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Science Press 2021 – 2023
Science Press 2021 – 2023
Renewal of successful 3-year model
Led by the renowned linguistic scholars Stefan Müller (Humboldt-Universität Berlin) and Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History), Language Science Press (LSP) publishes high quality, peer-reviewed Open Access books in the fields of linguistics. By leveraging existing institutional infrastructures and utilising highly efficient work processes, Language Science Press titles are offered at significantly lower prices compared to traditional publishers. At the same time, these titles are made freely accessible to readers worldwide, broadening the impact of the works.
Language Science Press publishes fully Open Access books under CC-BY. They are a community-based worldwide organisation with supporters from MIT, Harvard, Yale, Zurich, Berlin, Sydney, Hong Kong, and others. To name but a few, Noam Chomsky, Adele Goldberg, and Steven Pinker have all lent their support to Language Science Press and the library partnership model set up by Knowledge Unlatched.
LSP is the leading academic-led Open Access initiative in the field of Linguistics and much of its success is due to the very active community of linguists, now totalling over 1,000 members. The community has also played an active role in promoting the Language Science Press initiative to institutions worldwide. Thanks to the cooperative financing model, there are no publishing costs to authors as these are covered by the funding from institutions from all over the world.
Thanks to library support in 2017 a total of 115 books can be made available Open Access over the period of 2018 – 2020.
Due to the success of the first round, and in order to promote a sustainable model, we are pleased to announce the renewal of the initiative into a second round and invite libraries and institutions to support the LSP initiative once more. With your help LSP will be able to unlatch 30 new books per year over the time period of 2021 – 2023. The model remains the same as in the first round, with no author-facing charges thanks to the funding by libraries.
Why Support Language Science Press?
Cooperative Model
The Benefits
Pricing Structure
Cooperative Model
Through Knowledge Unlatched, Language Science Press seeks to raise enough financial support from libraries, institutions, and individuals for a period of three years.
With this support, Language Science Press can make 30 titles per year freely available to readers all around the world, completely free of any author-facing charges.
The Benefits
Low Price per Title
The amount of support per institution translates to €33.33 for an online version of a title (DRM-free). This represents about a 50% discount compared to traditional multi-user license deals.
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Support a New Way of Publishing
Language Science Press is a new, innovative way of publishing. You can support a way for scholars to take back control of publishing. Your researchers can submit and publish Open Access without any BPC charges.
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High Quality Content
Language Science Press has a unique network of reputable scholars who are already publishing with them. With your support you will make 90 new titles in linguistics with assured quality accessible to your readers.
Pricing Structure
Price per year over a period of 3 years. (Price excl. VAT)
115 slots available for libraries & institutions at:
$ 1,120 / € 1,000 / £ 880
