I read the report. The Association of University Presses finds that University Presses are providing great value and that their average cost per book is 20,000$. Of these, 15,000$ are covered by subsidies and the rest via prints sales etc.

They report 50% of book costs are overhead and acquisition. Work directly related to the creation of a book…[Read more]

We have recently discovered that pdfs produced with LaTeX have a certain treatment that does not interface well with common screenreaders for visually impaired people. Fixing this is actually a major project and will get pretty gory. We will not have the funds available at LangSci to do this on our own, but we might apply for some funding. If you…[Read more]

Hi Emma,

see here:

https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/22

https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/25

https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/144

Former versions are available for reference. We provide back and forward links between the versions. Superseded book have a different cover image. We strive to have backlinks in the DOIs as well. We…[Read more]

I seem to have trouble with that Zotero group. In any case, here are two references which could be incorporated there:

Nordhoff, Sebastian. (2018). Cookbook for Open Access books. Berlin: Language Science Press. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1286925

Nordhoff, Sebastian. (2018). Language Science Press business model. Berlin: Language Science…[Read more]

FWIW, our bookdownload figures are available from here as csv: https://github.com/langsci/opendata/blob/master/bookdownloads/langscidownloads.csv

We made some analyses, but they are not really conclusive:

Downloads over time: https://userblogs.fu-berlin.de/langsci-press/2015/08/12/access-stats-for-open-access-books/

Difference between OMP…[Read more]

I had a look at @scholtom‘s report. Very nice work. The section on “subscribe-to-open” lists Language Science Press. I am not sure this is 100% correct. LangSci never had closed content, so we could not possibly do a transition, and we can also not threaten to revert back to that. I can see how we ended up there, but the model is slightly…[Read more]