Language Science Press
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 the Creative Commons Attribution license (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 90 books have been made available Open Access in the period between 2018 and 2020. And thanks to library support in 2020, another 90 books will be published Open access in the period between 2021 and 2023.
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):
$ 1,120 / € 1,000 / £ 880
Supporting Institutions
| Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg / University of Freiburg | National Library of Sweden | Université de Neuchâtel (University of Neuchâtel) |
| Arkansas State University-Main Campus | New York University | Université de Rouen (University of Rouen) |
| ASLAN (Advanced Studies in LANguage complexity) | Newcastle University | Université de Tours (University of Tours) |
| Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire Lausanne (BCU Lausanne) (University of Lausanne) | Northwestern University | Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7) |
| Bibliothèque Universitaire des Langues et Civilisations (BULAC) | Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) | Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 |
| Brigham Young University | Palacký University, Olomouc | Universiteit Antwerpen |
| Carl von Ossietzky-Universität (University of Oldenburg) | Pennsylvania State University | University Libraries Netherlands (UKB) |
| Case Western Reserve University | Purdue University | University of Amsterdam |
| Claremont Colleges | Queen Mary University of London | University of Arizona |
| CNRS Centre Haudricourt (LLACAN, LACITO, SEDYL) | Queensland University of Technology | University of Barcelona / Universitat de Barcelona |
| CNRS-Fédération de Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques | Radboud University Nijmegen | University of California, Berkeley |
| Cornell University | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (University of Bonn) | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (University of Tübingen) | Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) (University of Bochum) | University of California, Merced |
| Freie Universität Berlin (FU) (Free University of Berlin) | Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek (University of the Saarland) | University of California, San Diego |
| Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena/ThULB Jena (University of Jena) | SIL International | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Georg-August-Universität (University of Göttingen) | Simon Fraser University | University of Cambridge |
| Ghent University | SLUB Dresden (Technical University of Dresden) | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Goethe-Universität-Frankfurt/M (University of Frankfurt am Main) | SOAS University of London | University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu and Kuopio |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover/TIB Hannover (University of Hannover) | Staats- und Universitäts-bibliothek Bremen (State and University Library Bremen) | University of Edinburgh |
| Hanyang University, Seoul | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library) | University of Gothenburg |
| Harvard University | State University of New York at Buffalo | University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) |
| Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Stockholm University | University of Hawaii At Manoa |
| Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Humboldt University of Berlin) | Syracuse University | University of Helsinki |
| IDS Mannheim (Institute for the German Language) | The British Library | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | The University of Sydney | University of Kentucky |
| Indiana University at Bloomington | Tilburg University | University of Malta Library |
| Johns Hopkins University | UiT The Arctic University of Norway | University of Manchester |
| Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (University of Giessen) | Universität Duisburg-Essen (University of Duisburg-Essen) | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (University of Graz) | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (University and State Library Düsseldorf) | University of Melbourne |
| Karlstad University | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster (University of Munster) | University of Michigan - Ann Arbor |
| Kenyon College | Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln (University of Cologne) | University of Missouri Columbia |
| KU Leuven | Universitätsbibliothek Basel (University of Basel) | University of Oregon |
| La Trobe University | Universitätsbibliothek Bern (University of Berne) | University of Oslo |
| Labex EFL (Empirical Foundations of Linguistics) | Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld (University of Bielefeld) | University of Rhode Island |
| Lancaster University | Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU University Erlangen-Nürnberg) | University of Rochester |
| Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) (Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics Library) | Universitätsbibliothek Kiel (Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel) | University of Saskatchewan |
| Leiden University | Universitätsbibliothek Koblenz-Landau (University of Koblenz-Landau) | University of Sheffield |
| Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich) | Universitätsbibliothek Konstanz (University of Konstanz) | University of Surrey |
| Macalester College | Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig (University of Leipzig) | University of Tartu |
| Macquarie University | Universitätsbibliothek Mainz (University of Mainz) | University of Texas at Austin |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Universitätsbibliothek Marburg (University of Marburg) | University of Texas System |
| Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) | Universitätsbibliothek Osnabrück (University of Osnabrück) | University of the West of England |
| Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg (University of Regensburg) | University of Virginia |
| Max-Planck-Institut für Menschheitsgeschichte (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) | Universitätsbibliothek St. Gallen (University of St. Gallen) | University of Washington |
| McGill University | Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg (University of Wuerzburg) | Yale University |
| McMaster University | Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg (University of Wuerzburg) | Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Central Library of Zurich / University of Zürich) |
| Meertens Instituut / KNAW | Université de Liège | Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Central Library of Zurich / University of Zürich) |
