While the open access movement began with scholarly articles, books remain the predominant venue for sharing humanities and social sciences scholarship. Publishers have been expanding over the past decade to make books open, and Duke Libraries has invested in initiatives to support more widely available scholarly books.
Supporting various publishers and initiatives for open books, such as MIT Press Direct to Open (D2O), University of Michigan Press Fund to Mission, Bloomsbury Open Collections, Open Book Publishers, and punctum books. See the full list of our OA book initiatives here.
From 2019-2024, the Duke Libraries awarded 3 grants per year to make Duke faculty-authored books open access as part of the TOME initiative. We are not currently awarding new Open Monograph Award grants.
Many university presses are now offering the option for the author to pay a fee to make their book open. These can range from a couple thousand dollars to over $15,000.
At the moment, the Libraries do not have a subvention program for books and cannot pay full or partial open access fees.
