The Open Access Book Network has produced a video of Dr. Sebastian Nordhoff, Managing Director, Language Science Press telling us how open access book publishing is funded. In OA Mythbusters: episode 1 Dr. Nordhoff refutes the assertion that if an author wants to make their book available open access, they must pay to do so. Using the 160 open access books published by Language Science Press as examples, he describes a discipline-based – in this case linguistics – consortial funding model in which institutions come together to underwrite publication costs. As a result, neither the reader nor the author pays; instead authors and readers from Oman or Indonesia or anywhere can exchange research in linguistics.
