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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Subject: [INDOLOGY] about Routledge and Open Access fees
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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.
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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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
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