touch at books@emeraldinsight.com