[Air-L] Open Access for Academic Monographs

[Daniel Miller]

Open Access for Academic Monographs

Open Access can be just as significant for the academic monograph as for
journals. The Why We Post book series has now passed half a million
downloads (514,953). Of note are the numbers of downloads in lower income
countries ranging from Ethiopia to the Philippines where books might be
seen as prohibitively expensive.

We are now starting to publish the books in the languages of the countries
where the research took place. So last week Social Media in Emergent Brazil
by Juliano Spyer also came out as Mίdias sociais no Brasil emergente.

The book series is available for free from the UK’s first fully Open Access
university publisher - University College London Press, at
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press

Daniel Miller