Book processing charges
Publishing Gold open access monographs
All books published Gold open access are treated in exactly the same way as any other books we publish, which means they are:
- subject to rigorous peer review at proposal and typescript stage;
- professionally copy-edited and proof read;
- produced with high-quality design and typesetting;
- marketed widely and highly discoverable.
Costs for Gold open access
Our open access monograph offering is a gold route to open access dissemination that requires payment of a publishing charge to cover publication costs. Our charges are dependent on page length as follows:
Format | Charge |
|---|---|
Rapid Responses and Shorts: Up to 50K words | £6-7,000 + VAT |
Monographs: 50-100K words | £8-10,000 + VAT |
Monographs: over 100k words | Available on request |
Chapter | £1,500 + VAT |
A 15% discount is available for authors from institutions with a Read and Publish agreement and 10% discount to institutions who subscribe to the full Bristol University Press and Policy Press Journals Collection.
We are understanding of the situation regarding government mandates, such as UKRI, and will work with you to ensure you can be compliant.
To discuss your requirements, including any funder mandates, please contact the appropriate commissioning editor for your discipline. Information can be found on our subject area pages, or you can contact Open Access Commissioning Editor Rebecca Tomlinson (rebecca.tomlinson@bristol.ac.uk) for any generic queries. We also recognise a one-size fits all approach doesn’t work for everyone, so for books we are happy to discuss flexible solutions. We are also working on innovative new models for both books and journals.
Green routes to open access for books
We facilitate Green open access routes as well as Gold. For more information, please see our green (self-archiving) open access policy.
OpenUP Early Career Researcher (ECR) monograph initiative
Bristol University Press are proud to be part of a collaborative project to secure funding for a number of first books by UK-based early-career researchers to be made open access. Six University Presses are taking part in this three-year pilot project which has raised funds to support making an initial 12 titles open access and the first Bristol University Press title will publish in October 2024. Find out more.