Dublin, Feb. 13, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Open Access Book Publishing 2018-2022" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's 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 2018-2022 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 author quantifies open access book publishing as a market segment, using the information it gathered through primary and secondary research to develop a financial outlook for open access book publishing with market projections through 2022. This research was conducted in conjunction with a larger study of the overall market for scholarly and professional publishing.

Open Access Book Publishing 2018-2022 contains separate chapters covering the market, notable publishers and programs, and issues and forecast that include:

• 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
• Market projections to 2020 and more

Publishers and investment professionals can trust Open Access Book Publishing 2018-2022 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 2018-2022 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.

Key Topics Covered:

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 Reach $37 million, Up 31.7%
• 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

Open Access Book Market

• Introduction
• Market Size
• Revenue
• Table Open Access Book Market Revenue, 2013-2017 ($ in millions)
• What is an OA Book Worth?
• OA Metrics
• Table Directory of Open Access Books Metrics, 2013-2017
• Table OA Books Published by InTechOpen, Springer Nature & Knowledge Unlatched, 2013-2017
• OA Funding & Mandates
• OA Books by Discipline
• Book Type
• OA Books by Geography and Language

Notable Open Access Book Publishers & Programs

• Introduction
• Leading Open Access Publishers
• Social Science and Humanities Presses Dominate the DOAB
• Table Leading OA Book Publishers Ranked by Number of Titles, 2018
• Leading OA Book Publishers by Revenue
• Table Leading OA Book Publishers' Revenue, 2015-2017 ($ in millions)
• Notable OA Publisher Profiles
  • Amsterdam University Press (WRR in Dutch)
  • Australian National University Press (ANU Press)
  • Bloomsbury Academic
  • Bohlau Verlag
  • Bookboon.com
  • Brill
  • De Gruyter
  • Frontiers
  • Gottingen University Press
  • Informa PLC
  • InTechOpen
  • Lever Press
  • MDPI AG
  • Oxford University Press (OUP)
  • Presses Universitaires de Rennes (PUR)
  • Punctum Books
  • Springer Nature
  • transcript Verlag
• Cooperative OA Book Programs and Trials
  • Google Books
  • HathiTrust Digital Library
  • Knowledge Unlatched
  • MUSE Open
  • Table Cooperative OA Book Programs, 2018
  • Project Gutenberg
  • SciELO Books
• Mergers & Acquisitions in the Open Book Publishing Market

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
  • 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 Open Access Book Market Revenue, 2018P-2022P ($ in millions)
  • Open Access Books Forecast
  • Table Directory of Open Access Book Forecast, 2018P-2022P
  • Assumptions
  • World Economy and Exchange Rates
  • Revenue Forecast of Top 5 OA Book Publishers
  • Table Leading Open Book Publishers Forecast, 2017-2018P ($ in millions)
    

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