Authors

Authors are the heart and soul of TOME. Here authors will find answers to many of their questions about TOME.

How it works

If you are interested in publishing your monograph as a TOME book, first check to see if you belong to a participating TOME institution. (See list below.) If so, the best place to start the process is by reaching out to the relevant point of contact at your institution, who may be in the library, a college, or another academic unit on campus such as a center for the humanities. Ultimately, each institution establishes its own rules for selecting TOME volumes, so you will need to be sure that you are eligible under your institution’s rules.

Next, check the list of participating TOME presses (see list below.) to see if your publisher or prospective publisher is on the list. If so, you may speak with your press editor (or prospective editor) about TOME. Explain that your institution is participating in TOME and that you are eligible to receive a TOME grant. You can raise the subject at any time in the publisher’s review process but bear in mind that TOME grants are not awarded until the manuscript has undergone the same procedures for peer review and met the same editorial standards as the publisher’s other scholarly books.

If your monograph is ultimately accepted for publication, your publisher will work with the point of contact at your institution to formalize the terms of the TOME grant. These terms are in addition to the regular terms that you and the publisher agree to in an author contract. To receive funding, the publisher must commit to producing a digital open access edition of the book, openly licensing it under a Creative Commons license, and depositing the files in selected open repositories. The publisher is in turn free to publish (and sell) a traditional print edition according to the terms you and the publisher agree to in the author contract.