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Hirschmann Barbara, last updated by Stricker Marius on Jun 27, 2025
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Open access book publishers supported by ETH Library
MIT Press
The ETH Library has been supporting MIT Press's Direct to Open (D2O) programme since 2022. With D2O, part of the publisher's books will be transferred from the traditional purchasing model to a collaborative open access model supported by libraries around the world. Authors are not charged for the open access publication of books under the programme.
Open Book Publishers
The ETH Library supports the independent book publisher Open Book Publishers with a membership. Authors generally do not pay publication fees to this publishing house. Our membership is a contribution to support this non BPC-based business model.
SCOAP3 Books
SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), based at CERN, supports studies in the field of high-energy physics. The ETH Library supports the "SCOAP3 for Books" initiative, which has so far made 134 books on high-energy physics freely accessible in a consortial financing model.
Further information: SCOAP3 Books
Funding of Book Processing Charges for other publishers
The ETH Library does not currently offer funding for open access books or book chapters financed through Book Processing Charges.
However, authors from ETH Zurich can apply for the corresponding funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation:
- Funding of OA books by the SNSF: This funding instrument is open both to book publications resulting from an SNSF-funded project and to those unrelated to an SNSF project.
- Funding of OA book chapters from SNSF-funded research projects
Self-publishing via the Research Collection
If you can do without the services of a specialist publisher for your book publication, you have the option of publishing your ready-to-publish book directly via the Research Collection, ETH Zurich's repository. You will benefit from the following services of the ETH Library:
- Your book automatically receives a citable Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which you can obtain in advance if required.
- Findability in Google Scholar and other search engines is guaranteed
- You will see daily download statistics, cited-by-counts from Web of Science and Scopus as well as altmetrics (mentions in blogs and social media) for your book.
- Optionally, you can apply for an ISBN for your book free of charge
You can find help on preparing your publication in the Research Collection manual, for example on the page Creating PDF files.
Self-archiving via the Research Collection
If you publish your book "closed access" (without free access) with a publisher, you can self-archive an open access version of the book or parts of if via the Research Collection.
The prerequisite for self-archiving is that you retain the corresponding usage right in the publication contract with the publisher.
Some publishers also have standard policies for self-archiving of books indexed in the Open policy finder database.
