[INDOLOGY] about Routledge and Open Access fees

Sun Jun 4 15:25:02 UTC 2023

Indeed interesting. Just curious to know how they "organize peer review on
request"...
Best,
Jan Houben

On Sun, 4 Jun 2023 at 13:08, Vitus Angermeier via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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> 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
>
>
> *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>
> <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of Arlo Griffiths via
> INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Sent:* Saturday, June 3, 2023 3:59 PM
> *To:* INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> <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>
> 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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*Jan E.M. Houben*

Directeur d'Études, Professor of South Asian History and Philology

*Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite*

École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris Sciences et Lettres)

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