Open Access Book Publishing 2020-2024

Report
65 Pages
December 2020
Region: Global
SIMBA Information
ID: 5214997

In today’s global market, it’s more important than ever to understand the evolution of academic publishing. Rely on the Open Access Book Publishing 2020-2024 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, Simba Information quantifies open access book publishing as a market segment. Simba used the information it gathered through primary and secondary research to develop a financial outlook for open access book publishing with market projections through 2024. This research was conducted in conjunction with a larger study of the overall market for scholarly and professional publishing.

Open Access Book Publishing 2020-2024 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
Exclusive market projections to 2024 and more.

Publishers and investment professionals can trust Open Access Book Publishing 2020-2024 to provide the inside intelligence needed to evaluate growth potential, understand trends affecting the industry, and size up the competition.

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
Open access mandates spread to books
Opportunity for monographs and conference proceedings
Emerging markets fertile ground for open access.

Open Access Book Publishing 2020-2024 is an essential tool for publishing executives, M&A advisors, market analysts, and industry consultants who need to understand the business strategies driving the scholarly and professional publishing industry.

Simba has a knowledge base from more than 20 years worth of perspective on these markets and the rapid changes in technology, the economy, mergers, partnerships and public policy that affect it.

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 & TRENDS
OA Books Decline for First Time to $45 million in 2019
OA Books Continue to Experiment with Business Models
Most OA Publishers Are European SSH Presses
The Large STM Commercial Publishers Will Be Slow Join the Party
Funder Mandates Give STM OA Books a Lift
Social Sciences & Humanities OA Will Go Down a Separate Path

CHAPTER 1: OPEN ACCESS BOOK MARKET

INTRODUCTION
MARKET SIZE
Revenue
Table 1.1: Open Access Book Market Revenue, 2015-2019
What is an OA Book Worth?
Table 1.2: Mean BPC Charges for Select Open Access Publishers, 2017-2020
OA Metrics
Table 1.3: Directory of Open Access Books Metrics, 2015-2019
Figure 1.4: Leading Open Access Book Publishers’ Title Growth, 2015-2019
Figure 1.5: Leading Open Access Publishers’ Growth in Titles Added to DOAB, 2017-2020
OA Funding & Mandates
OA Books by Discipline
Figure 1.6: Open Access Book Titles by Discipline, YTD 2020
Book Type
OA Books by Geography and Language
Figure 1.7: Open Access Books by Language, YTD 2020

CHAPTER 2: NOTABLE OPEN ACCESS BOOK PUBLISHERS & PROGRAMS

INTRODUCTION
LEADING OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHERS
Figure 2.1: Leading Open Access Book Publishers, By Total Title Count, 2020 YTD
SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES PRESSES DOMINATE THE DOAB
Table 2.2: Leading OA Book Publishers Ranked by Number of Titles, 2020
Table 2.2 (Continued): Leading OA Book Publishers Ranked by Number of Titles, 2020
Table 2.2 (Continued): Leading OA Book Publishers Ranked by Number of Titles, 2020
LEADING OA BOOK PUBLISHERS BY REVENUE
Table 2.3: Leading OA Book Publishers’ Revenue, 2017-2019
NOTABLE OA PUBLISHER PROFILES
Table 2.4 Publishers Ranked by Titles Added to DOAB in 2019
IntechOpen
De Gruyter
Table 2.5: Publishers Ranked by Titles Added to DOAB in 2018
Frontiers
Bookboon.com
MDPI
KIT Scientific Publishing
Peter Lang International
Springer Nature
Table 2.6: Publishers Ranked by Titles Added to DOAB YTD 2020
Presses universitaires de Rennes (PUR)
Table 2.7: Publishers Ranked by Titles Added to DOAB in 2017
Taylor & Francis
transcript Verlag
Australian National University Press (ANU Press)
Coimbra University Press
Brill
Amsterdam University Press (WRR in Dutch)
COOPERATIVE OA BOOK PROGRAMS AND TRIALS
Google Books
HathiTrust Digital Library
Knowledge Unlatched
MUSE Open
Table 2.8: Cooperative OA Book Programs, 2018
Project Gutenberg
SciELO Books

CHAPTER 3: OPEN ACCESS BOOK TRENDS & FORECAST

INTRODUCTION
CURRENT TRENDS IN OPEN ACCESS BOOK PUBLISHING
Viability of Open Access Books Remains Uncertain
Social Science & Humanities Books Will Largely Go Down a Separate Path
Springer Nature Will Play a Large Role in OA Books
Mandates Spread to Books
Open Access Is Not Done Evolving
Print Book Sales Are Falling, Only Part Replaced by E-Books
Figure 3.1: Scholarly Professional Print Book, Closed Access E-Book & OA Book Revenue, 2017-2019
Figure 3.2: Scholarly Professional Print Book, Closed Access E-Book, OA Book Growth, 2014-2019
OA Books Bring Gains, But Also Complications like Double Dipping
OA Books Build on a Culture of Cooperation
Emerging Markets Fertile Ground for OA Books
Monographs and Conference Proceedings Are Up for Grabs
OPEN ACCESS BOOK PUBLISHING MARKET FORECAST
Introduction
Table 3.3: Open Access Book Market Revenue, 2020P-2024P
Open Access Books Forecast
Table 3.4: Directory of Open Access Book Forecast, 2020P-2024P
Assumptions
Forecasters Optimistic Global Economy Will Recover in 2021
Table 3.5: World GDP Projected Growth by Region, 2020-2024
Revenue Forecast of Top 5 OA Book Publishers
Table 3.6: Leading Open Book Publishers Forecast, 2019-2020P

Companies Mentioned

Amsterdam University Press (WRR in Dutch)
Australian National University Press (ANU Press)
Bookboon.com
Brill
Coimbra University Press
De Gruyter
Frontiers
Google
HathiTrust Digital Library
IntechOpen
KIT Scientific Publishing
Knowledge Unlatched
MDPI
Peter Lang International
Presses universitaires de Rennes (PUR)
Project Gutenberg
SciELO Books
Springer Nature
Taylor & Francis
transcript Verlag

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