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 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.

The original goal of 100 supporting institutions has been reached successfully! However, Language Science Press would like to give more libraries & institutions the opportunity to support this initiative. Therefore, 15 more slots have been opened which will enable LSP to publish even more than the original amount of 90 titles and, additionally, provide more extensive support for authors or subfields, create nice maps and other services. You can find the supporting institutions on this page below.