Open Access
We provide Open Access services for peer-reviewed monographs, site reports, conference proceedings and edited collections. Our editorial staff will be pleased to talk to you about your requirements. The information contained in this section of the website refers to ‘Gold’ Open Access.
For more information about our editorial policies and process, please refer to our Editorial Process and Policies and contact the editorial team if you have any questions. To browse our Open Access books view our current collection.
Open Access licence agreement
We publish our OA content under a Creative Commons licence. Creative Commons licences allow authors to retain copyright in their work, while allowing others to distribute, copy and make certain uses of their work.
The standard licence agreement we use for OA publications is the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Most research funders requiring OA will accept this licence, but if you would like to use a different licence which permits a greater degree of flexibility, please discuss this with your editor when you submit a proposal.
Dissemination And Preservation
Your OA content will be available for free download on the BAR Digital platform, and on online repositories such as Google Scholar/Google Books, DOAB and OAPEN. It is also automatically accessible as part of the BAR Digital Collection, and the URL is deposited in the Crossref DOI repository, allowing citation-linking to the work.
In addition to dissemination through multiple e-book channels, the OA book will be archived with Clockss to ensure future preservation and access.
Open Access fees – immediate ‘Gold’ OA
Please note that the prices listed below serve as guidelines only. The price for an OA book is determined for each title individually, based on the number of pages, number of images and expected production costs.
- Up to 200,000 words approx. £6,500
- Up to 300,000 words approx. £8,000
Please ask our editorial team for an estimate for larger books or edited collections.
Contact us
For further information about publishing with us, please get in touch with our editorial team.
Phone: +44 (0)1865 310431
Email: editor@barpublishing.com
