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

We had a very good experience publishing our Puṣpikā volume with HASP. 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

McComas Taylor, Associate Professor, Reader in Sanskrit
College of Asia and Pacific, Australian National University
Secretary-General, International Assoc. of Sanskrit Studies

From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces@list.indology.info> on behalf of Arlo Griffiths via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>
Sent: Saturday, June 3, 2023 3:59 PM
To: INDOLOGY <indology@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

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