Frequently Asked Questions

A single open-access charge, stated in the contract offer and invoiced on acceptance of the complete manuscript. It covers the whole process through to publication and permanent hosting. There is no charge for submission or for peer review. The figure, the waiver and discount policy, and the usual sources of funding are set out on the funding page.

Funding is typically departmental, grant-driven, or institutional. Full detail →

No. The Advisory Board that recommends titles is not told whether an author can pay or from where. Funded proposals are declined in the ordinary course of review.

A minimum of two independent expert reports on the proposal and sample material; a formal author response; further rounds where the revisions warrant them; a recommendation from an Advisory Board of researchers who see the reports; and a second review of the complete manuscript before acceptance. Peer review and the Advisory Board are separate stages. Full detail →

Reviewers are asked to report within four to eight weeks. Typically four to six months from proposal to contract, and four to eight months from delivery of the complete manuscript to publication. We will tell you at the outset where your book sits in the schedule and we will tell you if that changes.

Yes. A revised thesis is a normal route to a first monograph, and a proposal for one is read on the same terms as any other. Revision means rewriting for readers rather than examiners: cutting the literature review back to what the argument requires, reducing the methodology chapter and the referencing, and rewriting the introduction so that it states the argument rather than defending the research design. Tell us in the proposal that the book derives from a thesis, and set out what has changed. What we publish →

Yes, provided you tell all the presses concerned.

Ask. Our subject areas describe where our editors and Board can review well; they are not a rule. A preliminary enquiry by email is welcome. Contact →

Yes. Copyright stays with you. You grant the Press an exclusive licence to publish for the term of copyright. Rights →

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 by default. Readers may read, download and redistribute the book in full and unaltered, for non-commercial purposes, with attribution. Where a funder's terms require a different Creative Commons licence, the book is published under that licence instead. Licensing →

In the United States and Canada the NIH, NSF, NEH and Tri-Agency public-access policies apply to journal articles and not to books, so there is nothing for a book to comply with. Where a funder does set conditions on long-form work, as UKRI, Wellcome, Horizon Europe and the ERC do, we publish the version of record openly on the day of publication with no embargo, make the deposits the award requires, and publish under whichever Creative Commons licence the terms require. We confirm the position for your award in writing before you sign. Compliance →

Not for REF 2029. That policy applies to journal articles and conference contributions with an ISSN; it does not impose an open-access requirement on monographs, book chapters or scholarly editions. The requirements that do apply to books come from funders; UKRI's, for outputs published from 1 January 2024, is the one most UK authors will meet.

The REF's initial decisions indicate that a long-form open-access requirement will apply to the assessment exercise after REF 2029, with implementation from 1 January 2029. A book you start now may be in scope by publication.

Yes. Hardcover and paperback editions are printed on demand. Authors receive complimentary copies and a standing discount.

That depends on your institution and should be checked there. The review process and the Advisory Board's recommendation are documented for each title. Peer review policy →

Yes, without asking us and without cost to your students. Each chapter has its own DOI and stable URL.

Translation rights are held by the Press. Write to us with the language and the intended publisher. Rights →