Reflecting on Five Years of Open-Access Book Publishing: Successes, Lessons, and Next Steps for TOME
The Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) have published a final report assessing the success of their five-year pilot project to modernize publication of, and promote public access to, scholarly books.
TOME Documentation
Model publishing contracts and amendments for publishers and authors
View DocumentsDiversifying Readership through Open Access: A Usage Analysis for OA Books
This white paper by Springer Nature and COARD explores the effect that publishing OA has on the geographic usage of books. The analysis is based on usage data for 3,934 books, including 281 open access books.
Download the PDFThe Future of Open Access Books: Findings from a Global Survey of Academic Book Authors
A global Springer Nature survey of more than 2,500 academic book authors provides in-depth insights into attitudes towards open access.
Download the PDFThe State of Open Monographs: A Digital Science Report
Digital Science has today launched a report on the state of open access monographs. The report addresses the question of how we integrate and value monographs in the increasingly open digital scholarly network.
Download the PDFThe Costs of Publishing Monographs: An Ithaka S+R Report
In April 2014, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a planning grant to Ithaka S+R to develop a study methodology for determining the true costs of publishing scholarly monographs. The end result was this research report, published February 5, 2016.
Download the PDFDigital Publishing in the Humanities Initiative, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this initiative informs the Emory community about emerging publication options in humanities scholarship as well as subventions that support the publication of digital/open access monographs by Emory faculty.
Visit WebsitePresentations from the July 31, 2018 Meeting in Washington, DC
View the PresentationsTOME Meeting Summary and Next Steps
A report outlining the meeting summary and next steps from the TOME Summit, July 31, 2018, in Washington, DC.
Download the PDFParticipating Publishers
Name | City | State | Country |
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University of Akron Press | Akron | Ohio | United States |
University of Alabama Press | Tuscaloosa | Alabama | United States |
University of Alberta Press | Edmonton | Alberta | Canada |
Amherst College Press | Amherst | Massachusetts | United States |
Amsterdam University Press | Amsterdam | The Netherlands | |
University of Arkansas Press | Amherst | Arkansas | United States |
Baylor University Press | Fayetteville | Texas | United States |
University of British Columbia Press | Vancouver | British Columbia | Canada |
University of Calgary Press | Calgary | Alberta | Canada |
University of California Press | Berkeley | California | United States |
Cambridge University Press | Cambridge | England | United Kingdom |
University of Chicago Press | Chicago | Illinois | United States |
University of Cincinnati Press | Cincinnati | Ohio | United States |
University Press of Colorado | Boulder | Colorado | United States |
Concordia University Press | Montreal | Quebec | Canada |
Cornell University Press | Ithaca | New York | United States |
Duke University Press | Durham | North Carolina | United States |
University Press of Florida | Gainesville | Florida | United States |
Fordham University Press | New York | New York | United States |
George Mason University Press | Fairfax | Virginia | United States |
Georgetown University Press | Washington | District of Columbia | United States |
University of Georgia Press | Athens | Georgia | United States |
University of Hawai'i Press | Honolulu | Hawai'i | United States |
University of Illinois Press | Champaign | Illinois | United States |
Indiana University Press | Bloomington | Indiana | United States |
Johns Hopkins University Press | Baltimore | Maryland | United States |
University Press of Kansas | Lawrence | Kansas | United States |
University Press of Kentucky | Lexington | Kentucky | United States |
Liverpool University Press | Liverpool | England | United Kingdom |
LSU Press | Baton Rouge | Louisiana | United States |
Manchester University Press | Manchester | England | United Kingdom |
University of Massachusetts Press | Amherst | Massachusetts | United States |
MIT Press | Cambridge | Massachusetts | United States |
Medieval Institute Publications | Kalamazoo | Michigan | United States |
University of Michigan Press | Ann Arbor | Michigan | United States |
Michigan State University Press | East Lansing | Michigan | United States |
University of Minnesota Press | Minneapolis | Minnesota | United States |
University Press of Mississippi | Jackson | Mississippi | United States |
University of Missouri Press | Columbia | Missouri | United States |
University of Nebraska Press | Lincoln | Nebraska | United States |
University of New Mexico Press | Albuquerque | New Mexico | United States |
New York University Press | New York | New York | United States |
University of North Carolina Press | Chapel Hill | North Carolina | United States |
University of North Texas Press | Denton | Texas | United States |
Northwestern University Press | Evanston | Illinois | United States |
Ohio University Press | Athens | Ohio | United States |
The Ohio State University Press | Columbus | Ohio | United States |
University of Oklahoma Press | Norman | Oklahoma | United States |
Oregon State University Press | Corvallis | Oregon | United States |
Les Presses de l’Universite’ d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press | Ottawa | Ontario | Canada |
Purdue University Press | West Lafayette | Indiana | United States |
Oxford University Press | Oxford | England | United Kingdom |
Pennsylvania State University Press | University Park | Pennsylvania | United States |
Rutgers University Press | New Brunswick | New Jersey | United States |
Southern Illinois University Press | Carbondale | Illinois | United States |
SUNY Press | Albany | New York | United States |
Syracuse University Press | Syracuse | New York | United States |
Temple University Press | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | United States |
Texas A&M University Press | College Station | Texas | United States |
University of Toronto Press | Toronto | Ontario | Canada |
Vanderbilt University Press | Nashville | Tennessee | United States |
University of Virginia Press | Charlottesville | Virginia | United States |
University of Washington Press | Seattle | Washington | United States |
Wayne State University Press | Detroit | Michigan | United States |
Wesleyan University Press | Middletown | Connecticut | United States |
Wilfrid Laurier University Press | Waterloo | Ontario | Canada |
University of Wisconsin Press | Madison | Wisconsin | United States |
TOME Institutions
The following colleges and universities are participating in the TOME pilot, thereby sending a strong signal to their humanities and social sciences faculty that their scholarship is valued and worth promoting to the world.