Product Code: CURP16420824
In today's global market, it's more important than ever to understand the evolution of academic publishing. Rely on Simba Information's Open Access Book Publishing 2020-2024 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, Simba Information quantifies open access book publishing as a market segment. Simba used the information it gathered through primary and secondary research to develop a financial outlook for open access book publishing with market projections through 2024. This research was conducted in conjunction with a larger study of the overall market for scholarly and professional publishing.
“Open Access Book Publishing 2020-2024 ” contains separate chapters covering the market, notable publishers and programs, and issues and forecast that include:
- Simba's exclusive analysis of market size and structure
- Open access book publishing by discipline
- A look at key geographic markets that are pushing the development of open access books
- Simba's exclusive market projections to 2024 and more.
Publishers and investment professionals can trust“ Open Access Book Publishing 2020-2024” to provide the inside intelligence needed to evaluate growth potential, understand trends affecting the industry, and size up the competition.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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 Decline for First Time to $45 million in 2019
- 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
CHAPTER 1: OPEN ACCESS BOOK MARKET
- INTRODUCTION
- MARKET SIZE
- Revenue
- Table 1.1: Open Access Book Market Revenue, 2015-2019
- What is an OA Book Worth?
- Table 1.2: Mean BPC Charges for Select Open Access Publishers, 2017-2020
- OA Metrics
- Table 1.3: Directory of Open Access Books Metrics, 2015-2019
- Figure 1.4: Leading Open Access Book Publishers' Title Growth, 2015-2019
- Figure 1.5: Leading Open Access Publishers' Growth in Titles Added to DOAB, 2017-2020
- OA Funding & Mandates
- OA Books by Discipline
- Figure 1.6: Open Access Book Titles by Discipline, YTD 2020
- Book Type
- OA Books by Geography and Language
- Figure 1.7: Open Access Books by Language, YTD 2020
CHAPTER 2: NOTABLE OPEN ACCESS BOOK PUBLISHERS & PROGRAMS
- INTRODUCTION
- LEADING OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHERS
- Figure 2.1: Leading Open Access Book Publishers, By Total Title Count, 2020 YTD
- SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES PRESSES DOMINATE THE DOAB
- Table 2.2: Leading OA Book Publishers Ranked by Number of Titles, 2020
- Table 2.2 (Continued): Leading OA Book Publishers Ranked by Number of Titles, 2020
- Table 2.2 (Continued): Leading OA Book Publishers Ranked by Number of Titles, 2020
- LEADING OA BOOK PUBLISHERS BY REVENUE
- Table 2.3: Leading OA Book Publishers' Revenue1, 2017-2019
- NOTABLE OA PUBLISHER PROFILES
- Table 2.4 Publishers Ranked by Titles Added to DOAB in 2019
- IntechOpen
- De Gruyter
- Table 2.5: Publishers Ranked by Titles Added to DOAB in 2018
- Frontiers
- Bookboon.com
- MDPI
- KIT Scientific Publishing
- Peter Lang International
- Springer Nature
- Table 2.6: Publishers Ranked by Titles Added to DOAB YTD 2020
- Presses universitaires de Rennes (PUR)
- Table 2.7: Publishers Ranked by Titles Added to DOAB in 2017
- Taylor & Francis
- transcript Verlag
- Australian National University Press (ANU Press)
- Coimbra University Press
- Brill
- Amsterdam University Press (WRR in Dutch)
- COOPERATIVE OA BOOK PROGRAMS AND TRIALS
- Google Books
- HathiTrust Digital Library
- Knowledge Unlatched
- MUSE Open
- Table 2.8: Cooperative OA Book Programs, 2018
- Project Gutenberg
- SciELO Books
CHAPTER 3: 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
- Figure 3.1: Scholarly Professional Print Book, Closed Access E-Book & OA Book Revenue, 2017-2019
- Figure 3.2: Scholarly Professional Print Book, Closed Access E-Book, OA Book Growth, 2014-2019
- 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 3.3: Open Access Book Market Revenue, 2020P-2024P
- Open Access Books Forecast
- Table 3.4: Directory of Open Access Book Forecast, 2020P-2024P
- Assumptions
- Forecasters Optimistic Global Economy Will Recover in 2021
- Table 3.5: World GDP Projected Growth by Region, 2020-2024
- Revenue Forecast of Top 5 OA Book Publishers
- Table 3.6: Leading Open Book Publishers Forecast, 2019-2020P