[INDOLOGY] about Routledge and Open Access fees

Sun Jun 4 11:07:28 UTC 2023

We had a very good experience publishing our Puṣpikā volume with HASP 
<https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/?lang=en>. They are an open access 
publisher focusing on Asian studies. They do not charge OA fees, 
organize peer review on request, and offer printed versions as print on 
demand for a very moderate fee. More details on their services: 
https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/publishing/for_authors.

Further fair open access (FOA) options are collected at the FOASAS 
website, run by Dominik Haas and myself: https://foasas.org/#journals. 
If you know of any other good OA publishers not yet listed here please 
get in contact with us.

Best wishes,
Vitus Angermeier

Am 04.06.23 um 06:50 schrieb McComas Taylor via INDOLOGY:
> The Australian National University Press (ANU Press) is a leading 
> open-access publisher.  They don't charge to publish book per se, but 
> they do require authors to use one of their approved copy-editors.  I 
> have followed this path twice - both for 500-page volumes. The total 
> cost for each volume was about US$4000.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> McComas
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> *McComas Taylor, *Associate Professor, Reader in Sanskrit
> College of Asia and Pacific, Australian National University
> Secretary-General, International Assoc. of Sanskrit Studies
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> *From:* INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of 
> Arlo Griffiths via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Sent:* Saturday, June 3, 2023 3:59 PM
> *To:* INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Subject:* [INDOLOGY] about Routledge and Open Access fees
> Dear colleagues,
>
> For several years now I have observed colleagues publishing their 
> monographs or edited volumes with Routledge, asking myself why any 
> colleague should wish to entrust such a ruthlessly profit-oriented 
> enterprise with their scholarly work, while there are more sympathetic 
> commercial publishers not to mention quite a number of non-commercial 
> publishers willing and able to publish Indological research.
>
> Anyhow, I wish to report a concrete bad experience. Several colleagues 
> participating in the ERC project DHARMA have contributed to a volume 
> published earlier this year in the Routledge Worlds series. Since the 
> ERC requires research produced thanks to its funding to appear in Open 
> Access, it seemed necessary to us to accept paying the publisher's 
> Open Access fees in order to ensure that the contributions by said 
> colleagues would appear in Open Access. My employer has paid £3.750,00 
> funding to the publisher late last year as "Fees for making three 
> chapters Open Access in the book The Angkorian
> World." See the attachment. From the budget of the ERC project 
> Archaeospace, initiated by my colleague Damian Evans (incidentally, 
> one of the editors of the volume), we paid the same sum once more for 
> three other chapters, though I was not involved in that decision. The 
> book was published on 28 April 
> (https://www.routledge.com/The-Angkorian-World/Hendrickson-Stark-Evans/p/book/9780815355953) 
> and yet not a single chapter has so far been made available in Open 
> Access by the publisher. They would seem to have taken European tax 
> payers' money and run with it.
>
> Yesterday one of the editors wrote to me: "I received word from 
> Routledge that they are working on making the six chapters open 
> access. I am not sure why this is taking so long but it is pretty much 
> par for the course with this publishing house. Avoid them in the 
> future is my advice." I could not agree more with this advice.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Arlo Griffiths
> EFEO
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> <https://www.routledge.com/The-Angkorian-World/Hendrickson-Stark-Evans/p/book/9780815355953>
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> The Angkorian World 
> <https://www.routledge.com/The-Angkorian-World/Hendrickson-Stark-Evans/p/book/9780815355953>
> The Angkorian World explores the history of Southeast Asia’s largest 
> ancient state from the first to mid-second millennium CE. Chapters by 
> leading scholars combine evidence from archaeology, texts, and the 
> natural sciences to introduce the Angkorian state, describe its 
> structure, and explain its persistence over more than six centuries. 
> Comprehensive and accessible, this book will be an indispensable 
> resource for anyone studying premodern Asia. The volume’s first of six 
> sections provides his
> www.routledge.com
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*Dr. Vitus Angermeier*
PI at the FWF Project "Epidemics and Crisis Management in Pre-modern 
South Asia"
University of Vienna
Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies 
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