Open Access Books

Manchester University Press is committed to publishing Open Access books. You can find all our Open Access content on our Open Access platform, manchesteropenhive .

The table below sets out our Open Access policy:

Options	Access	Licence	Inclusion of 3rd party material	Price
We are particularly interested in monographs and edited volumes. Typically textbooks, handbooks, readers or reference works will not be published Open Access. Please contact the relevant commissioning editor if you are unsure which category your book falls under.	DRM free PDF available from OAPEN as well as other formats as required by the OA funder. Retail eBook (e.g. Kindle, Nook, iBook) and POD print version will be made available for customers and readers to purchase	Recommended licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) We are happy to consider other licence requests. Please contact to discuss.	We prefer material that is already available under a CC licence or copyright owned material that is permitted to be reproduced under the same CC licence as the intended book. We can include non-CC licenced material if the copyright owner is clearly stated in the caption with a note that material cannot be reused without permission. The copyright page will state ‘CC-BY-NC-ND unless otherwise stated’	£9850 (+VAT 20% UK) for up to 120,000 words This price includes up to 20 images. In some circumstances, extra charges may apply. Colour images are used in digital editions, but black & white only for print. Please contact the relevant commissioning editor if you are unsure which category your book falls under.

*Find out more about OAPEN and Creative Commons.

Interested in Open Access publishing?

If you are interested in publishing an Open Access book with Manchester University Press, or have questions on Open Access book publishing, please contact the relevant subject editor:

Tom Dark ([email protected]) – Social Sciences
Meredith-Carroll ([email protected]) – Humanities

Open Access chapters

MUP do offer an Open Access option for chapters in edited volumes. Please contact the commissioning editor to discuss options.

Conversion to Open Access

Contracted MUP books can be converted onto our Open Access programme up until the manuscript enters production.

Self-archiving

Chapter self-archiving options

Monograph: 1 chapter
- Author accepted manuscript (AAM) – 18 months after publication on personal or department website, institutional or subject repository and social media sites
- Final version – no
Edited volume: each contributor can archive their own chapter
- Author accepted manuscript – 18 months after publication on personal or department website, institutional or subject repository and social media sites
- Final version – no
Archived versions must include a citation to the published version, including a link to the publication on the publisher’s website.
We encourage publication of book metadata (includes title, synopsis, keywords, etc) by authors. Please speak to the commissioning editor if you would like more advice on metadata requirements.

What can I archive?	Where?	When?
Metadata of book chapters	Anywhere, with a link back to the MUP website	From contract being signed
AAM of on chapter	Institutional and subject repositories; social sharing sites	18 months after publication
Final version of chapter	Nowhere	Never